YSJ, Academic Development Programme

Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research

Gender and Climate Justice in the Global South (York International Women’s Week 2025)

Temple Hall York, United Kingdom

Climate change is a feminist issue. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate breakdown and forced migration, representing 80% of those displaced worldwide (UN Environment). Moreover, women face heightened risks when taking action against climate change and ecological injustice both within and beyond their communities. Latin America has become one of the most dangerous […]

Discussing Decolonisation: Cultural Production as Resistance (including short film screening)

CC/101 Creative Centre, York

Culture has proved to be the very foundation of the liberation movement. Only societies which preserve their culture are able to mobilize and organize themselves and fight against foreign domination. Whatever ideological or idealistic forms it takes, culture is essential to the historical process. ― Amilcar Cabral, 1972  From West Africa to the Caribbean, Palestine […]

RIPPLE Reading Group – Climate Justice Education

MS Teams

RIPPLE (Research Into Professional Practice in Learning and Education) returns in Autumn 2025, beginning with an online reading group session on climate justice education. We will consider the following short chapters from The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jennifer Wren Atkinson […]

Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group 2025/26

MS Teams

About: The Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group (DDRG) is an internal reading and discussion group, set up and co-convened by Lucy Potter and Laura Key, to complement our ongoing public event series.  Whilst our 2024/25 readings focused on exploring the history and politics of decolonisation via twentieth-century anti-colonial thought, the readings for 2025/26 will be more […]

International Women’s Week 2026: Ecofeminism Workshop with Alexia Lizarraga Quintero (Amos Trust)

DG/016 De Grey Building, York St John University, York

Please note, this workshop is being rescheduled to later in the academic year. A new date will shared and this page updated as soon as possible. In the meantime, please join us for the afternoon symposium on 4th March and meet the Mexican land defenders from Amos Trust's Climate Fellowship via Zoom live-link! Women Land […]