Welcome To Your Graduate Students' Association

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Who Are We?

At the University of York, the Graduate Students' Association (GSA) represents all postgraduate students and all postgraduate students are automatically a member. We were formed in the early years of the University to specifically cater for the needs of postgraduate students, and are housed in dedicated office in Wentworth Graduate College. We are run by an executive committee, comprised of MA, MPhil and PhD students alike, with 5 part-time sabbatical officers elected in the summer term, and a number of non-sabbatical posts elected in the autumn term.

What Do We Do?

Although a lot tends to span one or more of these areas, our tasks are often conveniently split into six key units:

1. Representation - fighting specifically for post-graduate students in numerous important university committees.
2. Welfare - providing information, assistance and support in welfare matters.
3. Academic - offering assistance, advice and support in academic appeals.
4. Services - providing things like a cheap photocopying/fax and laptop lending.
5. Events - organising both regular and one-off social events, including trips.
6. Sports - providing regular free sports sessions, as well as organising postgraduate participation within the college sports league.

Why Do We Exist?

Postgraduates make up over a quarter of the student body at York, and this strength in numbers, along with our differing needs from undergraduates, ensures that the University recognises us as an independant entity. In fact we are currently only one of two Graduate-only Students Associations in the UK to be funded and run this way.

More in depth information about what we do, including how to contact us, can be accessed by clicking on the relevant headings at the top of the page, or come into our Wentworth Office and speak to us!

The Graduate Students' Association
University of York