Humanities

‘Writing good copy and copying good writers’, Bruno Vincent [Research Seminar Series]

Events / What's on 30 Oct 2019 Emma S.

Wednesday 6th November, George Eliot Building Room 403 Come join us for a talk by Bruno Vincent (Five on Brexit Island), bestselling author of more than 25 books. Many are set…

The British & The Boers [Charlton Cussans, Research Seminar]

BA History / Events / What's on 30 Sep 2019 Emma S.

The British & The Boers: Settler States in Southern Africa at the end of the of the 19th Century Wednesday October 9, 4pm, George Elliot Building, Room 403 Join us…

Why East Central Europe’s flawed liberals leave democracy vulnerable [James Dawson, Politics]

BA Politics / BA Politics and History / What our staff are up to 18 Sep 2019 Emma S.

Dr James Dawson, Politics, with Associate Professor, Seán Hanley, UCL Originally published on the JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies blog The newer EU member states of East-Central Europe (ECE) were…

How effective are Parliamentary committees? [Mark Goodwin, Politics]

BA Politics / What our staff are up to 15 Sep 2019 Emma S.

Research by Dr Mark Goodwin, Lecturer in Politics, has been included in a Parliamentary report on the effectiveness of the House of Commons committee system. Thanks to the Brexit imbroglio,…

Guest lecture by Prof Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, 23rd September [Sonja Astley, History]

BA Politics and History / Events / What's on 15 Sep 2019 Emma S.

23rd September 2019, 5-7pm, Graham Sutherland Building Room 22 This lecture challenges the prevailing view in the United States that the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the most…

Charity Fashion Show Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse [Sophie Pavey, Sociology student]

BA Sociology / Events / Undergraduate / What our students are up to 20 Aug 2019 Emma S.

In June of this year, I hosted a fashion show in partnership with Coventry University Students Union and Coventry Haven Women’s Aid. For those of you who don’t know, Coventry…

TEFL Industry Visits – Hong Kong Field Trip January 2019 by BA (Hons) English and TEFL students Courtney Green & Jasraj Kalirai

BA English / BA English Language and TEFL / What our students are up to 5 Jul 2019 Dr Simon May

TEFL Industry Visits An interesting part of the trip that was specifically tailored to the two TEFL students was the industry visits that allowed us to get an insight into…

SPARK Festival- Hong Kong Field Trip January 2019 for Arts and Humanities Students (English and TEFL, Digital Media, Games Art and Music) by BA (Hons) English and TEFL students Courtney Green & Jasraj Kalirai

BA English / BA English Language and TEFL / What our students are up to 5 Jul 2019 Dr Simon May

On January 13th, students from Coventry University met at Birmingham Airport anxious and excited for the trip ahead, which meant enduring a long 21 hours of travelling to Hong Kong.…

Languages for Global Communication [Carlota Medina-Diaz & Pauline Maleyrie, English & Languages]

BA Languages for Global Communication / Courses / Undergraduate / What our staff are up to 20 Jun 2019 Emma S.

Great day yesterday at Aston University to promote our exciting new degree : Languages for Global Communication! Carlota Medina-Diaz and Pauline Maleyrie

ITV Breaking into News competition [Karen Bucknall, Sociology student]

BA Sociology / What our students are up to 15 Jun 2019 Emma S.

Sociology student, Karen Bucknall, was recently named Miss ITV Central News 2019 in ITV's 'Breaking into News' competition! https://mediatrust.org/youth-programmes/breaking-into-news/ Karen has been given a great opportunity to work with award winning reporter…