News and information for all postgraduate researchers at the University of York.
Postgraduate Pedagogies is an online open-access journal devoted to articulating and sharing the perspectives of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). They publish texts that convey the experiences, reflections, and analyses of current and recent graduate teaching assistants, those who work with GTAs, and those who support them. The journal is holding a competition to design the … Continue reading Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal: Call for artwork
The Library will have winter vacation opening hours between Saturday 24 December and Tuesday 3 January. All Library buildings and services will be open as normal until Friday 23 December. The Morrell helpdesk and chat/email services will be closed from Saturday 24 December until Tuesday 3 January. Kings Manor Library will also be closed during … Continue reading Library opening hours over the winter break
Being a Network Coordinator is one of the most enjoyable parts of being a student at the University of York. Networks are social groups exclusively for postgraduate students, designed around specific themes. And Network Coordinators are the volunteers in charge, each with a £500 budget to spend throughout the academic year. Our Networks include PhD … Continue reading GSA: Become a Network Coordinator
Based in the Harry Fairhurst Building, the Creativity Lab is a vibrant hub for all things digitally creative, offering local businesses, academic colleagues and students the opportunity to play with and learn about emerging technologies. Whether you want to develop new skills and access technical support through our range of practical kit workshops and masterclasses or for those … Continue reading Creativity Lab: learn about emerging technologies
The York Environmental Sustainability Institute was set up by the University of York to facilitate and deliver world-class collaborative interdisciplinary research on environmental sustainability. YESI is running a number of training courses that may be of interest to postgraduate researchers: Sign up for events via the YESI Eventbrite page
Join us on Wednesday 11 January 2023 for a rollercoaster journey through a series of free short talks highlighting the breadth and depth of the fascinating research underway at York. Topics this year range from feeding the world with crop waste and bugs, single-session phobia treatments for children, limitless clean energy production – and much more… … Continue reading Come to YorkTalks and the PhD Spotlight competition!
Over the next few months we’re running a series of Research Culture Cafés to get input from our research community into the topics we should address in our forthcoming Research Culture Action Plan. These are informal opportunities to raise issues, highlight best practice, and share your thoughts and ideas about research culture at York. The sessions will … Continue reading Take part in Research Culture Cafés
The latest person to be featured in our ‘Humans of York’ series is Rose, a current recipient of the YGRS PhD Scholarship. Read Rose’s story on the University Facebook page. She outlines her research and how the YGRS PhD Scholarship has helped her realise her dream. The University of York is committed to redressing systemic … Continue reading “Don’t be afraid to dream”: Meet Rose, a YGRS scholar
The Academic Practice Team is currently reviewing GTA support, training, and professional development at either University wide, faculty, or departmental level. We would therefore be grateful if all PGRs interested in teaching and learning in Higher Education would complete this survey to support us in this review. The survey is anonymous. Question in the survey relate to: … Continue reading GTA Training Needs Survey: tell us about your training needs
The Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) is pleased to announce the launch of our first Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) mentoring programme. The YCEDE PGR Mentoring programme has been created in consultation and collaboration with staff and PGRs from across the consortium to provide a bespoke mentoring programme for UK black, Asian and minority … Continue reading Bespoke mentoring programme for UK black, Asian and minority ethnic PGRs
