Innovative designs of sustainable agro-hydro-health systems

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and Akademi Sains Malaysia will be holding a 5-day workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia commencing on 31 July 2017. The workshop is being coordinated by Professor Sue Charlesworth (Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University) and Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Halim Ghazali (Universiti Putra Malaysia), and will have contributions from other leading researchers. The workshop will explore the following research topics in relation to ‘off-grid’ communities.


Power to Change

This project aims to assess the social impact of small-scale agroecological businesses and food producing enterprises in the UK.


Developing an action research based approach for understanding local institutions and improving livestock-based livelihoods of communal farmers in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The proposed project brings together scholars from Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University (CU) and Department of Animal Sciences (DoAS) at Stellenbosch University (SU) as part of a knowledge exchange around action based research approaches that can be applied in exploring local institutions and livelihoods of communal livestock farmers in South Africa.


Exceed in Coventry

Exceed in Coventry is a three-year project providing tailored help and support to over 1,300 Coventry residents, enabling them to progress into education, training, job search or employment.


STAR Energy: Sustainable and Replicable Off-grid Renewable Energy System for Riverside Communities in the Amazon

This institutional link designed, implemented and monitored a pilot low-carbon based energy solution with a sustainable business model to increase energy security, reduce environmental impact and improve economic and health indicators for one riverside community. 


Suburb

This body of paintings continues Graham Chorlton’s research into the possibilities of representational painting within contemporary art practice.


Sexual and Gender-based Violence and Torture Experiences of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda: Health and Justice Responses

This research investigated the health and justice service responses to the needs of South Sudanese refugees living in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda who had been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and torture.


InoCardia: Contractome-AI

Contractome-AI’s combination of novel assay and computational methods improves early detection of heart contractility issues, helping avoid expensive downstream problems.


PROTAX

PROTAX is working to create new methods to prevent tax crime in the EU


MATUROLIFE

This project brings together Coventry University expertise in Material Science and Design to develop products that embed innovative smart textiles in order to support healthy ageing and independent living.


The Better Place Index

The Better Place Index (BPI) is a global measure for peace, prosperity and sustainability. It also identifies if governments do a good job.


Imagining the Future: Engaging young people on environmental challenges to create new and sustainable livelihoods in Algeria

The research investigates root causes of environmental degradation and connections to lack of youth livelihoods, youth disengagement or exclusion from public life, using political ecology, humanities and social sciences methodologies.


New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research: Social Innovation Management for BIOPlastics (SIMBIO)

A CBiS project exploring the social and environmental implications of bio-based packaging


SIMUSAFE (SIMUlator of behavioural aspects for SAFEr transport)

The goal of SIMUSAFE following the FESTA-V model methodology is to develop realistic multi-agent behavioural models in a transit environment where researchers will be able to monitor and introduce changes in every aspect, gathering data not available in real world conditions.


The Organisational, Financial and Human Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Christian Faith-Based Organisation Service Sector in Great Britain

CTPSR project funded by the British Academy looking at the organisational, financial and human impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Christian Faith-Based Organization Service Sector in Great Britain


Rapid evidence review on the causes and identification of individuals with specific learning difficulties (SpLD)

In January 2020, Professor Julia Carroll was invited to provide a rapid evidence review on recent research on Specific Learning Difficulties for the UK government.


SHAPES (Sheffield Adaptive Patterned Electrical Stimulation)

The SHAPES project has been funded for three years to design, manufacture and trial a self, or carer-managed intervention that could be deployed early after stroke to treat post-stroke elbow spasticity.


Datamining medieval medical texts for modern medicines

Combinations of natural compounds could be the result of empirical work by premodern physicians to produce efficacious remedies. However, quantitative analyses of how medieval physicians used the materials available to them to create remedies.


Interfaith learning in Christian and Muslim higher education colleges

This project meets an urgent need to understand how students at UK Christian and Muslim HE colleges make sense of religious diversity.


Don’t Dis my Ability: Marginalised voices from sport (Pilot)

This project investigates how technological tools, such as social media, may support or constrain people with disabilities in the development of their political interests and careers.