Surgery Motivates return to Physiotherapy Career

Childhood surgery inspires Rachel’s physiotherapy journey as she calls for more people to return to practice: A children’s physiotherapist is sharing her inspirational story in the hope more people will follow her lead and return to practice. Rachel O’Sullivan was born with bilateral talipes (club foot) and had corrective surgery when she was five years […]

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Coventry University joins the Turing University network

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Coventry University has become a member of the Turing University Network (TUN) as it seeks to build on its growing expertise in data science and artificial intelligence. The TUN offers UK universities the opportunity to engage and collaborate both with The Alan Turing Institute and its broader networks in academia, industry and the public sector […]

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International DAISY Day Conference

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Coventry University will be the host venue for The DAISY Foundation conference which will also see parts of the two-day event take place in the iconic Coventry Cathedral. This year’s conference – taking place later this month – is titled ‘Why Nurses Stay?’ and is centred on understanding what drives retention of nurses and the […]

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Coventry University addressing NHS staff shortages

Coventry University has officially launched its new School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health in London as it aims to address staff shortages in the NHS and the care sector. The school has already begun delivering courses, building on its close relationship with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to now work with a range […]

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Results day advice

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Results day: Psychologist shares tips on making friends and transitioning to university.  Coventry University psychologist shares tips on making friends and transitioning to university A Coventry University psychologist has shared her top tips to help students make friends and transition to university life. The Higher Education Policy Institute surveyed more than 10,000 students for its annual […]

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Research Excellence Framework (REF) creating better futures

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Coventry University’s REF results show how our research is Creating Better Futures with real impacts across the globe. Coventry University has had its biggest and best performance in the UK’s assessment of research in higher education after huge growth in its ability to deliver research aimed at impacting people’s lives around the globe. The percentage […]

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New Co-Director for the Doctoral Training Alliance

Coventry University Professor appointed Co-Director for the Doctoral Training Alliance: Coventry University Professor Elena Gaura has been chosen to take on the prestigious role of Co-Director at the University Alliance’s (UA) Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA). Professor Gaura, who is the University’s Professor of Pervasive Computing and Theme Director for Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences, will use her […]

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Student nurse aiming to follow in the footsteps of her heroes

A student nurse has praised the ‘superhero’ nurses she worked alongside at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic and says she wants to become as skilled as them. Coventry University student Olivia Aston was inspired to pursue a career in nursing by her grandmother, who was a nurse at […]

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Coventry Uni and charity Mobility collaboration

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Coventry University has collaborated with national disability charity Motability to recruit and sponsor a number of doctoral candidates to undertake research into accessible transport at the university’s National Transport Design Centre (NTDC). The collaboration combines Coventry University’s strong tradition of design transport teaching and Motability’s objective to support and develop innovative solutions to meet the […]

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May Parsons urges BAME communities to get vaccine

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History-making Coventry University student May Parsons has called on people from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority communities not to miss out on their COVID-19 jab. Senior nurse May became the first person in the world to deliver the vaccine to a patient outside of a clinical trial but she knows the battle is far […]

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