The good news keeps coming for us this awards season! Following on from some fantastic successes at the YAYAs, we are incredibly proud of YCEDE Scholars Board Member Melissa Williams, who has won the University of York Inclusivity Network Award for her pioneering work in establishing the Anti-Racism Working Group (ARWG) at York. Since the ARWG’s inception in 2020, Mel has been …
On Friday 17th November, University of York staff from across Equity & Diversity, Access & Outreach, and YCEDE Teams attended the 2023 Yorkshire Asian Young Achievers Awards in Bradford, where we were delighted to celebrate some of the outstanding achievements of YCEDE scholars and York students: Huge congratulations to YGRS PhD scholarship holder Mohammad Malik, who won the award for Achievement in …
As part of Cancer Research UK’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Research, they have developed this scholarship programme in consultation with the research community and in close collaboration with expert partners, Black in Cancer and the Windsor Fellowship. For the second year of the programme a total of four PhD scholarships will be available in 2024. The Scholarship Programme will be providing a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship (non-clinical), …
The University of Bradford is pleased to be marking Black History Month 2023. They have put together a programme in collaboration between the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity (CfID) and the Students’ Union. One of their events which is open to the public is ‘Intergenerational Discussion – Black Female Professors & Black Students. Further details and how to register.
The Royal Society has launched a new Fellowships scheme for early career researchers (ECRs). The Career Development Fellowship is a 4-year postdoctoral research fellowship which aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. This first call, opening on 7 November and closing on 24 January, will be run as a pilot, with the potential to expand to a broader …
The following conference may be of interest. The Institute for Educational and Social Equity’s Annual Conference ‘Equity in Education & Society’ is taking place on January 31st 2024. You can read the call for papers and, for those wishing to present a paper at the conference, the final date to submit an abstract is Friday 17th November 2023. Abstracts can …
This year, the University of York is celebrating BlackHistoryMonth (BHM) with the theme Saluting Our Sisters. The webpage highlights the report “‘Everything is racialised on top’: Black and racially minoritised girls’ and women’s experiences of public sexual harassment in the UK”. This report, produced by colleagues at York, is the first on this issue in the UK. It demonstrates the prevalence and forms of sexual harassment …
Organised by Brad-ATTAIN in collaboration with YCEDE (The Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education), the seminar series aim to inform, raise awareness and help to create pathways to academia for minoritised ethnicities. Please note, this event is aimed at candidates from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds and who have UK ‘home’ student status. However, we do welcome all …
We want to share some great news from YCEDE. We nominated two PhD students for a Yorkshire Asian Young Achiever (YAYA) award and they have been shortlisted! Zenab our YCEDE Scholar in the Mental Health category – who you can listen to on BBC Radio Leeds – and Mohammad in the Education category are the ones to look out for and …
Lucy Clague and Colin McCaig recently participated in NEON’s Summer Symposium held at the University of Exeter. As part of their attendance, they delivered a presentation focusing on the challenges faced in evaluating collaborative postgraduate widening participation programmes, drawing on their involvement in the YCEDE programme and other initiatives. Their paper was one of three presented within the session, that …