Accessibility statement

Academic progress: research students

A student in a lab coat doing research, reaching for plants in a jar.

Resources and training

  • Staff supporting students web pages provide advice and guidance for assisting students experiencing a range of difficulties.
  • The student support and advice and health and wellbeing pages also outline various avenues of support for students experiencing difficulties, and provide a useful resource for signposting students to sources of help. 
  • Mental Health First Aid training is available to all staff. This can be booked via the Learning Management System (log in and search for Mental Health and select either the full (15 hour) or lite (3.5 hour) version of the course to see and book on to upcoming sessions).

Support to study

The Support to study policy applies to situations where there are concerns that a student is not well enough to study, including situations where a student is unaware that they are not well enough to study.

Interruptions to academic progress

The progress of a student on their course may be impeded for a variety of reasons, from acute personal difficulties to lack of interest.

The York Graduate Research School (YGRS) webpages have advice on how to support the following potential interruptions to academic progress: leave of absence, extensions, programme transfers and changes to mode of attendance requests for which are considered by emailing pgr-special-cases@york.ac.uk.

The webpages also contain information on withdrawals.