Student events

Roman Raid 2026

Monday 1 December 2025 12pm - Tuesday 3 February 2026 10.15pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Open to: Everyone

Roman Raid Returns! Whether you’re up against the Celtic hordes, or trying to out-roam the Romans, Roman Raid 2026 will be the biggest night of Welcome Back Week!

New for 2026 - try our Pax Relaxed route. This route will have fewer attendees with more time in each venue, so you can enjoy Roman Raid at your own pace. Make sure to select the Pax ticket option if wanting to choose this route.

Pax Route: Vanbrugh, Katie O’Briens, The Old Bank, Revs.

All other Roman Raid routes will be announced in January 2026.

Tickets Roman Raid tickets are £10, and include:

T-shirt collections time available on the York SU website.

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Exam Revision: Science/Maths

Wednesday 7 January 2026 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Strategies for effective revision skills that will work for you. We will cover revision skills hints and tips, useful resources and time management specifically for Science, Maths and calculation-based questions.

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Race, Taste, Class and Cars: An ethnographer's reflections

Wednesday 7 January 2026 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: LMB/002 Lecture Room (Law and Sociology Building, Campus East)
Open to: Everyone

Department of Sociology Lecture

Yunis Alam explores Bradford's car culture, examining how race, class, and capitalism shape local identities and challenge broader societal narratives.

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The Distractibles Meetup Online

Wednesday 7 January 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup online on the first Wednesday of each month, 12:30pm to 1:30pm. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and an ideas bank of things to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles.

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[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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The Biorenewables Development Centre: Bridging the gap

Thursday 8 January 2026 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: PS/B/020 Lecture Theatre (Psychology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

York Society of Engineers Lecture

Find out about the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC), which supports biobased and chemical innovations by providing funding, facilities, and expertise to overcome scale-up challenges for commercial viability.

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Exam Revision: Exam Revision: Essays and Short Answers

Friday 9 January 2026 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Strategies for effective revision skills that will work for you. We will cover revision skills hints and tips, useful resources and time management specifically for essay and short-answer questions.

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Essential Podcasting (Online)

Tuesday 13 January 2026 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Essential Podcasting

Let’s make some noises. Then record them, publish them, and distribute them online. This two hour online workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of podcasting, going over some of the basics of podcast production, and looking at how an idea turns into an audio file that can be shared online. We’ll explore podcast formats and how to generate ideas along with our top recording tips. No prior knowledge of audio production or media creation is required. This workshop is perfect for you if you are interested in making a podcast yourself but aren’t sure where to start, and to find out more about podcasting facilities here at the Creativity Lab. This session runs alongside our other '10 tips for Audio editing' session (bookable separately), which will delve into the practicalities of editing audio.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 14 January 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Library, LFA/144. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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Take a break: LEGO Fun

Wednesday 14 January 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Need a break from study or work? Come and join us for a Lego challenge! In this fun session, we'll complete a number of Lego building challenges, such as building towers and navigating an obstacle course. There'll also be some programmable motors and sensors to build our own creations. This session is here for anyone looking to take a break, bring your friends too.

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Essential Video Editing

Tuesday 20 January 2026 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Want to be able to edit video content?

Video is a really useful medium for storytelling, educating, and sharing your ideas. Whether you're making a longer film, or short videos for social media, we'll cover tips on many types of video. Based in the Creativity lab, this session will go through key video editing concepts and techniques to help you get started, from gathering your material to exporting your completed video. We’ll explore top tips for recording video and sound, along with how to put everything together using video editing software. During the session, you'll have a go at editing pre-recorded footage using some recommended tools and you will be able to begin your own creation.

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YorCreate: Digital cutting with Cricut

Wednesday 21 January 2026 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/132 YorCreate (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Digital cutters allow you to create digital designs on a computer and then have the machine cut out that design on your material of choice, like card, vinyl, and iron-on transfers. These creations can then be added to other things, for example adding a vinyl transfer to a mug or an iron-on transfer to material like a t-shirt.

In YorCreate we have a Cricut Maker 3 which you can use once you've had a YorCreate induction (though you don't need to have had an induction to come along to this session). In this session we'll look at some approaches you could try, and offer a demonstration of how the cutter works.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 21 January 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Library, LFA/144. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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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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Version control: Introduction to Git and GitHub

Wednesday 21 January 2026 2pm - 5pm

Organiser: Research Coding Club
Open to: Everyone

This is a repeat of part two of our new Research Coding Course. If you’ve never heard of or used version control and Git before this is the session for you. We start by introducing version control and exploring how it can be beneficial to researchers, then we introduce some useful tools and get started with some basic workflow using these tools. We build on those foundations with collaborative exercises that introduce key concepts such as forks, pull requests and branches and give you the chance to get some hands-on experience with using version control in a research setting.

The location for the session will be on Campus West and will be shared after signing up.

This session is available to students and staff.

To attend please sign up via the link above.

For more information visit our course page.

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Editing and Publishing your Podcast

Thursday 22 January 2026 10am - 11.30am

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Are you starting a podcast and want to know how to get your podcast idea out there? This session focuses how to edit podcast recordings, and getting them ready to post publicly online. We'll look at using free editing tools like Audacity to learn the key editing skills. Then there will be a demonstration of how to host your files online, plus lots of useful tips and advice for picking up new listeners.

This session will be recorded and sent out afterwards to everyone signed up.

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Creating accessible Docs

Friday 23 January 2026 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

An online workshop demonstrating how ‘universal design’ can help everyone, not just those with an accessibility need. This session will consist of 1 hour 30 minutes of taught content, with an optional extra 30 minutes for questions & discussion.

Accessibility Skills Guide Learning Technology: Accessibility Creating Documents

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 28 January 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Library, LFA/144. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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Get started with 3D modelling

Thursday 29 January 2026 1pm - 2pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: staff/Students/research graduate

Let's explore the world of 3D models. In this introductory online session, we'll quickly share our top tips for getting started with designing and creating a 3D model from scratch. We'll show you a few useful tools, which are useful for different purposes such as 3D printing, or for games/digital experiences.

Open for everyone, we'll get practical with some easy-to-use free tools to help you get started with modelling your own creations. 3D models are great for 3D printing, using in a virtual environment and sharing ideas. They are also an interesting way to help explain a topic or engage people with your work. Feel free to come along with an idea of your own!

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[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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