Annual General Meeting 2021
Please find the minutes of our Annual General Meeting here You can also watch the full contents of our AGM below!
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GSA Annual General Meeting – 28th July 2021
The York Graduate Students’ Association Annual General Meeting which will be held at 6pm on Wednesday 28th July. Please sign up to the event here. To recieve the Zoom link for the event, you must sign up before 12 noon on Wednesday 28th July. The AGM is a chance to find out what we have…
VP Academic Reducing GSA Working Hours Throughout August
It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog post for the GSA. They’re normally long and contain information about the work I’ve been doing as VP Academic. This one contains some personal news. I’m incredibly lucky to be offered and to be taking up a position as College Life Coordinator within Halifax College…
York Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum Statement
Dear University of York Postgraduates, The YPIF Committee would like to thank the many attendees from a variety of disciplines who attended our ‘Exploring Research Paradigms’ event on Wednesday. We really appreciate your participation and hope to see you at future seminars and workshops. We have been made aware that a few people were offended…
What happened at Council? 01/03/2021
Last week’s council session was packed with interesting motions brought by members. The first motion brought to the meeting asked Council to mandate the GSA to lobby the university for tuition fee refunds for the 20/21 academic year due to the negative impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on the university experience. One council member spoke…
A message from your Sustainability Officer
Hi Everyone! Last week I held the first Sustainability Student Group Meeting as part of my Sustainability Part-Time Officer role at the GSA. Thank you to those that joined! Currently I’m working on a sustainability policy for both the GSA and the University. The GSA policy will contain objectives and targets so that the GSA…
GSA Term 2 Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the GSA Term 2 elections. Thank you very much to all our candidates for putting themselves forward for roles and to the voters for taking part in the election process! You can find the results below: Management: MSc In Accounting and Financial Management – SISHANG ZENG. MSc…
International Women’s Day
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #ChooseToChallenge. According to the IWD website “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to…
Academic Representation Strategy Consultation Announcement
After three years of rapid development of our academic representation system the GSA is looking at how we continue to expand and support representation within departments at the University of York. We have rapidly expanded our academic representation system increasing the number of Reps and the support that we give them. We want this trajectory…
What have we been doing to improve mental health at York?
By Clara Garcia, our VP Wellbeing and Community During the past year and a half most student services and the way they are being delivered have changed, but the increasing need of students to get more support from University has continued to rise. As I already stated in my manifesto, students’ mental health needs to…
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