Creative Accounting: Evolving Mindsets for Business and Finance Professionals

The aim of this project is to investigate how, through performance-led artistic interventions and provocations, the creative arts and playfulness can best be utilised to change traditional mindsets and facilitate a more integrated approach to the business of accounting.


Identity and Governance of Bodily Extensions: The case of Prosthetics and Avatars

Prosthetics and avatars can both be defined as forms of bodily extension – one mechanical, the other digital. The project investigated what we can learn about bodily extensions by examining these two different forms alongside each other.


Capturing Stillness: Visualisations of Dance Through Motion Capture

The Capturing Stillness project places a microscope on the dance practice Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), in combination with motion capture and game engine technologies.


Performing Empowerment: Disability, Dance & Inclusive Development in Post Conflict Sri Lanka

This project examined an innovative way of empowering persons with conflict-related disabilities in Sri Lanka through a combination of dance and law that was pioneered and piloted by VisAbility, a Sri Lankan/ German association, in mid-2015.


The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution Research

The AIR (Air Pollution Interdisciplinary Research) Network is an interdisciplinary research partnership of African and European researchers and African community members, with the long-term aim of creating innovative, participatory solutions to air pollution and its effects on human health in low-resource settings in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).


The Library of Processes

This project investigates the various ways in which artists document reflections and experiences of working within an artist venue.


Performing Arts Advocacy Alliance

This project is a partnership between Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), OneDanceUK and Birmingham Dance Network (BDN). The aim of the project is to understand how small arts organizations, artistic researchers and local artists can connect with and influence local & regional policymakers.


Gypsy Roma Traveller in Higher Education: Influencing Policy

The project aims to shine a light on marginalised communities and attempts to bring those voices to the forefront and into the university.


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.


Research Capacity Building Programme in Pakistan

A capacity building programme for researchers, reviewers and the institutional research management of Offices of Research, Innovation, & Commercialization (ORICs) in Pakistan.


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.


DanceMap: Innovation Pathways and Policies to Promote European Dance Heritage at Home and Abroad

DanceMap is a pioneering heritage initiative funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation.


BRAID: Responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives

This project is part of the new BRAID programme, which generates key new knowledge on responsible innovation and creativity when AI is used to create, document, reactivate and conserve artworks and their archives.


Politics of Otherness in Contemporary Concert Dance: (In)visibilities on Stage and the White Gaze

This research addresses the experience of Otherness in Swiss contemporary concert dance, exploring the mechanisms of Othering/exclusion.


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.


Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society (RICHES)

RICHES is a research project about the change that digital technologies are bringing to our society, culture and heritage.


Somatic Performance Practices: Sandra Reeve and Ecological Movement

Developing a UK case study on somatic practices in performance, whilst drawing out information on ‘context’ as an aspect of somatic practices in performance.


Contemporary Dance and Whiteness

Contemporary dance is anecdotally described as a white field of practice. Although there is a growing body of arts research that examines whiteness as racial privilege, there is little that investigates the phenomenon of whiteness in contemporary dance.


Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions

Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions


Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political mobilizations (RTRANSFORM)

The project addresses a main challenge which is social inclusion with the potentiality of promoting education among Roma women and girls. The European Union has taken action to implement Roma integration strategies and sets of policy measures aimed at improving the situation of Roma and at closing the existing gaps between Roma and the general population.