Dr Jude Parks

Teaching

I teach on the following Geography Undergraduate modules:

• Year 1: Exploring Human Geography; Qualitative Methods in Geography.
• Year 2: Society and Space; Geographers Professional Practice.
• Year 3: Human Geography/Geography/Environmental Geography Dissertation; International/Cross-Cultural Fieldwork.

I also teach on 4 modules of the Environment and Social Justice MA: Environment, Society and Justice; Researching, Representing and Communicating Environment-Social Relations; Political Ecology; Capstone Project.

Research

My key areas of research are identity, sustainability, and environmental behaviour. I have worked on a number of research projects on community engagement, including as Principle Investigator on an ESRC-funded project focusing on the participation of minority groups in community services.

My recent research focuses on student responses to climate change, and social imagination in the context of climate emergency; this includes pedagogical research.

I co-coordinate YSJ's Ecological Justice Research Group.

Publications and conferences

Fernandes-Jesus, M., Hamilton, L., Heinemeyer, C, and Parks, Jude, (2024). Qualitative Research Methods in the Living Lab: Reflecting upon a learning and teaching approach for promoting psychological literacy. Psychology Learning and Teaching (PLAT) Vol. 23 (2).

Cunningham, Clare, Heinemeyer, Catherine, and Parks, Jude (2023) ‘The climate crisis leaves students feeling helpless – what universities can do to empower them’. The Conversation.

Cunningham, Clare, Parks, Jude, Heinemeyer, Catherine, Bailey, Joseph and Castanada Martin, Ana (2022) Doing your little bit’ when ‘everything is just so big now’: Locating domains for developing agency amidst disagentic student discourses about our climate crisis. SoJo journal. Vol. 8 (1).

Parks, Jude, Cassidy, Kathryn, Currie, Ruth, Doughty, Karolina, Clark, George E., Gombay, Nicole, Duffy, Michelle, Barry, Kaya, Wally Ryan, Anne (2021) Transforming embodied experience of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the Nordic Geographers’ Meeting in 2019. Cultural Geographies (Cultural Geographies in Practice). DOI: 10.1177/14744740211039831

Henley, Jennie and Parks, Jude (2020) The Pedagogy of a Prison and Community Music Programme: Spaces for conflict and safety. International Journal of Community Music. Vol. 13 (1) pp. 7-27

Barke, Michael and Parks, Judith (2015) An inevitable transition: the erosion of traditional vernacular building forms in the Alpujarras, southern Spain. Journal of Cultural Geography. Published online 4 November 2015. Vol. 33 (2) pp. 133-160

Parks, Judith (2015) Children’s Centres as spaces of interethnic encounter in North East England. Social and Cultural Geography. Vol. 16 (8) pp. 888-908

Parks, Judith and Askins, Kye (2014), ‘Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the North East of England’, Ethnic and Racial Studies. Themed issue: Cities, Diversity and Ethnicity: Politics, Governance and Participation. Vol. 38 (1): 92-108

Parks, Judith and Theobald, Kate (2013), ‘Public engagement with information on renewable energy developments: the case of single, semi-urban wind turbines’, Public Understanding of Science, Vol 22 (1): 50 – 65

Evans, Bob, Parks, Judith, and Theobald, Kate (2011), ‘Urban wind power and the private sector: Community benefits, Nimbyism and public engagement’, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol 54 (2): 227 – 244

Gordon Walker, Patrick Devine-Wright, Julie Barnett, Kate Burningham, Noel Cass, Hannah Devine-Wright, Gerda Speller, John Barton, Bob Evans, Yuko Heath, David Infield, Judith Parks and Kate Theobald (2010), ‘Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects’, in Devine-Wright, P. (Ed.) (2010) Renewable Energy and the Public: From Nimby to Participation. London: Earthscan

Parks, Judith (2007), ‘Planning and regulating mechanisms for renewable energy in the UK’, on-line working paper for Beyond Nimbyism ESRC project, RES-152-25-1008.

Elcock, Howard and Parks, Judith (2000), 'The English imperium reversed? Devolution sought and (partly) achieved?', in S. Lancaster (ed.) Developments in Politics: An Annual Review, Ormskirk: Causeway Press

Parks, Judith and Elcock, Howard (2000), ‘Why do regions demand autonomy?’ Regional and Federal Studies 10, 3: 87-106

Conference papers

Judith Parks (2009), ‘Experiences of research on renewable energy in the urban context’, Figueres Conference: Renewable Energies in a Municipal Context, 8-10 October 2009.

Judith Parks and Patrick Devine-Wright (2007), ‘Representing public engagement in energy and climate change policy: an empirical analysis’, Political Studies Association Conference, Bath, 12th April 2007.

Judith Parks and Howard Elcock (2005), ' The Failure of the Referendum on Devolution to the North-East of England', paper presented at the Conference of the Territorial Politics Specialist Group of the PSA, Queen's University of Belfast, 11-13 January 2006.

Judith Parks (1999), 'Sub-state identities and the European Union: A two-way flow of legitimacy', paper presented at Ionian Conference II: Integrating the New Europe, Corfu, 13-16 May 1999, British Council.

Professional activities

I was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2015.

I am on the core team of YSJ's Living Lab project, hosted by the Institute for Social Justice.