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Category: Postgraduate research

  • What is the GSA? What does it involve?

    18 February 2020 by Janet
    2 minute read

    The Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) is an organisation for postgraduate students (Masters and PhD students) that arranges activities. It also provides support in students’ academic and well-being. As a postgraduate…

  • PhD student supervisions with a toddler: the campus environment

    10 February 2020 by Laura
    2 minute read

    Being a parent as well as a PhD student means that sometimes the two spheres of your life overlap. This happens for me when I need to attend supervision meetings…

  • The F Word: Funding Postgraduate Research

    7 June 2018 by Alice
    4 minute read

    It’s not often something we like to talk about, but it’s an unavoidable fact that starting a PhD doesn’t just require time and effort, but can also be major a…

  • Living and learning in York as a Postgraduate Research Student

    Living and learning in York as a Postgraduate Research Student

    10 April 2018 by Alice
    2 minute read

    In March 2018 York was named the UK’s best place to live by The Sunday Times and, having lived here myself for a little under two years now, I can’t…

  • A Week in the Life of a Postgraduate Research Student

    19 March 2018 by Alice
    5 minute read

    My name is Alice and I’m a postgraduate research student studying for a PhD with the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies. There are…

  • Why I Chose York for Postgraduate Research

    Why I Chose York for Postgraduate Research

    4 January 2018 by Alice
    3 minute read

    It’s no secret that starting a PhD is a big commitment and, for me, like many others, that meant that choosing where to carry out my doctoral research was a…