Virtual Workshop 2: ‘Existing Intellectual Paradigms of HE and social mobility of women and minorities’

The network aims to examine how wider political discussions around nationalism, citizenship and international relations shape the identity of students categorised as minorities because of their religion, ethnicity or gender and their experiences of discrimination and equality.


Global Diversity Governance Postgraduate Taster Event

The Postgraduate Teaching Taster Events offer prospective students a chance to experience a short sample lecture; meet with course directors; and ask questions about studying Global Diversity Governance at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.


Peace and Conflict Studies Postgraduate Taster Event

The Postgraduate Teaching Taster Events offer prospective students a chance to experience a short sample lecture; meet with course directors; and ask questions about studying Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.


Maritime Security Postgraduate Taster Event

The Postgraduate Teaching Taster Events offer prospective students a chance to experience a short sample lecture; meet with course directors; and ask questions about studying Maritime Security at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.


Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland

Feargal Cochrane's urgent analysis argues that Brexit is breaking peace in Northern Ireland, making it the most significant event since Partition.


Energy For Development: unanswered questions on socio-technical design frameworks

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations is hosting a webinar by Professor Elena Gaura and Dr Alison Halford on the use of socio-technical energy design frameworks in the HEED project.


The Practicalities of Decolonisation: Beyond Rhetoric

In this presentation, Professor Parvati Raghuram and Dr Melis Cin explore the challenges of decolonisation within education sectors in a variety of contexts.


Lighting the way: solar lighting and refugee security in Rwanda

In this lunchtime webinar, Professor Heaven Crawley will introduce research from the EPSRC funded Humanitarian Engineering and Energy for Displacement (HEED) project.


Shrinking Civic Space: Resolution of Conflict in Anglophone Cameroon

In this roundtable discussion, the authors of “Shrinking Civic Space and the Role of Civil Society in Resolution of Conflict in Anglophone Cameroon” will discuss the project and report on the conflict in Anglophone Cameroon.


CTPSR Postgraduate Teaching Taster Events

The Postgraduate Teaching Taster Events offer prospective students a chance to experience a short sample lecture, meet with course directors and ask questions about studying at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.


Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The case of Nigeria

Dr Zainab Mai Bornu will introduce her research into oil and political violence in African conflicts, including a synoptic overview of a number of resource-rich countries in Africa.


Virtual Workshop 1: ‘Existing Intellectual Paradigms of HE and social mobility of women and minorities’

AHRC GCRF Minorities on Indian Campuses Research Network Event


The Cracked Mirror: is the BBC’s mission to “reflect modern Britain” distorting news and undermining democracy?

As Charter renewal looms later in this decade, how concerned should we be about the BBC and its role as a civic tool in democracy?


What’s at stake in the Julian Assange case?

In this public lecture, Leverhulme Visiting Professor Jake Lynch explains what is at stake in the struggle to keep Assange from being extradited to the United States, where he faces a 175-year prison sentence for exposing the hidden side of Washington’s wars of political and economic dominance.


Midlands African Studies Hub (MASH) Conference

Following the establishment of the Midlands African Studies Hub (MASH) in Birmingham in September 2017, we are holding a one-day conference at Coventry University on the theme of ‘Contesting Injustice: People’s mobilisation from below’ and invite you to submit a paper proposal. 


Research on Africa Seminar (CURAS 2018)

Across many departments and research centres in Coventry University are researchers undertaking varied and sometimes interdisciplinary research projects on Africa that aligns with the research interest and agendas of other fellow researchers. Thus, the idea behind CURAS 2018 is to bring together researchers in Coventry University undertaking research in Africa.