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Westminster briefing for Coventry University professor

A professor in children and family nursing at Coventry University was invited to the House of Commons to speak as part of a Teenage Cancer Trust briefing for the shadow secretary of state for health.


Re/presenting Islam on Campus

Running from 2015 to 2018, the project analysed how Islam is understood on university campuses with a view to an open, informed discussion about Islam as an aspect of British life.


The Big Question: Should we talk to terrorists?

'The Big Question' series of seminars asks 'Should we talk to terrorists?' The latest seminar from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations featuring the panellists Christof Wackernagel, Jo Berry and Ross Frenett.


Julie Bayley Wins National Research Impact Award

Coventry University's Impact Officer Julie Bayley has won a coveted national award for research impact. 


The Big Question: Election 2015: How was it for you?

The Big Question seminar series discusses the 2015 election.


Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com

Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com


The mediated self

A half day seminar open to staff and students to explore the complexities of the self in our current living experience: how it is seen and transformed and narrated through the lenses of the contemporary cultures and media.


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.


C-DaRE Invites...Professor Roger Kneebone in conversation with Professor Sarah Whatley

As part of our C-DaRE invites series we are delighted to invite you to a lunchtime event with invited guest Professor Roger Kneebone. 


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.


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


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.


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.


(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


Space Tourism: exploring the business implications and research priorities

The talk will focus on the recent developments, early market indications and socio-economic significance whilst identifying interdisciplinary research priorities.


Virtual Reality Archive Learning - Teaching Skills Through Heritage And Technology

Join us for an online celebration of the end of the EU project ViRAL - Virtual Reality Archive Learning. We will be promoting the project and demonstrating the free resources and learning material we have made to be used for training and upskilling adults, using exciting assets from heritage and culture and new technology such as 360, AR and VR.


Disability sport and social change: An introduction to my research

Dr Brittain is an Associate Professor (Research) in CBiS. His research focuses upon historical and sociological aspects of disability and Paralympic sport with specialisms in Paralympic history and Paralympic legacies.


Leveraging bio-active plants in smallholder goat production

Dr. Lovemore C. Gwiriri is a post-doctoral smallholder livestock systems research scientist at Rothamsted Research involved in agricultural systems socio-economic analysis.


Unlocking Nature and the Outdoors: communities, race, gender and class

A growing body of scientific research identifies that spending time in green spaces or bringing nature into your everyday life can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing.


Economic Imagination

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) presents a panel discussion for 17, Institute of Critical Studies colloquium on Economic Imagination. Coordinated by Benjamín Mayer Foulkes, the colloquium “honors and gathers the fruits of the two decades of the Institute's life”.