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Petals - FGM web app for young people wins Gold London Design Award 24 Nov 2016

In the Digital community category, the app, created to help protect young girls and women from female genital mutilation (FGM), has beaten off stiff competition to win a 2016 London Design Award.

Coventry Researcher Bastien Dieppois awarded Stanley Jackson Prize 11 Nov 2016

Regarding his last paper identifying the climate processes driving decadal timescale fluctuations in southern African rainfall and droughts, Dr Bastien Dieppois has recently been awarded the Stanley Jackson prize. This prize rewards the annual best and most significant contribution in oceanography and atmospheric sciences (including environmental and hydrological sciences) in southern Africa.

International Conference Attendance: Trust Team attend FINT 06 Nov 2016

CTPSR's Trust Group will visit Dublin in November to contribute to the First International Network on Trust (FINT). The theme of the conference, “Reaching Out”, is about challenging the trust research community to stretch their thinking and influence, to encourage wider participation in the community from practitioners and academics in related fields.

CTEHR Innovative Project Features in BBC's Terrific Scientific Campaign 23 Nov 2016

The Centre for Technology Enabled Health Research (CTEHR) have been involved in an innovative project launched by BBC Learning and the Wellcome Trust which is designed to get primary school children excited about science.

Leading Locally: Sustainable Food Tourism in St Ives – Event summary 01 Jan 2016

Read our research findings report and a brief event summary on our ESRC funded event: 'Leading Locally: Sustainable food tourism in St Ives' hosted by Jordon Lazell in the Centre for Business in Society. 

Professor Heaven Crawley joins the Overseas Development Institute 30 Jan 2017

Professor Heaven Crawley has joined the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as a Senior Research Associate to develop and strengthen links with the newly established migration research programme.

WREV Showcase 01 Jan 2016

Read all about our Warwickshire Rural Electric Vehicles (WREV) showcase event summary and download our report findings. 

CBiS Research Seminar Series 05 Jul 2016

Learn about our CBiS Research Seminar Series and how you can get involved.

ITS Market Watch: Valuable insights from 4 case studies across Europe 01 Nov 2017

The market for ‘Intelligent Transport Systems’ (ITS) is changing rapidly: topics like urbanisation, sustainability and digitalisation are changing the environment as well as the near future. Despite the investments in technology development and feasibility demonstrations, the systematic market penetration of ITS applications remains a major challenge.

Coventry University to play five-year host to UN academic council 01 Jan 1753

Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been selected to host the headquarters of the prestigious Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) for five years starting in 2018. The university’s research centre, which is based on its Technology Park and which specialises in trust, peacebuilding and human security, will assume the role of secretariat to ACUNS from next year. 

ALERT and the Human Wildlife Conflict Update 02 Jan 2017

Over a year and a half into ALERT and CU’s program to reduce human-lion conflict within Zimbabwe’s Matetsi Conservancy, the database of images captured on specially-installed camera traps outside selected homesteads is growing steadily.

The ‘SMART’ way of assessing the sustainability of English and Welsh farms. 02 Jan 2017

Holistic sustainability assessment of farms in the UK managed according to Permaculture principles and compared to certified organic and conventional farms using the Swiss SMART indicator system (Sustainability Monitoring Assessement RouTine).

The Other America: White working class views on belonging, change, identity and immigration 02 Oct 2017

This report presents an analysis of white working-class communities’ perspectives on belonging, change, identity, and immigration.

Europeana Space: Spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content 03 Apr 2017

We recently completed the project and received an ‘Excellent’ for the project in our final review. The project has been hugely successful and we are hoping to continue working with our partners on other projects.

NEWBITS - Through an improved understanding of ITS services towards innovative business models 02 Jan 2017

The European Commission sees an important role for Intelligent Transport Systems – short ITS - in order to enhance greening transport and improve transport efficiency, safety, and security.

What the Prevent duty means for schools and colleges in England: An analysis of educationalists’ experiences 04 Jul 2017

New report from CTPSR seeks to get beyond the polarised public debate about the Prevent duty to explore the experiences of ‘front line’ education professionals.

Five year anniversary of vital maritime security research at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations 20 Jun 2017

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations is celebrating five years of research into the developing arena of maritime security. 

Katharine Jones joins the One World Media Awards as a judge 30 Jan 2017

Katharine Jones has been invited to act as a judge for the One World Media Awards, Refugee Reporting category, 2017.

First responders in war-torn Syria feel ‘abandoned’ by international community 28 Nov 2017

First responders providing emergency aid to civilians in horrific conditions in Syria’s war-torn cities feel ‘abandoned’ by the international community, a survey found.

Coventry first university to receive top accreditation for PhD students’ training 21 Feb 2018

A Coventry University research centre has become the first in the country to receive a prestigious accreditation for the training it gives to its science PhD students.