Fashion and Ageing

The ageing population has become a significant topic in the contemporary research agenda. The post-industrial economy of improved health care, leisure and bio-medical technologies has affected both the biological and social spheres of ageing, producing new challenges for individuals, policy makers and associated industries, including fashion. The need to better cater to older individuals’ needs and expectations is the focus of Ania Sadkowska’s resesearch.


Nonlinear flow states and turbulence produced by helical magnetorotational-type instabilities (Solar Studies)

 To investigate the origin of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable astrophysical flows by developing a nonlinear stability theory of helical magnetorotational instability (HMRI)


Compressive Population Health: Cost-Effective Profiling of Prevalence for Multi Non-Communicable Diseases via health Data Science

This project proposes a novel paradigm, called compressive population health (CPH for short), to reduce the data collection cost during the profiling of prevalence to the maximum extent.


Virtual Inclusive Cultural Entrepreneurs (VICE)

The Virtual Inclusive Cultural Entrepreneurs (VICE) project has 5 partners from 4 countries: UK, Sweden, Austria, and Croatia. Each bringing complementary skills and expertise in the fields of adult education, teacher training, post-digital cultures, archives, museums, and cutting-edge learning technology.


‘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.


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.


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. 


Bioleaching technology for the recovery of metals from Electronic Waste

Applications to Bioleaching technology to extract precious metals from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), whilst preserving the environment and preventing health-related issues worldwide.


Powering European Union Net Zero Future By Escalating Zero Emission HDVs And Logistic Intelligence

This project aims to demonstrate highly efficient zHDV powertrains for long-distance applications, in line with the European 2050 targets.


SE Recycling (SER) Bioleaching KTP project for metal recovery from EV batteries

This partnership with SE-Recycling is developing sustainable bioleaching-based processes to recycle metals from Lithium-based batteries. This sustainable technology delivers a solution that retains precious metals in UK industry, with wider economic benefits including skills development and job creation.


Scarborough Atlas (Design the Green transition with Scarborough Museum and Art Gallery – Knowledge Transfer Partnership)

Scarborough Atlas (SA) is the development of an online mapping platform which links digital twins of artefacts at Scarborough Museum & Galleries to trails and stories about the places and artefacts that originate in the town and across the Jurassic coastline.


Development of Bioleaching-based processes for the recovery of precious metals of processed waste from Superalloys

In partnership with AAS, Coventry University are developing innovative and sustainable bioleaching-based processes to recover critical metals from superalloy by-products at AAS. 


Understanding the role of prolactin on neuronal metabolism and its implications for gestation and lactation conditions

The pituitary lactogenic hormone prolactin (Prl) has well recognised physiological actions in humans and rodents in lactation and reproduction.


City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place Legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021

This place-based knowledge exchange project, led by Coventry University, was one of nine grants awarded as part of the AHRC’s wide place-based programme.


Hamilton Studio, Bombay: the first twenty years after partition

This project will digitise negatives, prints and documents at Hamilton Studio from the twenty years after Partition (1947-67), a period of change and political flux in India and of mass migration to the UK.


Evaluation of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

This project provides a profile of UK CoC 2021, its governance and direction, funder agreements, details of stakeholders and timetables, as well as a Theory of Change, performance monitoring, measurement and evaluation.


Surviving in a post-COVID world? Creative freelancers, business models and policy support

This project aims to provide updated insight into creative freelance business models in order to inform policy and support.


Own Art Gallery impact study

This commissioned rapid-response research focused on Own Art member galleries, a key segment of Creative United’s arts market activity.


The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands

The British Black Arts Movement (BAM) in the early 1980s was responsible for a paradigm shift in UK art history, bringing to the fore the issues, concerns, practices and aesthetics of marginalised artists.