Communications Office

The Communications Office promotes all aspects of the University's work to its wide range of stakeholders.  At a University level, we manage reputation through media relations, brand management, government relations, outreach, marketing and community relations. We also work closely with departments to advise and support them in communications and marketing via media relations, internal communications, publications and the management of their web presence.

University magazine – November/December 2011

November/December 2011 Magazine cover

Featuring:

  • York filmmaker exposes modern day slavery
  • an interview with historian and author Alison Weir
  • focus on Derwent College
  • news and events from across the University

Read the November/December 2011 issue

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Stethoscope (c) Flickr/ernstl
Using economic evaluations for drug reimbursement decisions - what have we achieved?

Posted on Thursday 9 February 2012

Researchers at the University of York perform evaluations of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of drugs for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).


Medieval charter E-40-13423. Photo courtesy of The National Archives UK
York and Brighton researchers 'dig for data'

Posted on Wednesday 8 February 2012

Historians, archivists and experts in computer science from the Universities of York and Brighton are teaming up to develop new ways of exploring digital historical records.


The ultimate magnetic storage medium, consisting of many individual nanometre sized magnetic grains with a density of 10 petabytes/m^2. The data is written to the device using an ultrafast heating process to drive the reversal at a data rate of 200Gb/s. Credit: Richard Evans, University of York
Scientists 'record' magnetic breakthrough

Posted on Tuesday 7 February 2012

An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.


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