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Centre for Creative Economies

The Centre for Creative Economies (CCE) investigates the formation and practice of creative economies and their outcomes for people, place, and planet. We combine social science, humanities, and arts approaches to provide innovative, transdisciplinary research on creative and cultural economies – for impact today and for sustainable and just futures tomorrow.

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Industry royally champions sustainable floriculture project

Professor David Bek is leading a project to reduce plastic, packaging and waste in the British cut-flower industry.

£6.75m programme to boost creative technology innovation in the West Midlands

Professor Nick Henry is serving as the Co-Investigator of CreaTech Frontiers - a five year collaborative programme to develop and grow creative technologies in the region.

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Creative Accounting

Our Creative Accounting project investigates how creative methodologies and arts-based interventions can disrupt traditional business mindsets and build future work capacity for uncertain and complex environments.

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New PhD awards scheme to support the next generation of arts and humanities researchers

30 January 2025

Coventry University is one of six higher education institutions across the Midlands selected by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to participate in the Doctoral Landscape Awards programme.

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