By Clara M. Garcia (VP Wellbeing and Community) Overview The barriers to access to get assistance funding from UoY are a deterrent to students in need. Applications take too long to fill in, with specific evidence required that can put off students in need and with an excess of personal data being requested to share….
This October, the GSA held their annual autumn elections to elect students into Part-Time Officer, Course Representative, GTA Representative and Scrutiny Officer positions. With over 200 nominations for roles, we were thrilled to fill lots of these positions. However, not all these roles were filled and some roles students voted to re-open nominations. Therefore, in…
Over the last few days, your newly elected Course Representatives have been voting to elect your Faculty Representatives for the 20/21 academic year. We can now announce that the results are as follows: Faculty Representative for Sciences: Chris Murray – 5 votes Harry Whish – 2 votes RON (RE-Open Nominations) – 1 vote Chris…
In light of the Government announcement of a second period of lockdown measures in England, we, as the GSA’s Sabbatical Officer Team, wanted to address the concerns you might have. Even before the lockdown was announced, we have been working hard to move our activities and events online and provide you the support that you…
Over the last week, you have been voting in our Autumn 2020 Elections for Course Representatives and GTA Representatives. Voting was open between 14th and 21st October. Well done to all of the candidates who put themselves forward for positions and have been campaigning all week! Find out who you have voted for as your…
Over the last week, you have been voting in our Autumn 2020 Elections for Part-Time Officers. Voting was open between 14th and 21st October. Well done to all of the candidates who put themselves forward for positions and have been campaigning all week! Find out who you have voted for as your new Part-Time Officers…
Read the full vision here In October 2019, GSA VP Wellbeing&Community, GSA VP Academic, and YUSU Academic Officer initiated a campaign to decolonise and diversify the University of York. The focus of the campaign was to work with student groups in order to deliver to the University a vision of our contributions in the task…
Over the past few weeks, the GSA staff team has been tirelessly at work, planning our Welcome Week for incoming Postgraduate students. There’s been some key developments in the past few weeks, particularly the recent government guidelines which limit socialising in groups of more than six, which have forced us to reevaluate our plans. We’ve…
Hi, I’m Hazel and I’m the part-time Events and Communities Coordinator at the GSA. I’m also a postgraduate student here at the University of York and I’m working towards my MA in Eighteenth Century literature. Every year the GSA organises one of the only postgraduate-specific Welcome Weeks in the UK. There are events and activities…
When I became an officer last year this was the headline of my manifesto, where I detailed a small set of expectations for the year that can be reduced to: change the prizes on student housing, improving the university’s mental health services, promote transparency of the institutional structure and resources (both at a union and…
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