Following on from the Brad-ATTAIN/YCEDE seminar: What is a PhD and How to Apply session, YCEDE are proud to present a new session around Directly Funded PhDs – STEM CDTs, DTPs and fully funded PhDs. The benefits of studying your PhD with a CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training) or DTP (Doctoral Training Partnership) are numerous: full funding for 4 years …
Organised by the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), this event will raise awareness of the many funding paths available to BAME students – including doctoral training partnerships, scholarships, and self-funding. YCEDE is a collaboration between five universities in Yorkshire, 12 UKRI funded Doctoral Training partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training plus several external partners dedicated to equity …
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. The event is open to all. During the session, Dr Tiffany R. Holloman and current PhD students Frederick Kandala, Zenab Sabahat and Robert Douglas will share their …
Yesterday the YCEDE Workstream 2 team travelled to Sheffield Hallam University to deliver a workshop on equity in doctoral selection and admission. This full-day workshop was aimed at colleagues in Workstream 2 pilot schools, departments and DTPs, as well as those working in relevant central services and functions. The workshop covered the following topics: We were once again welcomed by …
On the 2nd November, the YCEDE team attended the inaugural University of York Inclusive Impact Award event. The project was nominated for an award in the ‘Inclusive Partnerships’ category – and won first prize! As a reminder, the Inclusive Impact Awards recognise the innovative and inspiring EDI work of students and staff that is already making a measurable difference across …
This week the University of Bradford held their internal launch for the YCEDE and Brad-ATTAIN programmes. As you already know, YCEDE is a collaboration between five universities in Yorkshire, 12 UKRI funded Doctoral Training partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training plus a number of external partners dedicated to equity at doctoral level. However, Bradford is also running the Brad-ATTAIN (Bradford …
Happy Black History Month! We thought we would share the amazing work of our partner universities and direct you to some of our favourite events that are being held. At the moment, we are working on a newsletter to keep you up to date with all that YCEDE is doing this month. Until then, have a great October! University of …
Thursday 20th October 9 AM to 5 PM online via zoom* This one-day workshop is being offered by Generation Delta for women who identify as Black, Asian and/or from minority ethnic communities. It is open to current UK/’Home’ undergraduate and master’s students and those who may have left academia but are planning to return to study for a doctoral degree …
The Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford is proud to announce that we have opened enrolment for the Brad-ATTAIN Research Summer School. The Research Summer Schools is free and aims to expand the awareness of doing a PhD to 3rd year undergraduates, master students and alumni from Black, Asian and other minoritised groups. The summer schools …
It’s now been a whole two weeks since the first YCEDE workshops! These were the launch workshops for Workstream 2 held at the Principal Hotel in York. As you are aware, YCEDE is a four-year project based on collaboration between five universities in Yorkshire. Funded by the Office for Students and Research England, it focuses on questions of access to …