Conversations in Social Justice
Episodes
Navigating tensions between ethical approval and real-life participatory research
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast features a conversation recorded at York St John University’s The Only Way is Ethics Conference in 2025. Dr Owen Powell speaks with...
Beats and Boroughs: Working with young artists and building music communities in East London
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode research fellow Jo Gibson talks to Emmanuel ‘Manny Loveankh’ Ebokosia, Regina Binzari and Joshua Eyakware from True Cadence, a mus...
Giving a Policy Voice to People With Lived Experience
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Amy Skinner, Ruth Lambley and Bryony Boyle discuss a collaboration between Up for Yorkshire, an infrastructure organisation based i...
Young Carers
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jess Dancer, this year’s intern at the Institute for Social Justice, discusses the challenges faced by young carers, particularly t...
I'm Me: Co-facilitation and Representation
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about I’m Me which uses creative methods to explore artists with learning disabilities and autism’s understanding of identity, rep...
I'm Me: Asking Questions Through Music
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about I’m Me which uses creative methods to explore artists with learning disabilities and autism’s understanding of identity, rep...
I'm Me: Asking Questions Through Non-Verbal Theatre
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about I’m Me, which uses creative methods to explore artists with learning disabilities and autism’s understanding of identity, re...
I'm Me: Inclusive Facilitation
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about I’m Me, which uses creative methods to explore artists with learning disabilities and autism’s understanding of identity, re...
Student Sustainability Stories: Wild Wednesdays
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Amy Hodgson talks to Maisie Wilson about a YSJ gardening project that aims to deliver social change.
Student Sustainability Stories: Climate Action Society
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode YSJ Environment and Social Justice MA student Pax Butchart discusses climate change activism on campus with Maisie Wilson.
Student Sustainability Stories: Garden Cafe
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ISJ Psychology student Hayden Costello describes bringing sustainable food systems on to campus by setting up a garden cafe.
I'm Me: Asking Difficult Questions Part 2
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the third conversation about I’m Me, research assistant Daniel Foulds talks to Laura Walne and Jess MacKenzie from About Face Theatre and Alison ...
I'm Me: Asking Difficult Questions Part 1
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the second podcast on I’m Me, project lead Matthew Reason talks to Alison Colburne, an artist at Mind the Gap, and Jess Boyes, a producer at Mi...
I'm Me: Talking to the Research Assistants
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first conversation about the I’m Me project, post-doctoral researcher Kelsie Acton talks to Zara Mallinson and Daniel Foulds from Mind the G...
Men's Suicide Prevention Impact and Evaluation Project
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation Dr Gary Shepherd and Sam Watling discuss a new research project to provide York-based men's social wellbeing group Menfulness...
Challenging domestic violence through drama and workshops with secondary aged children
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this second podcast about the NSPCC and York St John University theatre department partnership, Rachel Conlon and Jules Dorey Richmond discuss the ...
Tackling Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation through Theatre in Education
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, senior theatre lecturers Rachel Conlon and Jules Dorey Richmond are joined by Helen Westerman, head of local campaigns at the NSPCC. ...
Creating Community at York Central
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
York Central is one of the largest developments on Brownfield land in the UK. Located near to York’s railway station, this 45 hectare mixed use site...
Media, Democracy and Social Justice in Zimbabwe
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Dr Everett Ndlovu of York St John University will discuss media, democracy and social justice in Zimbabwe with activist and academic B...
Sustainability Stories: Investigating the UK creative industry and the communication of sustainability
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Dr Alexandra Dales of York St John University and Dr Rory Padfield, Lecturer in Sustainability and Business at the University of Leeds...
Cinema and Social Justice
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Steve Rawle and Dr Martin Hall of York St John University discuss the making of Cost of Living, a timely short film, curated from m...
Ties That Bind: Africa's Unsung Hero
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast York St John MA Media Production student Mpho Dintwa talks to Everett Ndlovu, Lecturer in Journalism. Mpho discusses the making of his...
Social Action and the Radical Imagination
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, York St John University PhD student Jack Hunter talks to Sophia Parker, director of Emerging Futures at the Joseph Rowntree Foundatio...
Prison Partnership Project 3: Prison Placements and the Student Experience
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this final podcast about the Prison Partnership Project, we hear from two former York St John theatre students – Jordan Towers and Maia McConnell...
Prison Partnership Project 2: Art and Criminal Justice
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, On the Out researcher and practitioner, Jess Robson is joined by Rachel Conlon, senior lecturer in Theatre and Director of the York S...
Prison Partnership Project 1: On the Out
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first of three podcasts from the Prison Partnership Project. In this episode, Researchers and Practitioners, Paula Clark and Jess Robson introduce...
Participatory Research with Autistic People
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Dr Brett Heasman (Psychology, YSJ), Carl Cameron (a lead peer mentor at the autism charity Matthew’s Hub), and Sammy Williams ...
Reflections on Current Issues in the Legal Professions with Lady Hale.
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Helen Trouille and Jan Maltby from the York St John University law school talk to Lady Hale, former President of the Supreme Court, a...
Student Mental Health and the University
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is hosted by Human Geography Lecturer Su Fitzpatrick in conversation with Amie Hayes and Laura Southward of York based learning support p...
Music, Leisure, Education
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Lee Higgins - director of the International Centre for Community Music at York St John University - is joined by music education scholar Rog...
Paul Kissack: The Task Before Us
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday 24th May, Paul Kissack delivered the 2nd Annual Archbishop of York Institute for Social Justice Lecture. Titled ‘The Task Before Us’, i...
Youth, Education and Environmental Activism
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Olalekan Adekola is joined by Conservation Scientist, Educator and Community organiser, Dr Salamatu Jidda-Fada to discuss her environmental conserv...
Sharing Parental Leave
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shared parental leave is a great policy that has the potential to bring about cultural change and drive gender equality. However, a key barrier to sha...
Dark Academia: How Universities Die
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary universities have been corporatised, commercialised and financialised in the name of transparency, accountability and 'value for money'. ...
The Social Contract of Research: Emerging from the Ruins of Empire
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If universities are founded for the common good, what is the social contract of research? In this podcast Matthew Reason, Director of the Institute fo...
Colonial Histories and Institutional Memory: York St John University's Historical Archive
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Stock is joined by PhD researcher Amy McCarthy and Academic Services Manager Tom Peach to discuss a project which explored documented, institu...
Giving Voice to the Non-Human
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We understand better than ever that the human dramas of social justice can’t be disentangled from the natural ecosystems in which they are embedded....
Breaking Bread and Drinking Tea with Researchers of the Global Majority
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Siara Illing-Ahmed is a Storyteller and PhD candidate at York St John University, she makes performances that use food and conversation to explore que...
Dementia, Personhood and Social Justice: The Role of Creativity
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Helen Pleasance and Caleb Klaces, both writers and Senior Lecturers at the York Centre for Writing, York St John University, speak to Dr Lucy Burke...
Participatory Action Research and Social Justice
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Joan Walton, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at York St John University, talks to Professor Hilary Bradbury, Co-Editor of The Sage Handb...
Democratic Methodologies: Disrupting Research
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon, lecturer at York St John University talks to Dr Debbie Ralls of University of Manchester and Professor Kaz Stuart of Univers...
Activism and Race within University Teaching and Research
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Matthew Reason, Director of the Institute for Social Justice, talks to Jonathan P Jones of New York University about universities as s...
The Role and Responsibilities of Universities in Transforming Society
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor of Counselling Psychology at York St John University, Divine Charura, talks to Dr Jonathan Chaplin, a political theologian and a member of t...
Education, Social Justice and Mental Health
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Rowe is Director of Converge at York St John, which runs University-based courses in the arts to adults with experience of mental ill-health. In ...
Education and the Frontline of Climate Justice
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YSJU lecturer in art and ecological justice Dr Cath Heinemeyer finds out more about climate justice from Thimali Kodikara, producer and presenter of t...