News and information for all postgraduate researchers at the University of York.
The University of York’s Access and Outreach team and Academic Support Office are looking to recruit a number of postgraduate students to support the delivery of various online outreach activities for post-16 students for the summer of 2021. All opportunities are designed to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in Higher Education to reach … Continue reading Access and Outreach teaching opportunities
The Brilliant Club offers an opportunity for PhD researchers to have a sustained and meaningful impact on school pupils who have been unfairly disadvantaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Brilliant Club works with PhD students and PhD graduates specifically, and are currently recruiting tutors to start work from April onwards to work on their curriculum focused Brilliant Tutoring Programme, … Continue reading The Brilliant Club PhD researcher opportunity
The third round of the Covid-19 PhD Scholarship Fund (CPSF) opened today and we’re pleased to announce that this is now available to self-funded international students. Due to the effects of the pandemic, we know that for some researchers, even with adjustments and mitigation, it is not possible to complete your doctorate within your funding … Continue reading Covid-19 PhD Scholarship Fund (CPSF) – Round 3 open
We are now accepting applications to the York Learning and Teaching Award (YLTA) for 2021/22 entry. YLTA is a taught-course designed to support York-based Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) to reflect on and develop your practice. It is also intended to help you plan for future employment. For this reason, YLTA challenges participants to look beyond … Continue reading York Learning and Teaching Award (YLTA) 2021/22 Applications now open
Software Sustainability in Practice brings together researchers from different disciplines with an interest in sustainable software development and its links with open and reproducible research practices. Software Sustainability in Practice Tuesday 20 April 202110-11.30amOnline event Confirmed speakers include Prof Simon Hettrick (Software Sustainability Institute Deputy Director), Dr Jon Hill (SSI Fellow and Senior Lecturer in … Continue reading Online event: Software Sustainability in Practice
The York Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum shows you how to use the knowledge and skills from a dozen different disciplines to enrich your knowledge and in particular to introduce you to a whole range of intellectual tools for you to use in your research. The York Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum is hosting an online taster session from 2-3pm … Continue reading Attend the York Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum taster session
Join a webinar for doctoral students and early career researchers. Making better policies for food systemsThursday 29 April 20213-4pmOnline The new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report ‘Making better policies for food systems’ brings together decades of OECD research and policy recommendations into a coherent view on food systems to support policy makers … Continue reading Making better policies for food systems
Wentworth College are running free online writing retreats for postgraduate students and researchers. The aim of the retreat is to give dedicated writing time to those in need of progressing their projects, providing a supportive environment and an opportunity to share good writing practice with other writers. Example projects include book or thesis chapters, journal … Continue reading Join an online writing retreat
The Centre for Lifelong Learning provides a dynamic programme of over 300 adult evening and day courses which attract almost 3000 applications each year. Students come from a range of backgrounds, whether they are looking to gain University accreditation or learn on a non-accredited basis. The Centre would welcome the opportunity to work with departments, … Continue reading Work with the Centre for Lifelong Learning
From Monday 15 March, the Library will be open from 8am until 12 midnight, seven days a week. Starting Monday 29 March, staff and students will be able to access the Rare Books collections and the Archives from Monday to Wednesday. The intention is to reopen King’s Manor Library from mid-April and the physical Help … Continue reading Library: extended opening hours from Monday
