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Weathering the Change: Building Climate Resilience at York St John University

Martha Cattell, the Living Lab’s new Research Assistant, explores just why the current Living Lab focuses on climate resilience, how climate change is already affecting our campus, and how staff…

September 10, 2025 in Ecological Justice, Resilience in a Changing Climate.
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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…

April 23, 2025 in Resilience in a Changing Climate, Resilience in a Changing Climate, Student Intern.
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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…

November 4, 2024 in Asylum Seekers and Refugees.

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…

March 12, 2024 in Ecological Justice, Feeding the Campus 2022-23, Student Intern.
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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,…

February 27, 2024 in Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Diversity and Inclusion.
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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…

October 10, 2023 in Ecological Justice, Feeding the Campus 2022-23.

Making Waves: The Institute for Social Justice PGR Symposium 2023

Matthew Peyton, ISJ student intern, joined the Making Waves Symposium to discuss the ways to diversify teaching and social justice.  I was recently invited to take part in the ‘Making…

June 23, 2023 in Uncategorized.
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Doing Change: Education for Social Justice celebration

Doing Change is a celebration of York St John University’s commitment to education for social justice and the platform for the annual Archbishop of York Lecture in Social Justice.  This…

March 30, 2023 in Uncategorized.
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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…

March 27, 2023 in Ecological Justice, Feeding the Campus 2022-23, Student Intern.
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Researching peer support in recovery from drug and alcohol misuse 

This blog explores the ongoing Community Research Grants project ‘Investigating the role of peer support in recovery from drug and alcohol misuse’. This is a collaboration between York in Recovery…

March 9, 2023 in Uncategorized.

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The ISJ supports collaborative research and practice that draws on the range of academic expertise across our university. We seek to facilitate research, projects and partnerships that help us to pursue and promote a fairer society.

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ISJ Posts

The Period Project – by Georgina Wetherall

“Co-production is not a technique but a politics of relationship”

“Everyone has the right to be a knower”

“Change requires fundamentally reimagining how we engage with young people” 

Weathering the Change: Building Climate Resilience at York St John University

Belonging and ‘bubbles’: Mind The Gap and York St John student collaboration

Pride, Poverty, and the Power of Community: Supporting Our Older Generations with the Respect They Deserve

Creating the ‘Young Carers’ Podcast: Opening up the Conversation.

Woven together: A Workshop of Craft and Climate Conversation.

Reaching across the disciplinary lines

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