Help celebrate LGBT+ History Month 2024 by raising awareness, attending events and organising events in your own department.

Disability History Month is an opportunity to celebrate the lives and achievements of disabled people.

Monday 13 - Sunday 19 November is Trans Awareness Week, and Monday 20 November is Trans Day of Remembrance.

The theme for this year's Dyslexia Awareness Week is #UniquelyYou, and we aim to inspire everyone to value and appreciate individuals with dyslexia.

We're celebrating Black History Month 2023 throughout October.

Bi Visibility Day is on Saturday 23 September. We will be flying the Bi Visibility flag on campus in the week leading up to it.

Help celebrate Black History Month 2023 by raising awareness, attending events and organising events in your own department.

Disability Pride Month takes place each July. For some it may be a time to celebrate their individual success and for others to celebrate the feeling of pride about being disabled.

This new process sets out roles and responsibilities, has an Individual Adjustments Plan that line managers and members of staff can work through and record any agreed adjustments and provides some useful guidance for line managers.

June 19-25 is Refugee Week and to celebrate this we will be holding a number of events while raising awareness of issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers and the support that’s available at the University and within the city.

We have a strong tradition of marking Pride Month with involvement in events on and off-campus, and we're pleased to continue that tradition in 2023.

The theme for Deaf Awareness Week 2023 is Access to Communication. The aim is to raise awareness about the communication challenges faced by deaf people and promote better access to communication tools and services.

Trans Day of Visibility takes place on 31 March each year to celebrate trans and nonbinary people and raise awareness of discrimination faced by trans people worldwide.To mark the day, we will be flying the trans flag on campus on the flag mound beside Central Hall.

Wishing all our Muslim staff and students a blessed Ramadan and Eid Mubarak.The month of Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic year and will take place between 22 March and 20/21 April this year (depending on moon sightings).

We'll be celebrating neurodiversity week from Monday 13 to Sunday 19 March 2023.

Celebrate this year's International Women's Day with events on campus and elsewhere in York.

Race Equality Week (6 to 12 February) is a UK-wide initiative aimed at uniting organisations and individuals in activities to address the barriers to race equality in the workplace.

Congratulations to the Departments of Health Sciences and Environment and Geography on achieving their silver Athena Swan awards and the School of PET on their first school Athena Swan bronze award.

To celebrate this year's LGBT+ History Month, we're holding a range of events during February.