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Our Registrar, Rachel Sandby-Thomas, has been appointed as a member of the advisory board for HE charity the UPP Foundation. Read her thoughts on how this appointment supports our commitment to the University’s role as an anchor institution in the local community and region.

See how we’re working with Coventry City Council and partners to tackle inequalities and improve health outcomes across Coventry through research, as part of a wider £50 million investment across the country.

This summer, over 100 people took part in the Canley Parade as part of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre’s community project Playing Out. and hear from residents, celebrating an amazing day of community spirit, creative engagement and a love of all things Canley. Follow the link to hear from Canley residents about the day.

We’re looking for leaders, managers, and supervisors to share your views and experiences of leadership and management at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Come along to a listening session and tell us what it’s like to lead, manage or supervise. We want to hear from people across all areas and grades, no matter how long you’ve worked here, on what works well, what we need to do more of, and what support would help you to develop.

There’s been a great response from staff and students signing up to take part in the ITLR so far. If you would like to take part, there’s still time. It’s a fantastic opportunity to get involved in a strategically important university-wide project that will shape our next Education Strategy, and you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues from across the University. There’s more information about how to get involved on the ITLR website or come to a drop-in session to find out more about the roles available.

Join an introductory session on 3 November to learn more about the project-based Postgraduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning. Open to all members of staff involved in teaching and learning or supporting teaching and learning.

Support the local communities and research centres at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Take a look at the Volunteer and Research Participation forum to share and receive interesting opportunities to get involved. Current opportunities include the WITHIN study, looking for volunteers aged 18-65 with chronic pain.

At this seminar, ‘Queering the Pitch?’ Male Survivors and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’, on 2 November, hear from Professor Chris Dolan, Global Sustainable Development, about the multiple ways in which the phenomenon of sexual violence against men - and the realities experienced by the survivors produced by that violence – destabilise established understandings of how such violence works, who is victimized by it, and how and why it needs to be tackled. It then looks at how this destabilisation in turn challenges us to reconsider core assumptions about the relationship between data and intervention.

Explore the challenges that many women face in universities and how to overcome them in this from jobs.ac.uk, taking place on 10 November.