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Activities and events

If you're looking for more activities to get involved in, or more ways to stay connected to the Wentworth Graduate College community, join us on Facebook. There you'll find other events that might not make it onto the website, as well as other opportunities to stay connected.

Non-Wentworth postgraduates, online distance learners, staff and Early Career Researchers can sign up to our regular newsletter by completing this form.

If there is an event you would like to see happen, or anything you would like to offer that we can support, please let us know at wentworth@york.ac.uk.

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Monday 8 December 2025 3pm - 5pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates

Wentworth Christmas Tree Decorating and Mince Pies

Monday 8 December 2025 3pm - 5pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates

'Tis the season! - Join us Monday 8th December at 3pm as we get into the festive spirit and decorate the Wentworth Common room and the shiny new christmas tree! We'll be making the space look extra festive with plenty of tinsel, and playing the best christmas tunes!

We'll have hot chocolate and mince pies too, so be sure to come and join us to kickstart the festive season!

Event

Tuesday 9 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Wentworth Brunch

Tuesday 9 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Join us for a FREE postgraduate brunch!

Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat, and Fresh Fruit while stocks last as well as tea and coffee.

First come, first served!

Event

Wednesday 10 December 2025 9am - 10am

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

[Online Event] Wentworth Academic: The Art of Presenting: From Nervous to Natural

Wednesday 10 December 2025 9am - 10am

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

For postgrads! An online session looking at the art of overcoming presentation anxiety and creating great presentations.

In this session we will look at strategies for overcoming presentation anxiety and becoming a more confident speaker. We will also delve into the art of creating compelling presentations that keep your audience engaged and informed.

The session will be taking place online, and you can sign up for access by filling in the google form here

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Event

Thursday 11 December 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

POSTGRADUATE SOUP! (Free food!)

Thursday 11 December 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Free food!

Join us in the Wentworth Postgraduate Hub (B/R/016) for hot soup, or a hot drink (coffee, tea, chai, hot chocolate...) and biscuits, and a relaxed chat with the college team and other Postgraduates!

Event

Monday 15 December 2025 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Wentworth

Wentworth Christmas Crafternoon: Christmas Decoration Making!

Monday 15 December 2025 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Wentworth

Come and make some Christmas tree decorations to decorate your flat with! We will provide the materials but please feel free to bring your own to make it unique! You can bring newspapers, old book pages, or even your own patterned/coloured papers.

We'll be making the Wentworth Hub cozy and Christmasy - with plenty of mince pies and cocoa, as well as festive music to get us in the mood!

Limited spots so please make sure you book a spot here.

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Event

Tuesday 16 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Wentworth Brunch

Tuesday 16 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Join us for a FREE postgraduate brunch!

Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat, and Fresh Fruit while stocks last as well as tea and coffee.

First come, first served!

Event

Thursday 18 December 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

PG Good Soup + Toasties (Free food!)

Thursday 18 December 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Free food!

Join us in the Wentworth Postgraduate Hub (B/R/016) for hot cheese toasties, the usual soup, or a hot drink (coffee, tea, chai, hot chocolate...) and biscuits, and a relaxed chat with the college team and other Postgraduates!

Event

Friday 19 December 2025 1pm - 7pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates

Wentworth Christmas Movie Marathon!

Friday 19 December 2025 1pm - 7pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates

A full afternoon of Christmas Movies!!

Join us in B/R/016 for a fun start to your festive holiday!

On Friday 19th December we'll be screening Christmas classics all afternoon! We'll start with 'THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL' at 1pm. We'll then watch ELF at 3pm, and then DIE HARD at 5pm.

We'll be providing popcorn, festive snacks and drinks - so just come down and join us for some festive cheer!

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Monday 22 December 2025 6pm - 9pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Wentworth

Wentworth Christmas Quiz Night

Monday 22 December 2025 6pm - 9pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Wentworth

A fun test of knowledge and smarts with a festive twist - come along for laughs and some challenging questions at Wentworth's Postgraduate Festive Quiz Night!

Teams will be up to six people, we'll have plenty of snacks and the winners get a prize!

Location: the Wentworth College Hub B/R/016 (The Wentworth Hub doesn't have a bar, so be sure to bring your own drinks if you want to get in the pub-quiz spirit!)

This is a postgrad only event, and entry is free - just come along and join a team!

Event

Tuesday 23 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Wentworth Christmas Brunch

Tuesday 23 December 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub (Biology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates/Wentworth

Join us for a FREE Christmas themed brunch!

We'll have the usual Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat, and Fresh Fruit, with a few more festive treats thrown in for good measure - as well as tea and coffee!

First come, first served!

Event

Wednesday 7 January 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

[Online Event] Wentworth Academic: Dissertations - Finding and using Literature

Wednesday 7 January 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

An online postgraduate session where we discuss the process of literature searching and how to read and use literature in your work.

The session will be taking place online, and you can sign up for access by filling in the google form here

A Zoom link will be sent to all sign-ups the day before the session

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Event

Wednesday 21 January 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

Wentworth Academic: Making a start with your Dissertation

Wednesday 21 January 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

An online postgraduate session where we will provide an overview of your dissertation / thesis. What goes into it? How do you make a start?!

In this session we will introduce the basics of writing a dissertation. What is the rationale behind your writing? What do the markers want to see? What help is available? What is the structure - and what do we include in the main sections: Introduction, method, results and discussion?

This is an overview session, and following sessions will go into more detail about the individual sections.

The session will take place ONLINE. Please use the google form below to sign up using your UoY email address: https://forms.gle/pYaZR1qhLyXjnU3U9

A link to the Zoom session will be sent out the day before the workshop

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Event

Wednesday 4 February 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

[Online Event] Wentworth Academic: Dissertations, the Discussion and final touches

Wednesday 4 February 2026 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

An online postgraduate session where we will provide an overview of your discussion and conclusion section, as well as how we add the final touches to the dissertation

How do we discuss our results and bring everything together in an interesting way? How do we find meaning in our results and relate them to the literature? What questions do our results raise, and how can we acknowledge and account for unforeseen limitations of our research? Finally we will look at how we tie the discussion section back to our introduction and how to write a compelling abstract.

The session will be taking place online, and you can sign up for access by filling in the google form here

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Recurring events

The following events are staples on the Wentworth calendar. Keep up to date with when they’re next on by checking the events feed, social media or Wentworth newsletter.

Wentworth in Town 

Wentworth in town is a series of guest speaker events with networking and discussion. It’s a friendly and supportive environment among peers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. 

The events take place at Wentworth, online and at King’s Manor in the city centre.

Students listening to a presentation

York Research Talks

York Research Talks is a series of public engagement events targeted at research students (PhD, MRes) and early career researchers at York who have not had opportunities to present their research. The public facing events will:
• Provide postgrads and ECRs with the opportunity to present their research in a comfortable and supportive environment via a series of three public outreach style events.
• Fill the gap in opportunities for PhD/ECRs/MRes to gain experience in presenting their work outside that offered in their department.
• Encourage interdisciplinary interactions within the postgraduate community.
• Encourage interaction between postgraduates/ECRs and the wider York community

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The Emerging Researchers’ Forum

The Emerging Researchers’ Forum is a new informal network for researchers (PhD, MRes, ECRs) to share knowledge, offer peer-support and socialise with those at a similar level within the university. The Forum aims to bridge the gap between PhDs and ECRs in providing a platform for skill sharing in an unassuming and friendly setting with events and activities geared to improving the researcher experience.

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York Postgraduate Free School

The York Postgraduate Free School is a platform that facilitates the free exchange of knowledge- and skill-sharing and for the meeting of like-minded community. The main objective is to take learning beyond the rigid academic setting of a lecture hall or seminar, to liberate knowledge from university, and to share skills not often valued by formal systems of education. Postgraduate members at the University of York are encouraged to propose to teach a class on anything (These classes can come in any format imaginable: classes, discussions, workshops, screening, reading groups, field trips, gatherings, and more) and/or also participate as a learner. For more information on how to get involved please join our Facebook page.

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Wentworth Writing Retreats

The aim of a writing retreat is to give dedicated writing time to those in need of progressing their projects, providing a supportive environment and an opportunity to share good writing practice with other writers. 

Example projects include writing book or thesis chapters, journal articles, research proposals, conference abstracts/papers, reports, etc.

Each event includes writing and planning activities, followed by intense, short periods of writing, and structured breaks that include movement activities. Please note: this is not a teaching activity.

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