Her correspondence with John Cairns provides a framework for understanding her life and work and is shortly to be published by Ki Publishing as CORRESPONDENCE. Joan Ure, Ena Lamont Stewart, and Ada F Kay were among the founder members of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, which was set up after a meeting called in September 1973 by Hector MacMillan, Ena Lamont Stewart and John Hall. A poem by Joan Ure was suggested by members of the public as one of the runners-up for the Scottish Parliament's Canongate Wall Project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Holyrood Parliament:  "A country makes the artists it deserves / As it makes governments / Our artists shriek in paranoiac discords / When they are not just havering / You hope they do not feel they speak for you." The University of Bologna, Italy, teaches several English Literature modules, using Joan Ure's plays "Qualcosa anche per Cordelia" (Something in it for Cordelia), and "Sette Personaggi Venuti dal sogno" (Seven Characters out of a dream). The University of Parma, Italy, also uses two plays by Joan Ure in their English Literature programme: "Come una ragazzina" (1968) and "Riprendi la tua costola !" (1974) are available in the Italian translation by Panozzo Editore who describe her works as "confronting the themes of the condition and emancipation of women ... with the irony which characterises the whole work of Joan Ure".