SIRRE is an international, interdisciplinary network to advance research on structural injustice, relational equality, and responsibility for justice. Grounded in Iris Marion Young’s legacy as well as recent scholarship, the network integrates analytic, constructive, and action-guiding work: structural injustice as a critical lens, relational equality as the egalitarian ideal, and responsibility for justice as a forward-looking, action-guiding framework. A cross-cutting focus on health—physical, mental, and public health, including well-being—serves as a paradigmatic domain.
The network targets three research gaps: first, refining the concept of structural injustice beyond Young by engaging critical perspectives and linking it to epistemic and historical injustice; second, advancing relational equality as a transformative ideal for dismantling hierarchies across local, national, and global settings; third, developing distributive and collective responsibility models that mobilise individuals and institutions to address structural harms.
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) the SIRRE network unites international members and senior advisers, and links leading scholars with early- and mid-career researchers to shape agendas and generate impact. Activities combine bi-monthly online work meetings across the thematic areas with annual in-person conferences that synthesise debates and seed future projects.

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Together, the three working areas connect diagnosis, ideals, and action: analysing how structural injustices are produced and sustained, clarifying what it means to relate as equals, and developing forward‑looking responsibilities for transforming unjust structures across diverse social and health contexts.