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Living Lab: Burns Night

chef steve giving a talk

‘But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, / The trembling earth resounds his tread.’ – ‘An Address to a Haggis’ (1786). With words from the heart and enchanting melodies, Robert Burns’ renowned… Read More »

Category: Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Living Lab

Big Garden Birdwatch: help the Grounds team’s work for wildlife

In this post, Martin Ammann, new gardener in the Estates Management & Development team, invites students and staff to get involved with a citizen science project to help monitor and… Read More »

Category: Ecological Justice Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Tags: biodiversity, citizen science, feeding the campus, Living Lab

Introducing the Living Lab core student team!

The Living Lab is blessed with a truly wonderful team of student interns and student researchers from five different departments of the university. We realised we hadn’t introduced them yet.… Read More »

Category: Ecological Justice Education for Social Justice Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Living Lab Uncategorized Tags: #EcologicalJustice, #FeedingTheCampus, #LivingLab

Supporting Heritage Languages through York St John’s Community Language School

Classroom with Children

Did you know, over 1 million children in the UK use English as an additional language?*   In this blog, ISJ intern Matthew Peyton introduces the work of York St… Read More »

Category: Communities Diversity and Inclusion Tags: Children and Young People, Communities, Languages

Sustenance: A Fine Art exhibition as part of the Living Lab

The students and their lecturer seated at the exhibition's banquet table

This semester, a group of seven Fine Art students opted to join the Living Lab and make a collaborative response to issues around the food system, together with their lecturer… Read More »

Category: Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Living Lab Uncategorized Tags: Arts for Social Justice, Cost of living crisis, Ecological Justice, Education for Social Justice, Food poverty, YSJ Students

Penning Parenthood

On the 19th of November, anyone identifying as a parent in York was invited to attend readings on parenthood. The readings were by authors and artists. After this reading, parents… Read More »

Category: Parenthood Tags: Arts for Social Justice, Children and Young People, Creative Writing, Parenthood

Can Cinema Save the World?

This month we welcome our new ISJ student intern Matthew Peyton who kicks start his first blog post with a consideration from his area of expertise- the world of film.… Read More »

Category: Arts for Social Justice Tags: Arts for Social Justice, Cinema, ISJ Intern

Trapped by the System, Released by Creativity

Each year the Institute for Social Justice Student prize is awarded to a final year undergraduate student. The prize recognises investment, engagement and understanding of social justice issues in a… Read More »

Category: Education for Social Justice Tags: Arts for Social Justice, ISJ Student Prize, Prison Partnership Project, YSJ Students

Learning Outside the Classroom – and through the Living Lab

Education students at the York St John allotment trying nasturtium flowers

The Living Lab gives the core team chances to go visiting other departments and their activities – to give talks about the project, or support teaching. It’s a brilliant chance… Read More »

Category: Ecological Justice Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Tags: Ecological Justice, Education for Social Justice, YSJ Students

Psychology students in the Living Lab

Psychology lecturer Maria Fernandes-Jesus gives an insight into how her second year ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ students are getting involved in Living Lab: Feeding the Campus. The entire group of 105… Read More »

Category: Ecological Justice Education for Social Justice Feeding the Campus 2022-23 Living Lab Uncategorized Tags: Ecological Justice, Education for Social Justice, YSJ Students
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Living Lab: Burns Night

Big Garden Birdwatch: help the Grounds team’s work for wildlife

Introducing the Living Lab core student team!

Supporting Heritage Languages through York St John’s Community Language School

Sustenance: A Fine Art exhibition as part of the Living Lab

Penning Parenthood

Can Cinema Save the World?

Trapped by the System, Released by Creativity

Learning Outside the Classroom – and through the Living Lab

Taking film seriously: an exploration of cinema and social justice

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