Designing ‘safe spaces’ for black children and young people in care placements with an emphasis on identity and voice

This project seeks to address the lack of research into the lived experiences of Black children and young people in care placements by creating 'safe spaces' for them and promoting their voice and discussion of their identity and culture.


Wildpluk: Promoting sustainable harvesting of wild foliage

Wild harvested foliage products are a significant component of the overall cut‐flower industry, with international exports being worth around $0.75bn.


From the Heart: Testing the Efficacy of Heart-Centred Contemplation

The project presents three novelties in meditation research by expanding contemplative science, retaining its original other/God-centred focus, and using techniques which include core elements of heart visualisation.


Playful Co-Creation: Building the Indonesia Higher Education Disability Union (I-HEDU)

The I-HEDU project, supported by the UK-Indonesia Disability Inclusion Partnerships Grants, is dedicated to enhancing disability-inclusive education in Indonesian higher education institutions.


The Development of a framework and toolkit to support a physical activity for health pathway in England

The aim of the project is to develop a framework and valid tools that support the delivery of physical activity pathways across England. Physical activity pathways support people with/at risk of health conditions to become more active.


Innovative Approaches to Evaluating Impact: Testing The ‘Evaluative Performance’ Method and Approach in Transdisciplinary Environments

This project will run ‘Evaluative Performance’ investigations in different research settings: Contemporary art, engineering and computer science, equality and diversity initiatives and anti-social behavioural interventions at live events.


YOUROPE - Visionary roadmaps: crafting an inclusive and participatory european democracy with youth and communities (Youth for Europe / YOUROPE)

YOUROPE is dedicated to reinvigorating European democracy by enhancing inclusivity and participation, particularly focusing on underrepresented youth and their communities.


Mental Health and Productivity Pilot

Coventry University is co-leading a group of health professionals, academics and business leaders who have been awarded £6.8m by Government to tackle poor mental health in the workplace with a focus on the East and West Midlands regions.


The Shape of Sound

The Shape of Sound, is an interdisciplinary exploration into the relationship between movement, touch and sound. 


The Embodied Experience in ‘Carne Digital: Arquivo Eva Schul (Digital Flesh: Eva Schul Archive).

The project seeks to explore the embodied experience of creating a digital dance archive and collaborate with the development of digital archives in the performing arts.


‘Strictly’ Inclusive: Co-creating the past, present and future

The BBC, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), are celebrating their centenary year with a series of new public engagement research projects, recently announced. This programme of activities seeks to connect the public with the BBC’s past, present and future. Coventry University are pleased to have been awarded funding to explore the BBC’s work in televising dance, looking at the impact of Strictly Come Dancing on public audiences and its recent focus on inclusion through dance.


Widening access and improving retention and career progression into the Paramedic Profession for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups within the West Midlands

West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) NHS Foundation Trust successfully recruited 10% of their applicants from black and minority ethnic groups in 2011–2012 but this fell to around 3% in 2012–2013, then rose from 6.0% in 2019 to 9.8% in 2020.


Solar Energy Transitions (SET): Inclusive e-cooking in sub-Saharan Africa

This project aims to conduct an early-stage techno-economic feasibility study to arrive at a financially viable and sustainable solar home e-cooking system that can power a range of appliances.


Dance after Lockdown

Dance and Lockdown is a small-scale qualitative study designed to generate richly detailed experiential data from two key layers of the dance industry’s ecology: artists and organisations.


RTransform: Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political Mobilization

Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political mobilizations (RTransform) addresses a main challenge which is social inclusion with the potentiality of promoting education among Roma women and girls.


Gypsy Maker 5: LifeStrings Screendance

 The Romani Cultural and Arts Company was the lead for the ‘Gypsy Maker 5’ programme a development of the highly successful ‘Gypsy Maker’ project.


Multi-Area Connected Automated Mobility (MACAM)

The Multi-Area Connected Automated Mobility (MACAM) project is a collaborative initiative. It encompasses a multi-city, multi-operator, and multi-purpose self-driving trial. 


Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL)

GILL will be implemented through an iterative co-creation approach structured on a four-phases cycle - understand, co-design, implement, evaluate - repeated twice to incorporate the feedbacks and evaluation results in fine-tuned and validated results.


A Floating World: Memory, Climate and Race in the British Atlantic World

Drawing on an interdisciplinary body of scholarship that combines the history and science of climate change with literary and cultural histories, racial theories, and feminist ecocriticism, this project develops a view of premodern climate change.


European Literatures and Gender from Transnational Perspective (EUTERPE)

The aim of European Literatures and Gender from Transnational Perspective (EUTERPE) is to develop a new approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of current complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities.