YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
About: Co-convened by Lucy Potter and Laura Key, the York St John Discussing Decolonisation event series continues in 2025/26 with a range of guest lectures, workshops and panel discussions taking place in person and online over the course of the academic year. The series aims to facilitate collective exploration of the history, theory, politics and […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Wednesday 29th April 2026, we will host Dr rashné limki from the University of Edinburgh for an in-person workshop as part of the ongoing Discussing Decolonisation series at York St John University. Time: 13.30–15.30pm Location: CC/201 (YSJ Creative Centre, room 201) Workshop title: Decolonial approaches to knowledge production: This workshop explores the meaning of […]
York St John's Discussing Decolonisation 2025/26 summer finale event will take place on campus and online from 10am until 16.30pm (BST) on Friday 26th June. Building on last year's summer event, which was dedicated to building the decolonising movement in the North of England, this half-day event will explore decolonisation beyond, across and against borders. […]
