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From the Grounds Up: The Coffee Shop Industry and the Circular Economy

This study aims to explore how businesses and consumers can engage in the circular economy, the facilitators and inhibitors for doing so, and the importance of these actions for sustainable economies and societies. The UK and Germany are used as two case studies for exploring how and why the coffee shop industry takes part in the circular economy.


The Aziz Foundation announces new preferred partnership with Coventry University

New fully-funded scholarships for exceptional British Muslims to study at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) have been made available by the Aziz Foundation for 2021.


Study aims to understand experiences of, and attitudes towards whistleblowing

A collaborative research study between Coventry University’s Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) and WhistleblowersUK aims to identify people’s experiences and analyse attitudes towards whistleblowing in the UK.


UK-Indonesian research consortium unite to address global challenges

On 25 February 2021, the members of the UK-Indonesian Consortium for Interdisciplinary Sciences (UKICIS) met to participate in the formal signing of the consortium’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), following the establishment of UKICIS on 20 August 2020.


Williams Advanced Engineering and GB Snowsports join forces in boost to Paralympic Winter Games effort

GB Snowsport Athletes, Sport Scientists and Engineering experts will apply ground-breaking motorsport derived techniques to Paralympic Snowsport preparations


Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place

The overall purpose of the research is to model a usable practice-based template for sensing the city, drawing on the city of Coventry (UK) as a case-study in the first instance. The template will offer a range of methodologies towards, first, engaging constructively and productively with urban sites using the sensate presence of the human body as the primary means of gathering data and, second, processing and presenting that data in innovative ways within a critical framework that assesses the city's habitability and sustainability. 


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.


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.


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.


New report calls attention to the range and contribution of creative freelancers in the UK

Creative United, a support organisation for the cultural sector, has published a report ‘Mind the Understanding Gap: The Value of Creative Freelancers’ based on timely research led by Coventry University.


Coventry University researcher presents at United Nations Energy Debate

A Coventry University researcher had the honour of being the only speaker from a UK university at a prestigious United Nations debate on energy hosted in New York.


RISING Global Peace forum to welcome key international leaders

The former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will be speaking about leadership at the sixth annual RISING Global Peace conference.


Peace means more for Coventry in 2021

Coventry, being the UK’s only City of Peace and Reconciliation has become more important for the city over the past 12 months, according to a recent survey organised by the RISING Global Peace Forum.


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.


Creative experts seek to create an advocacy strategy for collaboration between higher education and cultural institutions

Researchers and practitioners across the higher education and creative sectors came together as part of a Coventry University event to discuss opportunities for developing new research methodologies to support the cultural sector.


Migrants and the media: examining migrant voices in Britain’s political debate

This project explored the engagement and representation of migrant voices within the 2015 pre-election debate, asking how the voices and experiences of migrants were represented in media reporting and whether migrants themselves were able to have a say.


Correlation between the Zika virus and sanitary and drainage conditions in the Metropolitan Areas of Fortaleza/Ceará (Brazil)

The aim of this project is to investigate the relationship between mosquito-vectored Zika, inadequate provision of secure and safe potable supplies, drainage and sanitation. 


Multiphase Flow Metrology in Oil & Gas Production (MULTIFLOWMET II)

Multiphase flow measurement is a fundamental enabling metrology in subsea oil and gas production. However, field measurements exhibit high measurement uncertainty, costing industry billions of euros in financial exposure and production inefficiencies.


Consumers and Biodiversity Offsets: Exploring Diverse Perspectives of Corporate Responsibility

This study explores consumers normative and ethical preferences with regards to corporate responsibility (CR), and the role of companies in the governance of nature, in order to identify diverse consumer perspectives on CR. 


JRP-g15 LNG III - Metrology for LNG III – Metrological support for LNG and LBG as a transport fuel

The overall aim of the project is to enable the large scale roll-out of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied biogas (LBG) as a transport fuel.