Research Library
This research library has been created over years in partnership with various researchers, communities, and organisations. This library is a site of living knowledges; a realm where knowledge finds a sanctuary to flourish, evolve, and expand beyond the confines of conventional repositories. It is a dynamic space dedicated to storing and nurturing knowledge in a manner that allows it to adapt, transform, and grow with the passage of time. Every piece of information is treated as a seed, capable of germinating, branching out, and cross-pollinating with other ideas.
What would an NPPF look like from an Ecological Justice framing?
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.
Healing Justice Grant: Health Clinic, Mexico
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.
Nature, Cities, Health, and Healing
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.
Invisible Health
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.
Who are Air?
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.
Systems of Power Working Board
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.
Environmental Data for Health Justice Working Board
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.
Right to Pollute Policies and their Epistemological Roots
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.
The Living Indigenous Encyclopaedias For Health 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.
Principles for Engaging with Traditional Ecological Knowledges in Urban 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.
Envisioning a Healthier Urban Way of Living: Indigenous Sovereignty in Los Angeles and Beyond
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.
Pathways to Health Injustices for Indigenous Peoples
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.
Two Essays on Non-Western Approaches to Healing
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.
Urban Sacrifice Zones & The Right to Pollute
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.
Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, & Healthcare
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.
The Mental Distress of Environmental Injustice
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.
The Need to Move from Care to Healing
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.
Gender, Care, and Equity
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.
Heating & a Healing Home
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.
Gasworks, Regeneration and Communities
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.