News and information for all postgraduate researchers at the University of York.
Elevate your academic writing this spring with the Academic Skills Community‘s series of workshops to fine-tune your writing skills. Whether you’re looking to polish your drafts, ensure your work is error-free, or master the essentials of academic integrity, we’ve got the workshop for you:
XR Network+ is running a free, part-time XR Accelerator for people working in extended reality (XR) and virtual production (VP) technologies at UK universities. The programme is open to early-mid career researchers, late-stage PhD students and research-engaged technicians and provides a unique opportunity for participants to develop entrepreneurial skills, explore what goes into creating a … Continue reading XR Accelerator
In November 2023, YGRS ran focus groups and a survey with current PGRs to gather your suggestions for improving the support for PGRs from offer to enrolment. Three main themes emerged: problems with finding accommodation, not feeling connected to the University or the University community, and a lack of understanding on starting a PGR degree. … Continue reading You said, we did: Acting on your enrolment feedback
The University of York has been involved in a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) project looking at the experience of postgraduate researchers and supervisors from a range of diverse institutional, disciplinary, and social contexts, and explored how they managed (or not) the impact of the pandemic in a number of institutions across the globe. We would love for you to … Continue reading Invitation to join the closing Event for “Research supervision and mentorship practices supporting doctoral researchers”
Environmental Sustainability at York (ESAY) is currently recruiting graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to support the delivery of our new York Interdisciplinary Modules (YIMs). These are a suite of innovative modules which have been designed to equip students to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams to solve local, regional and global sustainability challenges. To find out more … Continue reading York Interdisciplinary Modules – GTAs wanted
The Writing Centre is seeking to recruit three Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) writing tutors. Tutors provide 30-minute appointments (face-to-face and online) to students from all disciplines who come to the Centre to discuss their writing. Advice relates to such areas as focus, structure, argument, citation and referencing, writing style, language and grammar. In addition, with … Continue reading Be a Writing Centre tutor
Thursday 18 January 2024, 10:00 – 14:30, H/G21 Eynns Room, Heslington Hall Big environmental problems can’t be solved by siloed researchers working independently; an interdisciplinary approach is needed. Working across disciplines, however, can throw up unexpected challenges which training within disciplines doesn’t prepare you for. This interdisciplinary training workshop aims to help participants think more … Continue reading YESI Scholars: Interdisciplinary Research Training
Applications for the Turing PhD Enrichment scheme are now open for entry in October 2024. These are intended for PhD students in their research phase (typically 2nd year) and allow the recipient to spend 6-9 months working with a mentor at The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) in London and carry a small stipend. Hybrid working … Continue reading Turing PhD Enrichment scheme info session
YGRS is investigating how we can support offer holders to make the transition into postgraduate research. Please take part in our focus groups or survey and share your insights into how the stage from offer to enrolment was for you. Please take part in our short survey (deadline 24 November) to improve things for future … Continue reading How was your journey to becoming a PGR? Deadline extended
Are you passionate about science? Public engagement? Pubs!? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be interested in helping to run the Pint of Science festival in York in 2024! What is Pint of Science? Pint of Science is an international science communication festival that happens annually over three evenings in … Continue reading Get involved with Pint of Science
