Reaching across the disciplinary lines
Cath Heinemeyer and Ellie Steel report back on the ‘Collab in the Lab’ when Biomedical Sciences students invited those from other departments to find out more about their research on…
The Garden Project: Student innovation, concentrated on ecological, sustainable goals
Living Lab intern Hayden Costello updates the campus community on recent experiments, in collaboration with the Students’ Union, in creating a student-led café – including a takeover of St Crux…
Feeding the Campus: York St John’s First People’s Assembly
AJ Heritage, MRes student in Applied Linguistics and research assistant to the Ecological Justice Research Group, reports on the launch event of this year’s Living Lab – a People’s Assembly…
How Brussels Renewed My Hope in Humanity and its Future
Literature student Michaela Bosman, recently returned from a Pagoda Sustainable Global Experience internship in Brussels funded by the Careers and Student Opportunities Team, reflects on her transformative learning on the…
Planet Food York: a cafe for all
Living Lab bloggers Lauryn Wilson and Charlie Malbon interviewed Rosie Walker-Lyne, a third year York St John student of English Language and Linguistics who volunteers at Planet Food York. Rosemary…
The Circular Economy at York St John
In this post, student blogger Michaela Bosman (2nd year Literature) investigates the concept of a ‘circular economy’ and some close-to-home examples of how it can be key to transforming the…
Green Week – focus on the Living Lab
This blog post is written by Living Lab: Feeding the Campus student researcher Hayden Costello. A second year psychology student, Hayden has been engaging with students across the University to…
Red Tower York – helping the community one bite at a time
As interns with the Living Lab, Lauryn Wilson and Charlie Malbon had the opportunity to meet with Mike Calvert (the chairman) and Bill Hill (a CIC director) from Red Tower,…
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…
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.…