Last week, we hosted the second edition of our Circle Mentoring programme, offering our seven of our PGRs the opportunity to connect with three experienced professionals and discuss their professional development. The session was focused on science communications, marketing and people science career paths with insights from three knowledgeable and inspiring mentors, Jenna Spencer-Briggs, Karolina Urbanska and Sarah Sabir. Our …
We are excited to announce our upcoming circle mentoring session as part of YCEDE’S programme for PGRs on Thursday 22nd August 2024 between 5-7pm. Circle mentoring is a collaborative approach to mentorship that fosters learning, growth, and support among a group of individuals. The session offers mentees the opportunity to connect with 2-3 mentors from a similar field simultaneously and …
Thursday 25th April 2024 saw YCEDE hosting a wonderful event at The University of Sheffield about navigating a career in higher education as an ethnic minority. It was an incredible turnout, the likes of which included YCEDE Staff, Scholarship Holders and ethnically-minoritized PGR’s from all partner institutions ((The University of York, The University of Bradford, Sheffield Hallam University, The University …
Join us in Sheffield on 25th April for an empowering in-person event, Navigating Academia as an Ethnic Minority, where we’ll share experiences and provide support. Book your place here via Eventbrite Navigating Academia as an Ethnic Minority Brought to you by Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE)*. Are you an ethnic minority PhD home student at one of the …
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 …
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 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 …
Are you: Then this is the event for you! We are Panorama, a Doctoral Training Partnership hosted at the Universities of Leeds, York and Hull, and we’ll be demystifying our PhD application process in a live Q&A with current PhD students and staff. They will provide you with advice and tips on everything from the nuts-and-bolts of the application process to what being a PhD student in …