Quilting Change: What do you think humanity’s future on earth looks like?
This blog has been written by Second Year Fine Art Student Lydia Mattson, about the Climate Resilience Quilt that was created as part of a group project in collaboration with…
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,…
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…
Report launch from the ‘Bring your Voice to the World Cafe’ event
In May, researchers at YSJ held a World Café Event in collaboration with Our City Hub at York Explore Library to find out about migrants’ perspectives about what research academics…
Bring your Voice to the World Café! A Bottom-up Approach to Identifying Research Priorities
In this blog post, Raphaela Berding-Barwick and Maria Fernandes-Jesus reflect on a World Café event they held with other researchers and students from YSJ in collaboration with Our City Hub…
Toilet Talk: Empowering young people in schools to research and talk about toilet issues
Pupil toilets are a problematic space in school. Pupils often report feeling unsafe and being concerned about the cleanliness and hygiene of school toilets. As such are often reluctant to…
Working with Communities to Make a Contribution to a More Socially Just World
In this blog post Alma Mason, post-graduate researcher at York St John University, discusses her experiences of co-operative inquiry and community-led change as part of the Croxteth Community Trust. …