Ecological Justice Research Group
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The Ecological Justice Research Group represents all five of the University’s academic schools and several professional services departments.
Ecological justice is the recognition that social justice and environmental issues are tightly intertwined – that the most vulnerable in society suffer the first and worst consequences of climate change and environmental degradation.
Therefore, the solutions too need to be intertwined, learning from multiple disciplines, cultures and forms of knowledge.
Hosted within the Institute for Social Justice, the Group is an energetic, supportive and diverse group of staff and postgraduate researchers, representing all five of the University’s academic schools and several professional services departments.
Formed in summer 2021, the group’s initial research emphases are:
- The University as a Living Lab: developing the pedagogical and research potential of the campus environment as a place, an ecosystem, a community and a design challenge. The group will pilot this approach through an interdisciplinary project in spring 2022, involving students from multiple schools, investigating the issue of local air quality through the lenses of citizen science, performance, global justice and spatial politics. This project builds on earlier pedagogical action research by the Group’s members into York St John students’ expectations, anxieties and sense of agency in relation to ecological justice, which highlighted students’ desire to engage actively with the campus environment.
- Community and youth activism, ecological anxiety and the climate movement: the intersections between education, psychology and advocacy.
- Arts/science collaboration in exploring sustainable futures.
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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2021
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Lord Mayors Walk
York
YO31 7EX
United Kingdom
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Lord Mayors Walk
York
YO31 7EX
United Kingdom
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