Resources
Newsletters to Members: The Climate Justice Universities Union sends out a regular newsletter to members.
May 2025: Highlights: Working groups and branch updates, resisting academic precarity, & industry funding of universities.
April 2025: Highlights: New partnerships in solidarity with Palestine & resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure.
March 2025: Highlights: Building collective power for feminist climate justice & Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference.
February 2025: Highlights: New local branches and how to get involved in working groups.
December 2024: Highlights: In-person meeting at University College Cork & The Climate Alarm Clock Podcast
Podcasts
The Climate Alarm Clock Podcast. Feature on the Climate Justice Universities Union. December 4 2024.
Publications on the Climate Justice Universities Union
McGeown, C, S. Sheehan, JC Stephens, J. Barry. 2024. The Climate Justice Universities Union: Reclaiming the Transformative Power of Higher Education. Rundale. December 2024.
Stephens, JC. 2024. Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future For All. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Reports of the Climate Justice Universities Union Meetings
Spring 2024 All-Ireland Meeting - Organisers’ Report - Queen’s University Belfast [PDF download]
Winter 2023 All-Ireland Meeting - Organisers’ Report - University of Galway [PDF download]
Other articles, books, reports, comment, videos, podcasts, etc.
Please send any additional recommended resources to climatejusticeuni@gmail.com
Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis [journal article]
Agents of (un)sustainability: Democratising universities for the planetary crisis [journal article]
Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda [journal article]
The planet is on fire, so why is higher education behaving as if it is business as usual? [comment]
Reimagining universities as change agents for climate and economic justice [video]
“No research on a dead planet”: Preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia [journal article]
What is the role of universities at a time of climate and ecological crisis? [journal article]
Conceptualising HE educators’ capabilities to teach the crisis: Towards critical and transformative environmental pedagogies [journal article]
Beyond tick boxes: Re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education [journal article]
Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency [journal article]
“Beyond being analysts of doom”: Scientists on the frontlines of climate action [journal article]
Wanting to be part of the change but feeling overworked and disempowered: Researchers’ perceptions of climate action in UK universities [journal article]
From publications to public actions: The role of universities in facilitating academic advocacy and activism in the climate and ecological emergency [journal article]
Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action [comment]
Academic capture in the Anthropocene: A framework to assess climate action in higher education [journal article]
Actions speak louder than words: The case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency [journal article]
Climate emergency: UK universities’ declarations and their role in responding to climate change [journal article]