Learning Outside the Classroom – and through the Living Lab
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…
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…
Introducing LIVING LAB: Feeding the Campus
The LIVING LAB is a network of students and staff from different subjects and departments, all collaborating to investigate a real-life, local, social and ecological justice issue, and work together…
As COP26 draws to a close, so does the #ClimateJusticeTakeover of the ISJ blog. Chair of the YSJU student Environmental Society Joel Flowers rounds things off by inviting fellow students…
From anxiety to activism: Eco-anxiety as a call for climate action
COP26 Day 9. Time is running short for agreement to be reached. A vital dimension of climate justice is generational justice. Psychology lecturer Maria Fernandes Jesus urges policymakers to move beyond…
Climate Justice – an (un)Reachable Peak?
As the eighth day dawns of COP26 the negotiations will be reaching their crisis point. These reflections from university Chaplain Jane Speck and Chaplaincy PA Sarah Mills address how to…
York St John University Carbon Reduction Plans
On the seventh day of COP26, Sarah Williams, the university’s Energy and Environmental Projects Officer, provides an update on how the university is working towards minimising its own carbon emissions. …
The YSJ Curriculum in Response to the Climate Emergency
COP26, Day 6. YSJU Human Geography student Sophie Blackburn shares her findings from her work as a Student as Researcher on the ‘YSJU Students and Ecological Justice’ project (2019-21). Through…
Climate Justice – The Blockbuster
As the fifth day of COP26 dawns, PGR in Theatre Natalie Quatermass reflects on the gap between the conference and what communities are doing at grassroots level. When it…
Teaching climate and racial justice throughout the school curriculum
It’s the fourth day of COP26. Today Senior Lecturer in Education, Manjinder K. Jagdev, describes the holistic, global approach she takes to mathematics education. Last year, as part of the…