What does an intern at the ISJ get up to?
Maisie Wilson shares stories and insights from their time as an Intern at the ISJ 2023-2024. From creating the first student-led podcasts and behind-the-scenes editing work from across the social…
Students invited to submit creative food stories for new publication
Building on the Student Cookbook success! The York St John Student Cookbook was created by an editorial team of 21 volunteer students from 6 different degree programmes, sharing recipes and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Enough is Enough: a carnival on climate change
Day 10 of COP26. Today and tomorrow we hear from students who are taking action on climate. Henry Dawson, 3rd year Drama and Theatre student, uses his skills as a facilitator…
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 – 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…
#ClimateJusticeTakeover of the ISJ blog
Today is the first day of COP26 in Glasgow – the ten-day conference which may well be the world’s last realistic chance to avoid climate breakdown. As policymakers gather from…