The EJP project was kick started in July last year by a generous donation from Strathclyde’s alumni fund. The funding led to the recruitment of a project coordinator and a deputy coordinator, Dylan Wright and Natalie Houston respectively, both of whom have been progressing the project ever since.

Dylan describes his experience below:
“Thanks to the grant provided by the Alumni Fund, I was taken on by the Clinic in a paid summer role. In this role, I had to pleasure of working on several aspects of the Environmental Justice project. I assisted in a research project in collaboration with C2LI (Climate Justice Legal Initiative), which involved researching environmental litigation cases to help populate a climate litigation database. I also carried out a mapping exercise, looking into what other law clinics were doing in this area of law regionally, nationally and internationally, and what organisations were working with law clinics in this area of law. I collated this information into a project guidance note which has been used to inform the project’s future direction. I was then able to apply for the role of project coordinator. This opportunity has allowed me to gain a further understanding of this area of law, which was one that I was not overly familiar with before. It also helped me to assist with the fantastic work being done by those already working in this area. It helped me to hone my research skills and work on projects that are making a difference in the field of climate justice. This experience, whilst being personally and professionally fulfilling, has provided me with a greater skill set that will last me beyond my years in formal education, and has enabled us as a clinic to forge lasting connections with those we collaborated with thus far.’

We thank the alumni fund for its donation and look forward to seeing what the project does in the future.