Events, reports and videos

In this film you will hear participants in York St John University's Allotment Project speak about the impact of the allotment on their mental health and wellbeing. 

This short film shares the learning from a research project commissioned by the charity Open Country. Poet and wild swimmer Kate Fox shaped contributions from both disabled people and accessible watersports charities into an evocative poem.

This video features interviews with staff and students from the Occupational Therapy BSc course at York St John University. They discuss their work on 2 projects RASPS (Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project Stockton) and the Community Allotment Project.

Living Lab is an interdisciplinary network in which University students and staff collaborate with local organisations and policymakers to investigate and tackle local problems.

In 2022, young people in Batley and Leeds worked with storytellers and researchers from York St John University, exploring true stories of climate adaptation from around the world.

This short video shares some of the insights and experiences from the Creative Doodle Book project both from the delivery team and the participants.

The Creative Doodle Book is a hands-on resource developed by Mind the Gap and York St John University to support socially distanced community arts practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.

For this video we asked some of the people we work with what social justice means to them. These are their voices.