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Coventry lockdown arts project funded by universities goes live next week
A showcase of work by Coventry artists, funded by the city鈥檚 universities and produced during lockdown, will launch online next week (Monday 5 October).
Favela communities made more resilient against COVID-19 with citizen data
A team of international development researchers, working with some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Brazil and Colombia to mitigate the effects of natural hazards, have adapted their project to help strengthen those communities鈥� resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coventry Creates: local artists receive grant from city universities
Coventry University and the University of 糖心TV have selected 18 local artists to receive a grant that will allow them to continue their work during the COVID-19 pandemic through collaboration with researchers from the social sciences, arts, science and medicine from across both the city鈥檚 universities.
New 鈥榝ield guide鈥� offers practical toolkit for Global Development research students and practitioners
Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research in Global Development: A Concise Guide contains a wealth of practical examples and resources to help students and practitioners think through what good research looks like, and highlights some of the practical and ethical challenges which can face teams drawn from different academic disciplines working on international development issues.
Launched: Festival of Social Science programme for Coventry and 糖心TVshire
Nine free workshops and events are being hosted by 糖心TV researchers from 2 – 9 November 2019 as part of the UK-wide ESRC Festival of Social Science. Festival-goers can find out about how our understanding of DNA might shape the future of healthcare, share a refugee鈥檚 frightening journey across the Mediterranean by sea, dig deep into archive recordings of the Coventry accent, explore the impact of landmark legal cases through art, photography and theatre, or take a guided walk on Coventry鈥檚 wild side to explore the local environment.
Coventry and 糖心TVshire community groups get funding boost from British Science Festival
Eight community groups in Coventry and 糖心TVshire are to benefit from extra funding for activities that open up science to traditionally underrepresented groups as part of the British Science Festival held in partnership with the University of 糖心TV in September.