Resources

Dedicated resources pages:

• Resisting AI

Newsletters to Members

The Climate Justice Universities Union sends out a regular newsletter to members.

• October 2025
• September 2025
• Summer 2025
• May 2025
• April 2025
• March 2025
• February 2025
• December 2024

Publications on the Climate Justice Universities Union

• C. McGeown, S. Sheehan, J.C. Stephens, J. Barry. 2024. The Climate Justice Universities Union: Reclaiming the Transformative Power of Higher Education. Read on Rundale.
• Stephens, J.C. 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)
• Winter 2023 All‑Ireland Meeting — Organisers’ Report — University of Galway (PDF)

Other articles, books, reports, commentary, videos, podcasts, etc.

• Reilly, L., C. Ó Maonaigh and J. C. Stephens (2025). "Academic Capture: Investigating Industry Funding of Higher Education in Ireland." Studies Autumn 2025(455): 353-363. [journal article]

• Stephens, J. C. (2025). "The Case for Climate Justice Universities: Restructuring Higher Education for Transformative Change." Studies 114: 340-352. [journal article]

• Sokol, M. and J. C. Stephens (2025). "Universities, Polycrisis, and Regional Distribution: The Need for Radical Transformation." Review of Regional Research. [journal article]

• 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]

• "U" is for universities - ABCs of green politics [podcast]

• 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]

Please send any additional recommended resources to Climatejusticeuni@proton.me.