The Centre for Human Ecology (CHE) exists to stimulate and support radical change towards ecological and social justice through education, action and research. The CHE draws upon a holistic, multidisciplinary understanding of our unravelling environmental and social systems to create learning for being fully human in community and solidarity.
Environmental and human rights
Funding Opportunities
The Human Nature Project
Within Human Nature lies the ability to create, connect and adapt to change.
The Human Nature Project’s ambition is to strengthen our emotional connection with the more-than-human world, while at the same time strengthening our sense of connection to each other, and to our own individual mental health and resilience.
The London Renters’ Union
The London Renters’ Union is a member-led, campaigning union. We take action with our members to win better housing conditions in the here and now as well as organsing to transform the housing system so that it serves people instead of profit.
The New School of the Anthropocene
The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical and affordable experiment in interdisciplinary higher education, which confronts biopolitical crisis in collaboration with October Gallery in London. We are an ensemble of experienced academics and practitioners who wish to restore the critical risk and creative desire to arts education.
The Reading Room
The Reading Room is a collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas. Through linking up with spaces across the country, we’ve created libraries stocked with thought provoking books. Reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse collaboration and conversation.
The School of Abolition
The School of Abolition is a year-long action research project that uses contemporary art and activism to challenge Scotland’s prison industrial complex and the ways in which we respond to harm and crime without resorting to further policing or imprisonment.
Warp & Weft
Warp & Weft explores consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. It looks at what gets called ‘mental health’, also at trauma in a broad sense, and considers approaches to foster liberatory personal and collective transformation.
Women’s Community Matters
Women’s Community Matters want to play our part in creating a world where the consequences of gender inequality and patriarchy, and their impact on women and their families, are consigned to history. We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission with our primary focus on women-centred working.
Workers
Ten individuals give personal and sometimes moving accounts of warehouse and food factory work, and reflect on their creative lives within and beyond the workplace. Their stories reveal some of the harsh employment conditions in contemporary capitalist workplaces in these sectors, and confirm the power inequalities inherent in them. Three of the narrators also look […]