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Outstanding Research Supervision Team Awards 2020

This year’s Outstanding Research Supervision Team Award was presented as part of the Doctoral Capability and Development (DCAD2020) Online Conference.


Generations: Online Preview of Coventry’s Roma Community Exhibition

Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) has teamed up with the Belgrade Theatre to host a taster of an exhibition spotlighting Coventry’s Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) community.


Coventry University project powering Rwandan hospital as refugee camp locked down by COVID-19

A solar-powered electricity system installed in an African refugee camp as part of a project led by Coventry University is now helping the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.


Two-meters apart: discussing the impacts of a "loss of touch"

Researchers from the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University recently came together to discuss what a lack of touch means for us during the COVID-19 lockdown.


Coventry University research centre presented with prestigious gender equality award

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been presented with an Athena SWAN Bronze Department Award in recognition of its commitment to promoting gender equality.


Flatten the Curve, Grow the Care: Looking Beyond the Pandemic

Researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) have worked with a number of collective care, mutual aid and solidarity initiatives to support communities across the globe during, and beyond, during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Reimagining the Book Stand: Virtual Platforms for Academic Publications

Researchers from the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) at Coventry University are reimagining the book stand to highlight the possibilities of open access publishing during the pandemic.


The Living Classroom Film by GardenAfrica (GardenAfrica Films)

The Living Classroom is the cumulative result of GardenAfrica’s learning and work alongside agroecology specialists and training organisations in sub-Saharan Africa since 2001. GardenAfrica is a UK NGO that collaborates with in-country partners to co-design and develop initiatives that promote plant-based solutions to address everyday challenges.


AgroecologyNow! Agroecological Transitions-Transformations for A more Just and Sustainable Food System

In this Seminar, the AgroecologyNow! group at CAWR will present a framework they have developed for understanding and enabling agroecology transitions-transformations. This material is being developed into a book that will be published in the coming year.


Postdigital Intimacies Symposium

Postdigital Intimacies addresses important issues in how we make sense of our minds, bodies, relationships and emotional worlds.


Somatics Toolkit Launch Event

The Somatics Toolkit proposes physically engaged approaches to familiar research activities.


Water security and climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

High levels of rainfall variability are magnified in the response of river discharges and lake levels creating major challenges to ongoing activities to achieve water security in sub-Saharan Africa.


Investigation of the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Building Performance in the UK and China

Investigation of the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Building Performance in the UK and China


Feminist Research, Craft Theory And Virtual Materiality

In this seminar, visiting artist and scholar Dr Lynne Heller will give a talk about her research which brings a feminist perspective, crafts theory and collage methodology to research practice exploring the area between material and virtual realities.


Struggles for Organic Sovereignties: Networking and Conventionalizing Diversity in Latvia and Costa Rica

Struggles for Organic Sovereignties: Networking and Conventionalizing Diversity in Latvia and Costa Rica.


Domestics against domestication

This event is supported by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University) and the  Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange (University of Roehampton). How to uncouple the idea of ‘home’ from the realm of private life and make it an instrument to think and build public life? The starting point for this study day is the idea that the set of activities associated with organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a house constitutes a category in its own right. As much as the organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a polis, this category is not a given, but a field of struggle and imagination.


(RE)CREATE your entrepreneurship

The summer school will be open to students on a programme of study in the area of business studies to boost their skills in the field of leadership, risk-taking, marketing, business planning and start-ups


Coventry University works with ‘CoacHyfied’ partners with aim of developing hydrogen-powered mass passenger coaches

The Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems (C-ALPS) is part of a new consortium (known as ‘CoacHyfied’) of 14 organisations that will combine expertise from the higher education and engineering partners with the aim of developing hydrogen-powered passenger coaches and transport for public and commercial use.


Migration and inequality: time for a new story

A Coventry University-led migration project is aiming to tell the the complicated story of the relationship between migration and global inequalities through an animated video, recreated in six languages.


Bacteria can recover precious metals from electric vehicle batteries

Researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Sports, Exercise and Life Sciences have developed a new environmentally friendly solution for recycling electric vehicle (EV) batteries by recovering all metals in them using a process called bioleaching.