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…
Taking film seriously: an exploration of cinema and social justice
In this blog Martin Hall and Lauren Stephenson, senior lecturers in Film and Media & Communications, discuss their ‘Cinema and Social Justice’ Project. The Cinema and Social Justice project is…
A Shared Passion for History
Mind the Gap associate artist Daniel Foulds and York St John student Holly Mecrow reflect upon their shared passion for history and the value of buddy systems in helping widen…
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…
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…
Suitcase Stories: new NERC funded project explores climate adaptation with young people
When we talk about climate change and its impacts, we often focus – rightly – on how to prevent it. But just as important, given that the consequences of climate…
The Boy Who Could not Read: The Importance of Widening Participation that Reaches Out
In this blog post Adam Formby, senior lecturer in sociology at York St John University, talks about both his work and lived experience of widening participation. * * * What…
Breaking Bread and Drinking Tea with Researchers of the Global Majority
Siara Illing-Ahmed is a Storyteller and PhD candidate at York St John University, she makes performances that use food and conversation to explore questions of identity and heritage. ‘I was told as…
Student Stories of Social Justice
Talking about Teaching is York St John’s annual learning and teaching . This year, to perfectly tie in the first year of the Institute for Social Justice, the conference focused…