COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Coventry University is well known for being ambitious and innovative, making a significant contribution to important global and societal challenges. Coventry’s new £100M research strategy, ‘Excellence with Impact’, builds on this trend and will transform the way we research by applying fresh and original approaches.
Named the UK’s Modern University of the Year by Times and Sunday Times (2014, 2015 and 2016), Coventry University has a reputation for excellent teaching and research, business engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship. It is ranked the No.1 Modern University in the Midlands (Guardian University Guide 2021), Top 30 in the World for International Students (QS World University Rankings 2021) and University of the Year for Student Experience 2019 (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019).
With a proud tradition as a provider of high-quality education and a focus on multidisciplinary research, the University has established a robust academic presence regionally, nationally and across the world. 92% of Coventry University’s research was rated as world-leading, internationally excellent or recognized internationally in REF2014. These results clearly recognise the quality and impact of research within the University.
The Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) a research centre within the Faculty of Business and Law. Through understanding the impact of organisations’ activities, behaviours and policies, CBiS seeks to promote responsibility and to change behaviours so as to achieve better outcomes for economies and societies. As part of CBiS, the Sustainable Production and Consumption research team focuses on the ultimate goals of living within environmental limits and the attainment of social justice, through the delivery of responsible business and ethical consumption practices.
Our research takes a ‘whole supply chain’ approach, examining activities, attitudes and behaviours at different points in the lifecycle of products. This stretches across from technical development and supply through to consumption and post-consumption.
CBiS is a multidisciplinary research centre within Coventry Business School. Many of our researchers hold an engineering/technical background whilst operating in a business/commercial environment. CBiS’s wealth of network of regional and national stakeholders including companies makes it ideal for dissemination of the outcome of the project.