YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
The first event of our 2024/25 Discussing Decolonisation series will be guest lecture by Dr John Narayan (KCL) on the revolutionary history and theory of the Black Panther Party, followed by audience Q&A. This event also ties in with Black History Month 2024, the theme of which is 'Reclaiming Narratives'. *Image shows members of the […]
This reading group series has now passed, but you can find details for the 2025/26 Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group (DDRG) here. About: The Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group (DDRG) is a new cross-disciplinary reading and discussion group for YSJ staff and students that will run alongside our Discussing Decolonisation event series for 2024/25. The task […]
Please note this event is being postponed until January 2025. More information to follow soon. About: How should we understand 'decolonisation' in the context of higher education? Is decolonisation more about material demands or epistemic justice? Can we seek to decolonise the curriculum without decarbonising the institution? How does decolonisation intersect with other social justice […]
The third event in our 2024/25 Discussing Decolonisation series will be an in-person workshop on decolonising academic writing, led by Dr Amita Nijhawan. More details below. If you would like to receive updates about this and other events in the series, please sign up for our new Discussing Decolonisation mailing list. Summary: Decolonising Writing In […]
Decolonisation and Academic Futures: Postgraduate Research Panel Friday 28th March 2025, 2-4pm Call for Proposals: Calls to 'decolonise' the university are far from new. For decades now, students and staff have been pressing their institutions to diversify and decolonise curricula, to decentre whiteness within academic research and practice, to acknowledge historical and financial complicities, and […]
The fourth event in our 2024/25 Discussing Decolonisation series will be a guest lecture by Dr Luke de Noronha at the YSJ London Campus and livestreamed via MS Teams. More details below. If you would like to receive updates about this and other events in the series, please sign up for our Discussing Decolonisation mailing list. Abstract: […]
Decolonisation and Academic Futures: Postgraduate Research Panel #2 Calls to ‘decolonise’ the university are far from new. For decades, students and staff have been pressing their institutions to diversify and decolonise curricula, to decentre whiteness within academic research and practice, to acknowledge historical and financial complicities, and to divest from accelerating climate crisis, escalating militarisation […]
From racist policing and mass incarceration to increasingly militarised borders and surveillance systems, the logics of punishment, exclusion and control are fundamental to the reproduction of global racial capitalism amid today’s increasingly violent and authoritarian world-order. But what is the history of policing and bordering in relation to British Empire specifically, and to what extent […]
Join members of the YSJ Anti-Racism and Decolonisation Community of Praxis (ARDP) for an in-person workshop, on campus in York (CD/003), from 2-3.30pm on Wednesday 4th June. During this 90-minute workshop, we will work through the Decolonisation in Higher Education: Questions and Prompts (PDF) in small groups and discuss their implications for decolonisation within our […]
Dedicated to building the decolonising movement in and beyond HE, our 2024/25 summer finale event will take place on campus and online from 10am until 5pm on Wednesday 2nd July (see the event schedule below for hybrid options). The day will include an in-person workshop, hybrid panel discussion and livestreamed keynote by Dr Leon Moosavi […]
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 […]
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 […]
