Event Description Join in and start making a real difference to how you feel and help the environment! Details of the practical conservation tasks scheduled will be confirmed at a closer date. They could include pond work, habitat management or …
Practical Conservation with The Conservation Volunteers Read More »
An informative in-person event where Health and social care providers and York residents come together to share their experiences. This event is hosted by Healthwatch York. The theme for this event is how you access your doctors, pharmacy, dentist and …
Event Description Calling all teachers and educators! Outdoor learning provides interesting and challenging opportunities for pupils to experiment and engage with curriculum topics and can help to develop a wide range of skills including problem solving, communication. This short CPD …
Event details CHE Policy Forum The way the NHS pays providers of emergency healthcare has been changing with an increasing emphasis on what is called blended payment. This means that there is discretion to move away from nationally set prices …
Paying for emergency care: Why one size (probably) doesn’t fit all Read More »
Event Description Environmental Sustainability at York (ESAY) is a University of York-based team that helps to connect the activities we are doing on environmental sustainability within teaching, research and campus operations to deliver new joined-up benefits and create impact within and …
Together We Thrive: Join our talk to hear about, and discuss, how the environmental movement can be made inclusive! Speakers: 1. Flick Williams is a Disability Rights Activist based in York. She has an MA in Disability Studies from the …
Event Description What are the barriers and opportunities for disabled people to have their say on sustainability? In this session, we will share an overview of disability and ableism and delve into the consequence of ableism in the environmental movement. …
Taking place at the New Earswick Folk Hall on Thursday 28 September from 3.30 – 5pm, we would like to invite you to come and discover the work we do to enhance the psychological and social wellbeing of local people with long-term neurological …
Event Description Join us for a panel discussion and public ideas exchange on trade unions and climate justice, jointly hosted by York and District Trades Union Council and Yorkshire and Humber TUC. We’ll be joined by speakers from a number …
Trade Unions and Climate Justice: Can We Have Good Jobs and Green Public Services? Read More »
Event Description Join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for talks and a Q&A on 2 global threats facing this generation. Dr. Phil Webber (Scientists for Global Responsibility) will speak on the cost and effects of nuclear weapons. This will be …
Politics sucks. But there is another way... Join the People’s Assembly. Extinction Rebellion York, in partnership with Yorkshire CND, invite you to the People’s Assembly - held as part of York Environment Week 2023. In 2019, Extinction Rebellion York hosted …
Event details Institute for Safe Autonomy Launch Event Join us to celebrate the official opening of the Institute for Safe Autonomy (ISA) at the University of York. We will host a panel discussion with leading experts in the field of …
Event Description An invitation to meet Cllrs. Jenny Kent and Kate Ravilious for a Q&A on the Council’s priorities for York’s environment and climate emergency commitments. What are your priorities for the city in tackling climate change and other green …
JOIN THE CONVERSATION. BE A PART OF THE CHANGE. How do we keep women safe? The conversation continues. And the loudest voices call for self-defence classes, rape alarms, trackers and a dress code. The conversation needs to change. The voices …
Bodies on the Line is a mini-exhibition, a conversation, and a dance intervention organised by the Art Rights Truth team at the University of York in collaboration with UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, the Guild for Media Arts, and XR Stories. Inspired by discussions surrounding …
Event details Bodies on the Line is a mini-exhibition, a conversation, and a dance intervention organised by the Art Rights Truth team at the University of York in collaboration with UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, the Guild for Media Arts, and XR Stories. Inspired by …
Event details School for Business and Society Lecture Professor Aliverti will look at the example of migration policing in the UK, where immigration policies have added safeguarding and care for the vulnerable to the priority of detecting and ejecting illegal …
The heart of the state: Emotional and moral economies of migration policing Read More »
Event details CHE Policy Forums In 2021-22, prescription medicines cost the NHS in England £17.2 billion. Current policies, like NICE technology appraisal and the Voluntary Scheme, aim to incentivise innovation while ensuring access and affordability. This session explores recent research …
How much should we pay for innovation? Fair pricing for pharmaceuticals Read More »
Event details Black History Month Lecture The momentous Black Lives Matter movement that swept through the UK following the police killing of George Floyd in the US in May 2020 exposed an uncomfortable and unsettling truth: thirty years after the …
Event details Black History Month Lecture TT Arvind is Professor of Law and Head of Department at York Law School. He joined York in September 2007 as one of the founding members of the law school and returned to it in …
Uprising, abolition and constitutions TT Arvind, Head of York Law School Read More »
How do we keep women safe? The conversation continues. And the loudest voices call for self-defense classes, rape alarms, trackers and a dress code.The conversation needs to change. The voices of women need to be at the centre, but the …
In 2021, for the first time, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released data on how safe people feel in different public settings. One in two women felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a quiet street near their home, …
Event details Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry Occasional Lecture Organized by the Mind and Reason group, Department of Philosophy, University of York. In this lecture Louis Sass considers the enigmatic nature of human subjectivity, which the philosopher Merleau-Ponty referred to …