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CBiS hosts first network event on comparative Policy approaches in the Regional Development of the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) Sector

Led by Dr Jason Begley (SURGE) this Regional Studies Association funded research network is tasked with comparing and contrasting the development of the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) sector in three regions in which the participating partner institutions are located.


Dr Nick Henry and Dr Paul Sissons to to map and analyse data on bank lending

Dr Nick Henry and Dr Paul Sissons have won a contract with Big Society Capital, Citi Bank, Community Investment Coalition and Unity Trust Bank to map and analyse the newly released UK data on bank lending to individuals and businesses.


Working Together to Build Cooperative Food Systems

A special issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD), on Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives, has just been edited by CAWR's Colin Anderson and will be freely available during July.


Building an Urban Serving University: a social relations programme for Coventry

Urban universities are a huge asset for their home cities. They are catalysts for social mobility, investors in infrastructure and providers of extensive employment opportunities.


BES funded Jewellery Study makes impact in the industry

Prof. Marylyn Carrigan presented the key findings of her study into responsible business practices in SMEs, using the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter as an example.


CBiS teaching module in Local and Regional Economic Development

The Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) is to launch a new third year geography teaching module in Local and Regional Economic Development. 


Civil Engagement in Social Work: Developing Global Models

The overall aim of this joint exchange programme is to examine the role of social work (SW) and its engagement with civil society in supporting vulnerable members of the community. 


TOCASA (Trade-offs in communal areas in South Africa)

The overall aim of this project is to evaluate trade-offs between novel range management practices (intensified planned grazing, corralling and removal of woody plants).


Big Study for Life-limited Children and their Families: Study of West Midlands palliative care needs of children, young people and families

This was the first in-depth study in the UK of how well the needs of children with life-limiting conditions and their families are being met. It is hoped that methods developed in this study will have applicability to future studies in other parts of the United Kingdom.


Researching Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Intervention Programmes Linked to African Communities in the EU (REPLACE 2)

The REPLACE 2 project followed on from the REPLACE project which investigated the reasons why FGM persists in the EU despite years of campaigning to end the illegal practice, in order to produce a behavioural change model that could be applied to ending FGM in the EU.


The Experiences of Survivors and Trauma Counselling Service Providers in Northern Uganda and Rwanda: Implications for Mental Health Policy and Legislation

This research investigated the experiences of service users and providers of trauma services in Kitgum and Gulu, northern Uganda. It also examined their implications for mental health policy and legislation.


Reconnecting Producers, Consumers and Food: Alternative Food Networks

This project was one of the first to explore the motivations of consumers and producers participating in different types of ‘Alternative Food Network’ such as farmers markets, box schemes, and community supported agriculture.


Abracadabra (ABRA): Online Reading Support

Abracadabra (ABRA) is an online toolkit composed of phonics, fluency and comprehension activities based around a series of age-appropriate texts. The trial assesses a 20 week programme of lesson plans using the ABRA activities.


Dancing Bodies in Coventry

Dancing Bodies in Coventry is a Coventry City of Culture 2021 funded project that is being led by researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE). 


Work-Loop marketing assessment

A Pathfinder II Investment is intended to produce a fully viable proposition ready for seed investment.


Europeana Space: Best practice network: spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content (ESpace): Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot

Photomediations was an open source pilot project that sought to harness the image archive (with a particular focus on photography) contained in the Europeana portal in ways that put open and hybrid publishing into practice.


Pervious Pavement Designs to Control Urban Flooding and Pollution

In this project, Marshalls, the UK’s leader in hard engineered SuDS, asked the CAWR water research team to investigate new designs for permeable paving that improved performance in terms of flood management and water quality.


Coventry & Birmingham Low Emission Vehicle Demonstrator Programme (CABLED)

The CABLED project provided the opportunity for Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles to be made available to a wide cross section of real world users and collect data on their everyday use over a 12 month trial period.


Are personal budgets always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people?

This NIHR/School for Social Care Research funded project aimed to examine whether personal budgets are always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people. 


Turning a passenger train into an infrastructure monitoring train: a Trial Infrastructure & Algorithm Development (KEEPSAFE 2)

Building on the outcomes of the project ‘A KnowledgE Elicitation aPproach to understanding railway SAFEty’ (KEEPSAFE 1), this project aimed at creating a data-driven system-view of the railway overhead line infrastructure.