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Residents of Coventry and ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵshire are being invited to take part in the 2020 ESRC Festival of Social Science from the comfort and safety of their homes. The University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ has unveiled a fully-online programme of events for the popular festival, which has gone digital this year in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Professor of Sociology Dr Akwugo Emejulu has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading social scientists with the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Fellowships are awarded to academics who have not only made an outstanding contribution to research, but who have also applied their expertise to address current challenges in policy, education, society or the economy.

A showcase of work by Coventry artists, funded by the city’s universities and produced during lockdown, is now live for the public to view.

A showcase of work by Coventry artists, funded by the city’s universities and produced during lockdown, will launch online next week (Monday 5 October).

Research led by Professor Vicki Squire of PAIS is featured in Refugees: Forced to Flee - a major new exhibition at IWM London. The exhibition, which will run until 24 May 2021, includes an based on research by the Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat project, led by Professor Squire with a team from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, ELIAMEP Athens and University of Malta.

An approach to public engagement which respects grass-roots and community knowledge has an important role to play in improving our understanding of the relationship between traditional healing and Western-style medicine in low and middle-income countries, and could generate new approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance, according to a published in Medical Humanities.