Social Justice Projects
Our research cuts across all aspects of social justice.
Social Justice Fund
The Newcastle University Social Justice Fund is currently closed. Contact socialjustice@ncl.ac.uk for queries and information on future deadlines.
The Fund is developing a portfolio of successful relationships between the University and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. Funded projects will focus on key social justice issues. They will take a long-term view to enhancing the relationship between Newcastle University and the VCSE sector.
We are particularly interested in applications that will contribute to meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships between the University and VCSE partners and that are co-produced.
2019-2020 awards
- Forest School for wellbeing: addressing children and young people's mental health
- Scotswood Garden collaborating with Lucy Tiplady, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
- Developing a User Led Support Network for Disabled People and Personal Assistants: Recognising the Value of Interdependent Care
- Disability North collaborating with Professor Janice McLaughlin, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Reducing farm fatalities and accidents in England
- Farm Safety Foundation collaborating with Professor Sally Shortall, Centre for Rural Economy, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Justice Network Ireland
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- Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland collaborating with Ciara Brennan, Newcastle Law School
- Supporting Roma in Newcastle: Access to Higher Education
- Roma Right Path Project collaborating with Dr Heather Smith, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
- Inclusive and Safe Spaces: Transgender and Non-Binary Survivors and Domestic Abuse Services
- Tyneside Women’s Health and Cygnus Support collaborating with Professor Rachel Pain, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Into the Swim of Things: Well-being in older adults in North Tyneside, a case-study
- Panama Swimming Club collaborating with Dr Simon Woods, Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences
- Beyond 2020: A vision for the People’s Kitchen at 35 years
- People’s Kitchen collaborating with Dr Ruth McAreavey, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Building the foundations of a youth-led mental health campaign towards ending AIDS by 2030
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- Youth Stop AIDS collaborating with Nadege Sandrine Uwamahoro, Institute of Health and Society
- The West End Refugee Service at 20 (1999-2019): Building Sanctuary in Complex Times
- West End Refugee Service collaborating with Dr Silvia Pasquetti and Professor Cathrine Degnen, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- The investigation of allegations of torture: Towards a more effective framework
- International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute collaborating with Professor Gavin Oxburgh, School of Psychology
2018-2019 awards
- Foodbank Histories
- Northern Cultural Projects CIC and Newcastle West End Foodbank collaborating with Dr Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Oral History Unit and Collective
- Growing up in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods: Young People, Place and Belonging in Southwick, Sunderland
- Southwick Neighbourhood Youth Project collaborating with Dr Robin Finlay, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University
- Shieling: Co-designing a community research hub
- Shieldfield Artworks (SAW) collaborating with Dr Julia Heslop, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
- Women Warriors
- Workie Ticket Theatre Company collaborating with Dr Alice Cree, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Tribalism is Killing Us (TIKU): A Collaborative Research Platform and Film
- Bridge + Tunnel Productions collaborating with Dr. Tina Gharavi, School of English, Language and Linguistics
- Tackling Loneliness through Playing Out
- Playing Out CIC collaborating with Professor Alison Stenning, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Girl Kind Screen Takeover
- Little Big Butterfly collaborating with Dr Sarah Winkler-Reid, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Campus-Community Engagement
- VODA (Voluntary Organisations Development Agency) North Tyneside collaborating with Dr Helen Jarvis, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology