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 …
Black History Month: What’s On?
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 …
Brad-ATTAIN Seminar Series: Literature Review and What to Expect in Year 1
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 …
Great News for YCEDE!
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 …
YCEDE team attends NEON’s Summer Symposium
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 …
Register to become a YCEDE Mentor!
The Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) would like to invite you to our next cohort of Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) mentoring programme. The YCEDE PGR Mentoring programme has been created in consultation and collaboration with staff and PGRs from across the consortium to provide a bespoke mentoring programme for UK black, Asian and minority ethnic* PGRs. The purpose …
Please complete this survey!
King’s College London, who are conducting the overarching evaluation strategy for YCEDE, have asked that staff and students fill out this survey to give your thoughts on the project so far. Complete this survey is you are a staff member. Complete this survey if you are a student. Please can you ensure you complete this as fully as possible as …
Report outlines key recommendations to broaden diversity of PhD students in life sciences
A new report has revealed some of the barriers prospective students face in studying life sciences at postdoctoral level. The conclusions and recommendations are included in a new report which reveals that black graduates, women and those who have non-graduate parents are less likely to succeed in the life sciences at PhD level. The report, which was commissioned by the …
The University of York’s plan to decolonise Chemistry
If you are interested in how chemistry can be more inclusive and diverse, you should read this article by Nature. It tells the story of how a group of chemists at the University of York are working to decolonise their curriculum and address systemic racism in their field. They are doing this by revising their course content, diversifying their reading …
University of York welcomes new Chancellor Dr Heather Melville
The University of York’s new Chancellor today (18 Jan) said she was “humbled and excited” as she was formally welcomed at a special inauguration ceremony. Dr Heather Melville, OBE, became the University’s seventh Chancellor during a ceremony at the University of York’s Central Hall, attended by heads of academic departments and centres, Faculty Deans and University officials and specially invited …