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We’re really proud to have received a Bronze award for our Disability Standards submissions to the Business Disability Forum. Take a look at what we’re doing well and recommendations for further actions we can take to continue improving. Thanks to the Disability Steering Group, the Disability Taskforce and all students and staff who contributed to the submission through your feedback and input.

Great news this week that our home city of Coventry has been judged one of the top 50 cities in the world - and the fifth best in the UK - in which to study by independent higher education experts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, compilers of the QS World University Rankings portfolio.

Complete your mandatory annual data protection and information security training. It’s now available as a 30-minute refresher course on Moodle and is shorter and more straightforward than last year’s training.

Considering applying for academic promotion? View the new dates for 2021/22, along with application advice on our webpages. We’re also looking for volunteers to be promotions advisers to help support those interested in applying with the process. See what’s required.

Take a look at our virtual results celebration and see how staff and students came together to celebrate graduation in a very different way this time around.

It’s been announced that we’ve been awarded £2.6 million for international mobility, as part of the inaugural Turing Scheme to provide funding for international opportunities in education and training across the world. Find out what this means for our students.

See the ongoing impact of some of the projects Connecting Cultures GRP has funded and explore new initiatives and endeavours. Recent posts include a Realities and Dreams: Culture under Covid podcast, virtual reality for teaching arts subjects and the digitising of tokens from ancient antiquity.

In the Coventry Creates project ‘Reintegrate’, Honorary Fellow Reem Doukmak collaborates with artist Paul O’Donnel on using art to explore the re-integration experiences of refugees and host community into the social ‘normalities’ under Covid-19. Hear more about their project on the NVivo Podcast Series – Episode 28: Reintegrate - Drama-Based Research on Refugee Experiences.

Enjoy being outdoors - explore walks and green spaces on campus and in the local area, with maps of walking routes and sculpture trails in and around main campus.