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RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re-)use and management of European culture (REACH)

The three-year REACH project will establish a Social Platform as a sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration by a wide-ranging network of all those with a stake in research and practice in the field of culture and cultural heritage. 


CreativeCulture

The CreativeCulture project aims to expand the GameChangers programme to address educational challenges within the context of inclusive learning for learners from the rural parts of Malaysia Borneo.


Determining the performance of large biofiltration cells in treating contaminated runoff from a slum settlement and its reuse for urban food production South Africa

This project will determine the ability of purpose-built, large-scale biofiltration cells downstream from a large informal settlement to treat contaminated runoff resulting from dysfunctional sanitation and limited urban drainage infrastructure.


SHIFFT: Supporting Holistic “Innovation” and the diFFusion of Agroecolgical innovaTion

This project will look at how processes of ‘innovation’ in agroecology and food sovereignty – what does it look like, is it different from other innovation approaches, and how do agroecological innovations spread around? The goal is to support farmers, communities and social movements in developing approaches to innovation that can help to develop agroecology as an alternative paradigm to corporate-industrial agriculture.


Sustainable management of an Ethiopian rangeland for biodiversity and pastoralists

This project looks at how sustainable management of the Liben Plain enhances livelihoods and food security for 10,000 pastoralists, prevents mainland Africa’s first bird extinction and integrates biodiversity conservation into Ethiopian rangeland recovery.


OPENMED: Exploring Intercultural Learning through Open Education Practices across the Mediterranean

OpenMed ‘Opening up Education in South-Mediterranean Countries’, is an international cooperation involving five partners from Europe and nine from the South-Mediterranean (S-M) region (Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan). The project is focused on how universities from the designated countries, and other S-M countries, can join the action as community partners in the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of higher education. Open Education represents transparency, equity and participation. Such values are core in widening participation and building capacity in Open Education Practices, important to the national contexts of the Mediterranean countries.


CBiS presents findings of Tackling Financial Exclusion project

On 29th January 2015, CBiS hosted an event to present the findings of a large-scale project which aimed to form a comprehensive picture of financial exclusion across the UK.


Professor Harris Beider on 'The Big Questions'

Professor Harris Beider from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations was invited as a panellist  to the BBC TV programme The Big Questions which is broadcast live across the network from 10am every Sunday and covers topical issues in current affairs.


The 3rd Global Peace Workshop

The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University & Mugla Sitki Kocman University are organising The 3rd Global Peace Workshop.


7/7 Reflections

Ten years on from devastating events of 7/7, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University take a look at where we are now. A decade in reflection.


BT Tower Talk

From ethical hackers to the Dark Net: cyber security today.


Coventry University secure NATEP funding for Aerospace Innovation

The Centre for Transport & Mobility here at Coventry University, working with Muretex Ltd, are one of eight Midlands aerospace innovation projects to secure £900,000 match funding.


Senior Research Fellow Presents at US National Aerospace Conference

Dr. Dale Richards, Senior Research Fellow, Human Factors was recently invited to present at the American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics in Dallas.


How cities can connect people in poverty to jobs: full report now available

A full report from Paul Sissons and Kevin Broughton's research on 'how cities can connect people in poverty to jobs' is now available.


ESRC Keywords 'Ethics' Seminar: Findings

The recent ESRC keywords ‘ethics’ seminar has published a report detailing the findings of the session.


New paper from Mobility & Transport on ground-based support for solo-pilots

As part of the work of the Future Flight Deck Technologies project, an operational concept is being developed to facilitate pilots flying alone.


Partnerships for Peace - Dignity for all

On Monday 21st September Coventry city celebrated the International Day of Peace with an event bringing together the University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), the Cathedral and Cord, the Coventry based international NGO working for peace.


Breakfast Briefing on “The Mediterranean Migration Crisis and Refugee Resettlement"

On the 16th of September 2015, the Migration, Displacement and Belonging Research Group at the CTPSR joined forces with the Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (CRMC) to host the first in a series of Breakfast Briefings.


Dialogue in the land of Genghis Khan

Following nomination by UN Mike was appointed to join a multi-national collaboration with the Government of Mongolia focused on the social and community impact of rapid economic change


Alpaslan Özerdem to be honoured with International Peace Medal

Alpaslan Özerdem, Co-Director for the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, is to be honoured with the International Peace Medal of the Peace Corps of Nigeria.