News and information for all postgraduate researchers at the University of York.
The Joan Samuels Scholarship offers one award of £1,000 to be paid against University tuition fees for one postgraduate taught student or postgraduate researcher with a disability each academic year. Applications are now being accepted until 5pm on Friday 4 November 2022. The successful candidate will be notified no later than Friday 11 November 2022. Find … Continue reading Joan Samuels Scholarship 2022 – Call for Applications
Postgraduate and early career researchers from a variety of UK universities are invited to join Networking Knowledge’s book review mailing list. Book reviews will be included in future issues of the journal and are generally 1,500 – 2,000 words, though longer reviews will be considered. Why take part? Book reviewing is an excellent way to … Continue reading Networking Knowledge – Call for Book Reviewers
Thursday 6 Oct, 6pm – Wentworth College Senior Common Room (W/135) About the ERF The Emerging Researchers’ Forum is an informal network for researchers (PhD, MRes, ECRs) to share experiences, offer peer-support and socialise with those at a similar level within the university. The Forum aims to bridge the gap between PhDs and ECRs in … Continue reading Emerging Researchers’ Forum – 6 Oct
Conducting a large research project is challenging work, but no matter your level, all postgraduate researchers are invited to take part in our award-winning Mentoring Scheme or Buddy Scheme, respectively. Find out more about each scheme below. Buddy Scheme – for 1st year Postgraduate Researchers only Application deadline: 3 October 2022 Are you a new … Continue reading Mentoring and buddy support
Date: Tuesday 26 July 2022, 12 – 1pm Are you interested in studying a PhD and from an underrepresented group*? The Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) partners; the Universities of York, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam University are running a Q & A webinar on 26 July from 12-1pm where you can meet … Continue reading Studying for a PhD – The Inside Story: Online Q & A for prospective PhD students
This friendly and informal lunchtime event will provide an opportunity to reflect upon what we have achieved in the past two years as an open research community of practice, share ideas and plans on where we are going next, and discuss what challenges we still need to address. It will also be an opportunity to … Continue reading Open Research at York: Two Years On, Wednesday 13 July, 11-1pm
Deadline: 1 August 2022 We understand from departments that Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) may be being approached for support by students in need or distress, or encountering them unexpectedly in the routine course of your teaching, even as you are strictly speaking not supposed to be offering wellbeing support to students. Not only is this … Continue reading GTAs and Student Wellbeing and Support: Focus Group Invitation
Deadline: 17:00 (UK Time), 30 June 2022 About the opportunity The new ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, co-hosted at the Universities of York and Leeds, is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship on over-policing communities of colour and vulnerability. This studentship is ringfenced for British BAME candidates and is part of a co-ordinated plan to increase diversity and inclusion among our postgraduate research community. The closing date … Continue reading ESRC and White Rose funded PhD studentship opportunity
The Open Research team are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s York Open Research Awards, celebrating projects and advocacy initiatives across a variety of disciplines and recognising work which encourages dialogue, reflection and broader thinking about some of the issues involved in open research and its implementation. The awards highlight projects from all … Continue reading York Open Research Awards: Recipients Announced
Join the Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal team for an online event to celebrate Issue 2 of Postgraduate Pedagogies and hear about the future plans for the journal When: Thursday, 30 June, 4-5pm BST About the event The second issue of Postgraduate Pedagogies includes eight exciting and topical essays written by GTAs from a range of UK … Continue reading Launch Event: Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal (Volume 2)