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Your Postgrad Guide to the Winter Break

Your Postgrad Guide to the Winter Break

You might be wondering quite what happens at the University of York outside of term time. When is anything open? Are there any events on? Will there be any porters around? That’s why we are bringing you our Winter Booklet with all of the important information between the 6th December and the 10th January This…

8th December 2021

New Job Opportunities at the GSA

New Job Opportunities at the GSA

We have two new roles available to work at the GSA: An Academic Welfare Advisor and a Community, Events and Welfare Coordinator. For more details about both of these positions, please visit: https://www.yorkgsa.org/about-the-gsa/gsa-recruitment/

28th October 2021

6 Questions for your Sabb - Jia

6 Questions for your Sabb – Jia

We asked our new Sabbatical Officers six questions, to help you learn a little bit about them, and for them to help you understand a bit more about Postgrad life at York. What’s your role in under 30 words? My official role title is VP Wellbeing and Community. In short, this is a role that…

18th October 2021

Black History Month Design Competition 

Black History Month Design Competition 

We’re your students’ union. We want to make sure that we look how you want us to look. For Black History Month we are launching a Design Competition for Black artists, redesigning the BAME Students’ Network logo. We want to recognise the achievements of black creatives at the University of York while also letting you…

18th October 2021

Purnur Altay - President - End of Year Blog

Purnur Altay – President – End of Year Blog

Hello all, for every good thing in life, there is also an end, and I am about to finish my second term in the office on 31 August. In this short blog I wanted to look back and reflect on the last two years where I had the pleasure of trying to make your experience…

24th August 2021

Jane Baston - VP Academic - End of Year Blog

Jane Baston – VP Academic – End of Year Blog

Write a blog covering everything you’ve done in two years, they said. You’ve been here for two years, there must be loads to talk about. However when I think back over the last two years most of it blurs into one long line of meetings, email and lots of papers to read. That’s probably what…

24th August 2021

Annual General Meeting 2021

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!

16th August 2021

GSA Annual General Meeting - 28th July 2021

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…

27th July 2021

VP Academic Reducing GSA Working Hours Throughout August

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…

19th July 2021

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…

16th April 2021