Our year with sanctuary seekers at the community allotment
As the harvest season draws to a close, it is a good time of year to offer an update on how 2024 has been on The Haxby Road Community allotment…
Give a Gift: what do service users really think about the charities that support them?
Every year the Institute for Social Justice allocates funding to Community Research Grants – pockets of funding that facilitate projects between York St John researchers and VCSE groups. This year,…
Green Social Prescribing – YSJ Allotments
Earlier this year, Divine Charura, Professor of Counselling Psychology at YSJ, received funding through the Humber and North Yorkshire Green Social Prescribing Programme and HEY Smile Foundation to run a…
Report launch from the ‘Bring your Voice to the World Cafe’ event
In May, researchers at YSJ held a World Café Event in collaboration with Our City Hub at York Explore Library to find out about migrants’ perspectives about what research academics…
Researching the potential of green social prescribing to increase health and wellbeing
In this blog, Raphaela Berding-Barwick and Divine Charura explore ongoing collaborative research with diverse communities – particularly including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers – into the benefits of green social…
‘Awareness Translates into Action’ – LGBTQIA+ Asylum Seeker Research
One of the current research themes in the Institute for Social Justice is Social Inclusion, with a focus on the experience of asylum seekers and refugees. As a linguistics student…
Another Windrush in the making: EU citizens and the Settlement Scheme
In this blogpost Helen Trouille, Senior Lecturer in Law at York St John University, discusses the work of the Law Clinic at YSJ with the charity Settled in relation to…