Research Cafés at Coventry University were first launched in October 2019, with an event held on ‘the Grass’ of the 3rd Floor of the Lanchester Library.
Since Spring 2020, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, these events have been run in an online format. We are hoping to return to ‘in-person events’ within the Library from Spring / Summer 2022, from which point we will offer alternating events as ‘in-person’ and online.
The overarching purpose of these events is to provide a format where researchers, in particular Post Graduate Researchers (PGRs), can discuss their research in an open forum of their peers. We welcome presentations with a general focus related to the undertaking of academic research, presentations typically last in the region of 20 minutes with an opportunity for audience questions afterwards.
The hope is that these events can provide:
i) a supportive forum in which researchers can discuss their work, with a view to helping foster a sense of researcher community;
ii) a means to promote interdisciplinary practices with presenters from a diversity of academic backgrounds;
iii) an opportunity for presenters to practice and refine presentation skills
Most Research Café events are open to presenters from any academic discipline and on any research related topic, though occasionally we also offer events with a particular focus .
These events are inspired by similar events run at other Universities, including Liverpool John Moores University, who published an article in UKSG Insights in 2018 detailing the value of such events.
Further Reading:
Stephan, K., 2018. Research cafés: how libraries can build communities through research and engagement. Insights, 31.
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