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This is the first of our talks for the Coventry University Global Masterclass Series.
In this talk Professor Simon Chadwick talks about the impact that the global recession is having on the business of sport.
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Oneyachi Wambo runs Score4Africa, celebrating the power of football to transform lives for the better. The Score4Africa awards ceremony is to celebrate African footballers and was staged at the House of Lords in 2008.
In this Coventry Conversation, Oneyachi talks specifically about the role of football in development.
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Ade Daramy is Sierra Leonese by birth. He is a journalist and broadcaster working in London who takes a professional interest in African Football.
This talk, which was recorded as part of the Coventry Conversations Africa Day, starts with Ade suggesting that football is the new slave trade.
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Tom Reeves is currently the Producer of ‘Breakfast with Andy Goulding’ on Mercia FM.
Tom began working at Red Dragon FM in 2002 and became Breakfast Producer in December 2004. He won the best Breakfast Show award at GCap Boot Camp Awards and In 2008 he left Red Dragon to launch a new breakfast show at Mercia, which has so far shown an increase in audience figures of 14,000 listeners.
In this Coventry Conversation, you can hear Tom talking about how to stay in the radio business.
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Chris Nathaniel runs NVA Management, represents Rio Ferdinand and is a host of African origin footballers.
In this Coventry Conversation, as part of Africa Day, Chris talks about whether football is the new slavery.
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Cyrille Regis MBE won the FA Cup with Coventry in 1987. He made his name at West Bromwich Albion and played for England five times. Cyrille is a regular visitor to Africa.
In this Coventry Conversation Cyrille talks to John Mair about his experiences as a black footballer.
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Andrée Woodcock is Professor of Educational Ergonomics and Design in Coventry University’s School of Art and Design. She is currently director of the Design & Ergonomics Applied Research Group (DEarg).
Her work has covered a range of areas related to putting the ‘human’ back into the design process. This includes working in areas as diverse as Car Design, inclusivity, gender, building design issues and much more.
In this lecture, Professor Woodcock discusses the importance of championing the user.
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David Brookes has spent over 30 years in journalism including roles as a reporter, page designer, sub-editor, chief sub-editor, assistant editor and editor. He was editor of the Sunday Mercury, based in Birmingham, from 2000 – 2008.
David has been editor of the Coventry Telegraph since January 1st 2009 and in this Coventry Conversation, you can hear him talking about why he thinks working in Newspapers is such hard work.
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Roger Cook is an investigative journalist, reporter and broadcaster. In 1971 he created and first presented the Radio 4 programme Checkpoint, which specialised in investigating and exposing criminals and con-men. In 1985 he moved to Central and created The Cook Report. The show is best remembered for Cook’s trademark confrontations with his targets.
In this Coventry Conversation you can hear Roger talking about being an investigative journalist.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV.
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Mike Blundell is part of a team of engineers and scientists looking at how we can improve safety, and the likelyhood of surviving, in helicopter crashes. Here he talks about the work that the HELISAFE team has been doing
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