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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.


UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (UK CITE)

The overall project aim is to create one of the world’s most advanced environments for connected and autonomous driving.


Community Action Platform for Energy - The CAPE Project

Developing an interactive platform that puts Big Data tools in the hands of communities to explore what it takes to get communities involved in local energy projects.


The defence of new cultural centrality in cities of mega-events: the cultural legacy of Rio 2016

The objective of this research is to analyse the importance of culture in the city planning which is an indispensable way in understanding the local identities and its history.


Legacies of Sport Mega Events

The objective of the study is to identify the reason of anti-consumerism resistance that appear in Brazil during the World FIFA Football Cup and before the Olympic and Paralympic Games. To compare the movements from the perspective of the riots, protests objectives and the proportion of attendance can brings important elements for the organise committees of mega events in the futures and also, move forward the actions in the sport marketing and sport management fields. 


Measuring the Social, Making Markets: Imagining and Constructing Global markets for Social Investment

The project will analyse the (international) creation of social investment (SI) markets, addressing the following research objectives: What ideas and discourses support the different models of an SI market? How do different understandings translate into market practice? How do market practices travel across space and place?


FinCris: Responsibilities, Ethics and the Financial Crisis

FinCris seeks to enlarge the public understanding of the financial crisis and the understanding among officials, regulatory and consumer bodies of the ethical issues raised by the crisis, specifically, how responsibilities for what has gone wrong create obligations to some of those badly affected by the crisis.


Evaluation of the Coventry GP Alliance: Best Care, Anywhere: Integrating Primary Care in Coventry Programme

The aim of this project is to use a mixed method approach incorporating patient and public engagement to comprehensively evaluate across the three intervention sites.


B-Skills

The ultimate aim of this intervention is to empower mothers to breastfeed for as long as they wish. An associated increase in breastfeeding duration would result in reduced incidence of maternal and infant disease.


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.


‘Faculty on the Factory Floor’ featured in the Gatsby Foundation report on the development of ‘learning factories’

Coventry University’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) has been featured as one of five case studies in the Gatsby Foundation report which details the ‘The Opportunity for Learning Factories in the UK’.


The Centre for Postdigital Cultures welcomes Angela McRobbie to the team

Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) has appointed acclaimed media theorist Angela McRobbie as its new Visiting Professor.


Coventry University working with Coventry City Council to promote transport technology innovation in the region

The Institute for Future Transport and Cities (IFTC) is working with Coventry City Council and key stakeholders to showcase Coventry and Warwickshire’s world-leading transport innovation and rich heritage in mobility and transport design.


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.


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. 


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

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


Advances in environmental modelling at CAWR: research, development and future challenges.

Advances in environmental modelling at CAWR: research, development and future challenges.


Living precarious lives

Living Precarious Lives has aimed to better understand emergent precarity as a student construct. 


Pirate Care: Conference

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK invites you to its second annual conference, which will explore the phenomenon of 'Pirate Care'.


Agroecology in Africa: Where are we now and what are the issues and opportunities as we look ahead?

I work as a facilitator activist in east and Southern Africa in a number of different ways and at different levels. Sometimes I work with community-based organisations and at other times with regional or continental networks.