Research Library
A collection of open-access research produced over the years by Centric Lab and partners
TCM addresses the root cause of symptoms. It is less interested in weight loss as it is uncovering internal imbalances and as such the treatment plan would be focused on first reaching internal harmony and strengthening organ and meridian function, and the healthy circulation of Qi and blood.
Taking on an Ecological Justice approach to the NPPF requires a foundational shift to the role and motivations around planning and the relationship with land in the UK.
Whilst our work is concentrated in the United Kingdom, it is important that we learn from those already in practice. This work from Mexico can provide us with methods and learnings for our collective work in the UK. It can also help create mental infrastructure for healing imaginations not currently available.
This report highlights the cultural and practical changes needed to protect Nature in cities and embrace the existing relationships and knowledges. This report provides its readers a new lens in looking at Nature by investigating the different epistemologies, ways of understanding, of health, nature, and community.
The more we understand the microbiome, the more we can play a role in including their fruition in cities, we do not have to make a choice between cities and healing.
Microbial ecologist Dr. Jake Robinson introduces us to think about air, not as a singular entity around us, but as a dynamic ecology; containing diverse microbial communities of bacteria, viruses, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa and tiny animals, along with pollen, organic compounds and spores galore.
The purpose of this Systems of Power board is to build confidence for community and grassroots led advocacy in health justice issues as they navigate political and governmental systems and their layers of entrenched power.
The purpose of the Environmental Data for Health Justice board is to build confidence in how those seeking structural health justice outcomes through research, campaigns, and other forms of advocacy use data as a language to directly address health injustices and develop strategies for health justice.
This project brought together people with knowledges across a variety of policy, organising in healthcare and the criminal justice system, as well as environmental and climate justice.
This digital encyclopaedia is a working archive of Knowledges from Indigenous, subaltern, and Land-Kinned Peoples that, when justly worked, with are relevant in making urban spaces life sustaining and contribute to ending the dysregulation of our planetary systems.
These are working principles set forth by a group of Indigenous Peoples and Land-Kinned Peoples who gathered in the UK. We see this both as a starting point and an evolving process. These principles are the first iteration, as they interact with more Peoples they will change and evolve.
Tribal law scholar, Grace Carson writes in the first person about restoring the Indigenous identities and cultures to Los Angeles, where it has been systemically erased.
The pathways to poor health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples are multifaceted and interconnected. Here, we provide a brief overview of the devastating effects of colonisation, forced assimilation, displacement, and systemic oppression have on health.
These two essays reflect on non-western healing epistemologies, both as an opportunity for healing and as a response to the harms of the western medical industrial complex.
The purpose of this data led study is to bring attention to everyday people those who have the right to pollute in their neighbourhoods, so that people can make more informed decisions when it comes to voting and priorities for our shared health and climate change action points.
The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised.
What is often missing from the conversation is how environmental hazards, due to being an experience of stress and trauma can lead to mental distress.
This report looks at how an ecological healing system can mean that we create pathways for everyday healing rather than waiting for the onset of disease.
The key takeaway is that sex and gender are one way of conceptualising a complex ecosystem made up of multiple cells and microbes which digests, reproduces, thinks, and loves, rather than a universal truth.
When people can no longer use their home to heal and feel that they are in a place of rest, they are at greater risk of not restoring. The home in the case of higher costs is no longer a healer but a harmer.
Regeneration is a word used to promote positive benefit from construction and urbanisation. However, construction on old gas works sites without biologically adequate provisions are putting various communities across the UK at high risk for poor health outcomes.
As planetary dysregulation continues without systemic intervention, the threat to children’s health will continue to rise. It seems redundant to say, but we should prioritise the health of children as they are our future ancestors, who have imaginations and futures to fulfil.
Disability justice is inextricably linked to environmental justice, and we cannot truly have either one without the other. Disabled people were some of the first to sound the alarm about the damage that seemingly mundane products cause and whose voices need to be heard in the climate space.
This project was created to showcase the lived experience of how colonisation has affected Indigenous Peoples in varied and unique ways, ripping some of us from Ancestral Lands, Peoples, and culture whilst others are currently fighting to keep their territories as colonisation continues to evolve.
Nature can be a site of freedom, and an opportunity to extend our ideas of Transness outside of just humans: what if the ocean is non-binary? What could it mean to relate our genders to elements in nature rather than social norms?
This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised, working-class communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems (climate change).
This report will focus on the pathways that are contributing to planetary dysregulation and their impacts on human health. With the purpose of updating policies that will support the work of environmental and health justice practitioners.
Depression is recognised as ‘a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease’ and has both a complex aetiology and symptomatology. It is often framed as a mental health problem, however, the more we understand the more we uncover its physical symptomology.
A data-led article on the toxification of Land in the UK at the hands of industrialisation whilst the general public is shamed and gaslit for their systemic need to get into a motor vehicle. All the while, millions of tonnes of chemicals are churned out into the environment.
Simply saying Black or Indigenous Peoples experience Type 2 Diabetes at a higher rate, leaves room for further racialisation as it could add to the narrative of genetic determinism, which blames a person’s biological make-up for disease rather than considering ecological factors.