We are incredibly proud to share that YCEDE’s very own Raj Mann has been awarded The Phoenix Award at the Inclusive Impact Awards 2025! This award honours individuals who ‘Rise Through Unprecedented Times’ – those who demonstrate extraordinary care, adaptation, and strength in protecting community wellbeing during challenging times. The award recognised Raj’s outstanding contribution to EDI and wellbeing, and …
A huge congratulations to University of York Chemistry staff and students who have won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2025 Horizon Prize for Education! The group – Caroline Dessent, Leonie Jones, Avtar Matharu, David Smith, Ruhee Dawood, Samantha Furfari, Kgato Selwe, Amelia Milner and Kelechi Uleanya – was awarded the prize “for championing decolonisation of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum, through …
Research experience summer internships A research experience internship will provide you with hands-on experience of conducting academic research and is an opportunity for you to increase your subject knowledge and research skills. It will also help you to make a more informed choice about postgraduate research study. For summer 2025, we have 16 projects available across a range of subject …
Report by Amira Samatar (YCEDE Scholars Board) and Jack Harris (YCEDE Project Assistant) On Thursday 23rd January, YCEDE and the University of York were delighted to host the Aziz Foundation’s first “Muslim Friendly Universities” Conference. Attended by a sold out crowd of 90 academics and PGRs from across the country, the event was a huge success which included stimulating debates, …
Call for Papers Our Call for Papers is open for the third annual ‘Race’ and Socially Engaged Research Conference. This interdisciplinary PGR-led conference is for researchers in the early career stages who conduct critical research pertaining to ‘race’, racialisation, racism, in a socially engaged, liberatory and/or transformative manner. This event is an opportunity to share research and scholar-activism in an accessible, ‘safe’ and critical space that centres …
We are delighted to share a newly published journal article from our WS2 colleagues Professor Paul Wakeling and Dr Bukola Oyinloye, titled “British supervisors’ conceptions of ideal and successful PhD attributes and their implications for equity in doctoral candidate selection”. You can view the article on the journal website here: British supervisors’ conceptions of ideal and successful PhD attributes and …
YCEDE Advocacy Scheme co-ordinator George Gisborne sat down to discuss how the scheme worked out for one of the pairings in the last academic year. Aisha Mariam joined the Advocacy Scheme in September 2023 while studying an MSc in Materials Science at the University of Sheffield. She joined the scheme interested in a PhD in Chemical Engineering (her BEng subject) …
The Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR OCTOBER 2025 START Three Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. These scholarships are part of our wider commitment to postgraduate diversity and inclusion as outlined by the Access and Student Success …
Registration is now open for interested members of academic, research and professional services staff who have lived experience, research experience or awareness of the cultural context of underrepresented groups in higher education to become a YCEDE mentor. For more information, including how to apply, please see the document below.
The Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) are delighted to announce our programme of online events providing information, advice and guidance around PhD application and study for 2024/25. These webinars are for designed for Black, Asian and minority ethnic graduates and undergraduates with UK fee status interested in studying a PhD. Registration is open for all webinars, with …