Dancing Bodies in Coventry - Part 2

The Dancing Bodies in Coventry project has secured funding from Coventry University City of Culture Grants 2019-2020 scheme and the University Partnership Coventry Creates Funding Call to embark on a second iteration of the project.


Coventry Made Me

This rapid response project investigates how the city of Coventry and its various places have influenced the identity of creative individuals of the city – and acts as the inspiration for new work by the artist Mary Courtney.


Drawing Conversations

Whilst both collective and collaborative drawing is being widely explored internationally, both within and beyond educational institutions, there is surprisingly little serious research published on the topic. This realisation led to the first international Drawing Conversations Symposium, accompanied by the Drawn Conversations Exhibition at Coventry University, UK, in December 2015, and a series of publications.


Evaluating the potential of intensive grazing and corralling to enhance ecosystem services in Africa’s communal rangelands

This study seeks to quantify the effectiveness of these practices by measuring changes in vegetation, soil quality and wildlife and livestock use, associated with livestock corral sites.


Critical Pedagogies

Critical Pedagogies explores questions around alternative modes of education and how we learn and produce knowledge collectively. The research strand aimed to engage with the current scenarios in education and investigate the educational role of cultural organisations.


Enabling Students with Neurodiversity (ENTENDER)

The project aims to promote inclusion and support for students with neurodiversity in higher education in Argentina and Mexico.


Institution as Praxis

Institution as Praxis is a research project initiated by Carolina Rito that examines new modes of knowledge production and research in the field of visual culture, art, and the curatorial.


Getting THE SMArT VIEW, CoVeRed in Ontario: TecHnology Enabled Self‐ManagemenT: VIsion for patient remote monitoring and EmpoWerment following Cardiac and VasculaR surgery

Testing the effectiveness of an eHealth-enabled service delivery intervention, combining remote monitoring, education, and self-management training to optimise recovery outcomes and experience of seniors undergoing cardiac and vascular surgeries in Canada and the UK.


Financial citizenship: building financial security, capability and inclusion in communities

The project explored the concept of ‘financial citizenship’ and the extent to which credit unions are able to secure financial inclusion, financial capability and financial security of their members.


WhoLoDance: Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education

By applying Multimodal Sensing and Capturing Analysis, WhoLoDance will make use of advanced motion capture technologies to transfer dance movements into digital data in such a way that makes it possible to blend any motion elements within the motion capture database.


Green Entrepreneurs in Cuba – Evaluation of a collaborative initiative to strengthen Small Scale Private Sector Initiatives in Rural Cuba

To evaluate the project participatory action learning cycle and the focus on small scale entrepreneurship in order to provide guidance and recommendations to donors for project follow up.


An investigation of the impact of multi-platform media coverage of the 2012 London Paralympic Games and the 2015 Toronto Parapan American Games upon perceptions of disability (LONTOR)

The main objectives of the London-Toronto (LONTOR) project were to obtain a better understanding of the nuanced and sometimes conflicting attitudes towards disability and media/technology use in the context of mega-sport events.


Evaluation of Kairos WWT Prison In-reach and Post-release Floating Support Service for women

Our objective was to provide an independent evaluation of Kairos WWT prison in-reach project at HMP Peterborough and Coventry based Floating Support Service.


Developing novel ionomer binders for catalyst layers to address key challenges associated with green hydrogen production and utilisation

The purpose of this proposal is to establish a platform for research collaboration between Coventry University (CU) and Johnson Matthey (JM), aiming to accelerate the development and implementation of advanced ionomer binders for hydrogen technologies.


Female Voices in the Third Space: Researching Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in South-North Collaborative Online International Learning

This study aims to research the evolving field of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Higher Education (HE) through a Global South-North research project, focusing on female voices.


Push-pull agroforestry-fodder and insect-protein production in women-led climate-smart livestock systems in Botswana and South Africa

Marginalised women-led smallholder farmers who rely on livestock for nutrition, income, and as a safety net, often have limited capacity to mitigate climate change impacts on livestock productivity. 


‘Faithful’ Mothers and the Politics of Nurturing Future Secular Citizens

This fellowship will build a body of scholarship and a research network to explore the significant but unrecognised roles that mothers play in the formation of citizens and state-building, during and beyond times of conflict.


Scoping knowledge of gambling and gambling-related harms amongst international students

Across two UK universities, we will conduct a preliminary exploratory online survey with international students about awareness of and attitudes to gambling.


UK-France Hydrogen Energy Research Collaboration for Enhancing Research & Innovation

This project aims to build a collaborative partnership between Coventry University and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA).


Engagement collaboration: Water bonds to mitigate environmental risks

Water is indispensable for life, health, and human activities. As such, sustaining water resources and addressing their scarcity is an urgent global challenge.