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Is organic food diversity the answer?

Researchers from the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), have been awarded £100,000 by Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs) as part of a project to analyse diversity in food supply chains, governance and cultures.


Escape Racism - toolbox to promote inclusive communities

The project “Escape Racism – Toolbox to promote inclusive communities” has the main aim of building inclusive societies where young people are promoting the respect of human rights, combating racism and discrimination and acting as multipliers for their peers.


Rovier Verdi wins Coventry University 2021 'Three Minute Thesis' Competition

Rovier Verdi, a second year PhD candidate in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, has won the Coventry University ‘Three Minute Thesis’ (3MT®) competition 2021.


Escape from Empire: Agroecological autonomy in European peripheries

This presentation summarises Simon's thesis, which explores the theoretical meaning of autonomy in agroecology and food sovereignty and explores farmers’ autonomy in Cornwall and Calabria.


Connected and Autonomous Vehicles MTI Seminar

CCAAR's Dr Huw Davies will be discussing the impact of regulation on the development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology in the next in a series of free online industry seminars from the MIRA Technology Institute.


Seminar: using energy technologies to alleviate poverty in Nepal

Drawing on a number of the speaker's research experiences in Nepal, this seminar will present a novel end-user orientated approach to better integrate complex contextual factors which are often the barriers to energy technology adoption and sustained use.


Creating resilience and sustainability in flower supply chains

The project is undertaking various forms of research to better understand the impacts of the pandemic on the floriculture sector so that longer lasting support can be provided and to better understand the factors which help supply chains to be resilient during times of crisis.


TubeCrush Connected Intimacies

The TubeCrush as Connected Intimacies project aimed to explore the website TubeCrush, which allows people to take and share unsolicited images of attractive men on the London Underground. From this website, the project sought to study how such a practice is shaped by desire, digital culture, masculinity, and the urban space of the major financial city of London.


Chronic Pain: The Fear and Joy of Moving Webinar

A discussion panel with a physiotherapist, psychologist, dancer and person with lived experience of pain on the theme of ‘Chronic pain: the fear and joy of moving’.


The dynamics of sustainability risks in the global coffee supply chain: a case of Indonesia-UK

This event is part of the CBiS Seminar Series


CROWD4ROADS

The CROWD4ROADS project combines trip sharing and crowd sensing initiatives to harness collective intelligence to contribute to the solution of the sustainability issues of road passenger transport, by increasing the car occupancy rate and by engaging drivers and passengers in road monitoring.


Encounters

Encounters addresses and explores the liminal experience of walking through the built environment, where part of that experience is observing planted trees, and wild planting, where vegetation had sprouted of its own accord, particularly in the suburban setting.,


AME welcomes the next generation of engineers as demand for courses remains high

The award-winning Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME), part of the Institute for Future Transport and Cities (IFTC) at Coventry University, has recorded its fifth full cohort of students onto its BEng and MEng courses.


Pavilion

A collection of 14 paintings were included in the Pavilion exhibition.


Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The case of Nigeria

Dr Zainab Mai Bornu will introduce her research into oil and political violence in African conflicts, including a synoptic overview of a number of resource-rich countries in Africa.


Promoting agroecology and community water resources management in the tropics - lessons

Rose Hagen has a lifetime commitment to sustainable agriculture and forest management in Ireland and globally. She designed and is embedding an agro ecological approach in twelve Trócaire country programmes.


New PhD Studentships with Coventry University beginning in 2021

Coventry University is inviting applications for a number of funded and self-funded PhD opportunities for prospective candidates, beginning in 2021.


CULTRISK

The idea of the CULT_Risk project comes from the fact that there is currently a huge migration taking place into Europe. People from the Middle East and Africa come to Europe for a better and easier life.


Regular caffeine consumption does not change its performance enhancing benefits

Researchers from Coventry University have discovered that the affects of caffeine on exercise performance do not diminish the longer people use it.


TechSTER: Tech Students, Entrepreneurial Routes

aiming to enhance entrepreneurial and soft skills and behaviours of teachers and students in Higher Education Institutions