What our staff are up to

New article: Gendered Divisions of Labour in UK Select Committees 1979-2016

Do female MPs in the House of Commons gravitate towards different policy areas compared to male MPs ? This is the question that Dr Mark Goodwin, Lecturer in Politics, School…

The International (Virtual) Jet Set!

BA English Language and TEFL / Courses / MA English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics / Undergraduate / What our staff are up to / What our students are up to 8 Nov 2021 Emma S.

Andrew Preshous is an Assistant Professor in Academic English and recently ran a COIL project for Brazilian students and a cohort of international students from Coventry University. The project aims…

New Chapter Alert! Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process

BA Politics / BA Politics and History / What our staff are up to 12 Oct 2021 Emma S.

Politics Lecturer Mark Goodwin has a chapter in the recently-released volume by Siefken and Rommetvedt. Cover for Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process (2021) Mark writes: Rupert Murdoch being attacked…

Autumn Term Research Seminar Series 2021

Events / Uncategorized / What our staff are up to / What's on 1 Oct 2021 Emma S.

Please email Chris Smith on ac5356@coventry.ac.uk for Zoom/location details! Matthew Alford – title TBC - 7th October 2021 Matthew is an expert on the Hollywood entertainment industry and its links…

New Article: Sharing Silence – Death Stranding and Video Gaming During the Pandemic

BA Sociology / What our staff are up to 13 Aug 2021 Emma S.

Sociology Lecturer Marcus Maloney has written about gaming during the pandemic for [lock.on] a Gaming Journal vol. 1 (reproduced here with permission). Writing for The Age newspaper during the COVID-19…

Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: book launch

BA Sociology / BA Sociology and Criminology / What our staff are up to 15 Jul 2021 Emma S.

Dr Emma Sheppard, Lecturer in Sociology The recording from the launch of Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion has been released. I spoke at this event as…

Special issue of BERJ on right‐wing populism and education

BA Sociology / BA Sociology and Criminology / Uncategorized / What our staff are up to 8 Jul 2021 Emma S.

Dr Saba Hussain, Lecturer in Sociology Saba is a Lecturer in Sociology and a member of Global Learning Education, and Attainment (GLEA) at Coventry University. She teaches modules around Race,…

Research Talk: Three Recent Robots

What our staff are up to 9 Apr 2021 Emma S.

Please join us for our final talk of the semester, given by Tom Knowles (English, CAMC). Tom's talk is titled: Three Recent Robots: Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, Ian McEwan’s Machines Like…

Research Seminar Series: Indicators of disparity in the language of feedback

Events / What our staff are up to 22 Mar 2021 Emma S.

24 March 2020, 16:00 – 17:00 Sheena Gardner (School of Humanities, CAMC) & Siân Alsop (GLEA) Disparity of attainment between students and groups of students from different backgrounds is an…

Dancing World Politics: new paper by Associate Professor Felix Rösch

BA International Relations / BA Politics / MA International Relations / What our staff are up to 4 Feb 2021 Emma S.

Was dancing just pastime at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)? Seven European heads of state, with central three doing a kind of jig. c1815. Hand-coloured etching (British Museum) In a…

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