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…
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…