Student events

Wickedly Good Bake Boxes! ✨

Wednesday 5 November 2025 0am - Wednesday 12 November 2025 11.45pm

Organiser: Eat, Shop And Drink
Location: Vanbrugh Café
Open to: Everyone

💚🩷 Something Wicked (and Sweet) at Vanbrugh! 💚🩷

Get ready to defy gravity - and your sweet tooth, with the Limited Edition Vanbrugh Bake Box, available for just £8! Inspired by your favourite witches, these Wicked-themed cupcakes are handcrafted with a dash of magic, a little bit of deliciouShiz - and a whole lot of flavour.

Each box includes 4 enchanting cupcakes - perfect for fans of Elphaba, Glinda, or just really good cake. 🧁 Plus…. One lucky box will contain the Forbidden Golden Cupcake! Find it and win a £30 Vue voucher to see Wicked on the big screen! ✨

📅 Pre-order only by the 12th November.

Our Limited Edition Bake Boxes must be pre-ordered in advance, with payment taken on collection from Vanbrugh on your selected date. Whether you're team Glinda or Elphaba, don't miss your chance to grab a box of cupcakes so good that they’ll make you very very Popular - like us.

Preorder your Wicked bake box via the link above!

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🍔The Ultimate FREE Burger Drop 🍔

Thursday 6 November 2025 9.30am - Friday 14 November 2025 0am

Organiser: Eat, Shop And Drink
Location: Derwent Café
Open to: Everyone

🍔The Ultimate FREE Burger Drop 🍔

We’re serving up the biggest and best drop on campus - with 300 FREE burgers and skin on fries available to win!

Complete the form and enter into the ballot for the free Burger Drop. Where there is not just one, but TWO chances to win something juicy.

Choose from crispy coated chicken, double stack beef or our gourmet bean.

The un-burger-lievable burgers will be available to collect at the Official Burger Drop event in Derwent Dining on Thursday 20 November, 12pm to 2pm. Exclusive invite only.

Get a bite of the action and complete the form now to enter!

Can’t wait? Go try one of the amazing burgers at Derwent Cafe! Available to purchase Monday to Friday from 12pm to 2pm.

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Private housing drop in session

Friday 7 November 2025 2pm - Tuesday 11 November 2025 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: Harry Fairhurst Building
Open to: Everyone

Got questions or concerns about private housing? Whether you're house-hunting or already renting in the private sector, come along to our weekly drop-in session with the Student Housing Adviser.

This is an informal, friendly space where you can chat about anything related to private housing - from understanding contracts to resolving issues with landlords or letting agents.

📍 Library 🕑 Weekly session 📌 No booking required – just drop in

Location: LFA/142 (Minster), Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West, University of York

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Get your housing contract checked

Monday 10 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: The Baroness Hale Legal Clinic
Open to: Everyone

Need a second opinion before signing your housing contract? Or facing an issue with your current accommodation? Drop by our free weekly Housing Contract Checking Service, run by the Student Housing Adviser in partnership with volunteer Law students.

Whether you're about to rent for the first time or dealing with ongoing housing problems, we're here to help you understand your rights and responsibilities as a tenant.

• 📍 Baroness Hale Law School Clinic (above the NISA in Market Square, Campus West)
• 🕑 Every week, 2pm–4pm
• 📌 No booking required – just drop in

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Academic Language

Monday 10 November 2025 4pm - 5.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

What are the key features of academic language? How can we achieve an academic style in our writing? This workshop focuses on the differences between academic language and the language we use on a daily basis, and tries to suggest elements to improve our academic writing, mainly in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and style.

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Disabled Students Games Night

Monday 10 November 2025 6pm - 0am

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: SLB/006 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

To mark the beginning of Disability History Month, join us for Disabled Students Games Night! From murder mysteries to strategic board games, we’ve got the whole package.

Find all the details and book your free ticket on the York SU website.

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International humanitarian law under stress: Reflections from Ukraine on bridging the accountability gap

Monday 10 November 2025 6.30pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: BS/005 Lecture Theatre (Bowland Auditorium)
Open to: Everyone

Centre for Applied Human Rights Lecture

Specialists will discuss war crimes and accountability for IHL violations in Ukraine and other conflicts, considering new warfare methods.

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Jazz Night

Monday 10 November 2025 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: Vanbrugh Arms
Open to: Everyone

Vanbrugh's legendary jazz night. Every Monday in the Vanbrugh Arms from 8pm.

Weekly College Brunch

Tuesday 11 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Langwith
Location: Langwith College
Open to: Langwith

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Corner Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Wentworth Brunch

Tuesday 11 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Toastie Tuesday

Tuesday 11 November 2025 11.45am - 1.15pm

Organiser: James
Open to: James

Free toasties with a range of fillings, available every Tuesday from 11:45 to 13:15 in The Lodge.

Finding academic literature - going beyond your reading list

Tuesday 11 November 2025 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

When you do a Google search or a search of the Library's resources, you will potentially be faced with a massive reading list. How do you choose which are the best texts? Who do you trust? Where do you get the most reliable data from? In this session you will learn some of the best places for finding academic information and how to select the most appropriate reading for the task you have to complete.

Being critical: Evaluating information Searching for information: Academic sources

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Bivirate Statistics: Correlations, T-tests, and Chi-square

Tuesday 11 November 2025 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session explores the essential statistics for analysing two variables or questionnaire responses. During the workshop you will be able to practice running correlations, t-tests and chi-square tests in your chosen statistical software, (e.g. SPSS, RStudio, STATA).

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New Fitness Class: Women's strength

Tuesday 11 November 2025 4pm - 5pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

Ready to lift your confidence as well as your weights? Our new Women’s Strength sessions are designed to help you build strength, master technique, and feel empowered in the weight room - no matter your experience level.

🗓 Tuesdays 16:00–17:00 🗓 Saturdays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–9 👥 Women only | Capacity: 10

Join a supportive, motivating environment where you can learn, lift, and feel stronger every week.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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UoY: LAAM: Planning your next steps

Tuesday 11 November 2025 4pm - 5pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This online session is aimed at taught postgraduate students (but open to all) who are not sure of the next steps in their career journey. You will learn how to: generate career ideas; research different jobs and sectors; research PhD study opportunities; start your job search, and get help with applications and interviews.

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The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner

Tuesday 11 November 2025 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: PZA/103 Lecture Theatre
Open to: Everyone

Join Greg Jenner and Professor Nicky Milner for a Stone Age talk, covering Star Carr and Greg's book, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild.

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Bake Off

Tuesday 11 November 2025 7pm - 9pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Vanbrugh

Join the Vanbrugh STYMs in The Warren every Tuesday to watch The Great British Bake Off and bake some sweet treats.

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 12 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
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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Spudricke 💚

Wednesday 12 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Head down to the nucleus to get your free potato. There are a variety of toppings too! 💚

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 12 November 2025 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen workshops are open to all. They give you the chance to get to know others from different disciplines and to practise communicating. Each time we meet we engage in interactive activities involving your voice, your body and your ears! We discuss confidence from perspectives of both speaker and listener and identify communication strategies to take away and apply in different contexts. To get maximum benefit and build your confidence incrementally, we recommend coming to more than one workshop. These interactive sessions are not recorded. The content is different each time, as it is built by you on the day. Slides are not available.

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Learn to code: Introduction to programming with Python (a 2 week course)

Wednesday 12 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

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

Looking to start learning Python?

This introductory hands-on 2 week course gets you familiar with the coding language Python and using Python for basic data analysis and visualisation. Over the two 2-hour long sessions, you will learn the basics of how to:

• Start using Python in notebooks
• Create variables and work with data types
• Process data, from analysis to data visualisation
• Repeat actions with loops and use decisions in your code
• Use functions to improve your programs
• Deal with errors

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Crafternoon: Tote Bag Decorating

Wednesday 12 November 2025 3pm - 5pm

Organiser: James
Location: J/JCR James Lakeside Common Room
Open to: James

Crafternoon: Tote Bag Decorating

Come join us for an afternoon of creativity at Lakeside with the James Mentors as you decorate a tote bag with paints, markers, and more. This is a fun in-person event where you can socialize with other crafters and show off your unique style. Don't miss out on this opportunity to personalize your own tote bag and make it truly one-of-a-kind. See you there!

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New Fitness Class: Introduction to weights

Wednesday 12 November 2025 5pm - 6pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

New to lifting? Start strong with our Introduction to Weights sessions — perfect for beginners who want to learn proper technique, build confidence, and master the foundations of weight training.

🗓 Wednesdays 17:00–18:00 🗓 Sundays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–8 👥 Capacity: 6

Get comfortable with the basics and set yourself up for success in the gym.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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Video games and the work of Medieval art history: Possibilities for public impact through industry collaborations

Wednesday 12 November 2025 5.30pm - 7pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: SLB/118 Lecture Theatre
Open to: Everyone

York Medieval Lecture

Dr. Glaire Anderson discusses her work bridging academia, video games, and heritage sectors, including consulting on Assassin's Creed Mirage.

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Werewolf

Wednesday 12 November 2025 6pm - 10pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Everyone

Play werewolf, the classic game of deception in The Warren every Wednesday.

UoY: Working in the Creative Industries

Wednesday 12 November 2025 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Would you like to work in the creative industries? If so, then this is the event for you! Hear from professionals working across the creative industries who will provide you with an honest account of what it is like to work in this exciting sector and top tips on how to be successful; also with a chance to ask questions to the panelists themselves. International students welcome but please be advised that you are not permitted to work on a freelance or self-employed basis while on a student visa.

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Private Housing Talk for Constantine, Goodricke and Langwith students

Wednesday 12 November 2025 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Constantine
Location: Piazza Building
Open to: Everyone

Thinking about moving into private housing next year? Come along to this friendly, informative session for Constantine, Goodricke and Langwith students.

Hosted by the Student Housing Adviser, and joined by College Staff, Second/Third Year Contacts (STYCs), and Second/Third Year Mentors (STYMs), this talk brings together first-hand experiences and practical advice to help you understand your options in the private rental market.

📋 The session includes:

A short, helpful presentation on private housing A chance to ask questions during and after the talk 1-to-1 chats with the team after the session, if you want to ask anything privately or informally This is a great opportunity to get advice from people who’ve been through it all – right in your own college setting.

📅 Can’t make it? The same talk will also be delivered at the York SU Housing Fair on Friday 14 November in the Spring Lane Building.

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Bernard O’Donoghue: Editing Heaney

Wednesday 12 November 2025 7pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: V/N/045 Lecture Theatre
Open to: Everyone

Writers at York

Bernard O’Donoghue discusses The Poems of Seamus Heaney, a landmark collection of Heaney’s works, with Hugh Haughton.

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Designing presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides

Thursday 13 November 2025 10am - 12pm

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

How can you create presentation slides that are memorable and impactful while also being accessible? PowerPoint and Google Slides include many under-exploited features that can help you create more effective presentations (as well as other resources). This session explores the principles of designing presentations, including templates, animation, accessibility principles, and working with media. We'll also look at presentation features in these tools that can help you as you convey your material to an audience.

Presentations Practical Guide

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Weekly College Brunch

Thursday 13 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Clarbour Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Getting Started with RStudio

Thursday 13 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop will introduce you to the RStudio interface, and writing R code to import, manage and plot data. Suitable for people who have not done any computer coding before. The programming language R, along with the software RStudio, are widely used to carry out statistical analyses.

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POSTGRADUATE SOUP! (Free food!)

Thursday 13 November 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Private housing talk for James and Vanbrugh students

Thursday 13 November 2025 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: James
Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building
Open to: Everyone

Thinking about moving into private housing next year? Come along to this friendly, informative session for James and Vanbrugh students.

Hosted by the Student Housing Adviser, and joined by College Staff, Second/Third Year Contacts (STYCs), and Second/Third Year Mentors (STYMs), this talk brings together first-hand experiences and practical advice to help you understand your options in the private rental market.

📋 The session includes:

A short, helpful presentation on private housing A chance to ask questions during and after the talk 1-to-1 chats with the team after the session, if you want to ask anything privately or informally This is a great opportunity to get advice from people who’ve been through it all – right in your own college setting.

📅 Can’t make it? The same talk will also be delivered at the York SU Housing Fair on Friday 14 November in the Spring Lane Building.

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Reading More Effectively: Comparing Traditional and AI Strategies

Friday 14 November 2025 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Can generative AI enhance our reading efficiency? This workshop will compare traditional academic reading strategies with techniques for utilising generative AI tools to support with reading.

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Feel Good Friday🍰

Friday 14 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Feel Good Friday: Mindfulness Hour is happening on Friday 14th November from 10:30-11:30 in the Clarbour Room. Come and relax with gentle music, teas and healthy treats!

Essential Podcasting (Online)

Friday 14 November 2025 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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New Fitness Class: Women's strength

Saturday 15 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

Ready to lift your confidence as well as your weights? Our new Women’s Strength sessions are designed to help you build strength, master technique, and feel empowered in the weight room - no matter your experience level.

🗓 Tuesdays 16:00–17:00 🗓 Saturdays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–9 👥 Women only | Capacity: 10

Join a supportive, motivating environment where you can learn, lift, and feel stronger every week.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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New Fitness Class: Introduction to weights

Sunday 16 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

New to lifting? Start strong with our Introduction to Weights sessions — perfect for beginners who want to learn proper technique, build confidence, and master the foundations of weight training.

🗓 Wednesdays 17:00–18:00 🗓 Sundays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–8 👥 Capacity: 6

Get comfortable with the basics and set yourself up for success in the gym.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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Academic Style: What It Is and How to Achieve It

Monday 17 November 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

There is a style of writing which makes a text sound academic, and in this session you will learn what the elements of this style are, so you can begin to use them in your own academic writing. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Dog and Doughnuts 🐾

Monday 17 November 2025 1.30pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Langwith
Location: Langwith College
Open to: Langwith

In need a paws-itive boost? 🐾 We have Milo the therapy dog visiting Langwith in The Corner Room from 1.30pm-3.30pm to see you all! Come say hi, grab a doughnut, and take a moment to unwind. No booking required, just drop by to see him💛

Get your housing contract checked

Monday 17 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: The Baroness Hale Legal Clinic
Open to: Everyone

Need a second opinion before signing your housing contract? Or facing an issue with your current accommodation? Drop by our free weekly Housing Contract Checking Service, run by the Student Housing Adviser in partnership with volunteer Law students.

Whether you're about to rent for the first time or dealing with ongoing housing problems, we're here to help you understand your rights and responsibilities as a tenant.

• 📍 Baroness Hale Law School Clinic (above the NISA in Market Square, Campus West)
• 🕑 Every week, 2pm–4pm
• 📌 No booking required – just drop in

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Creating Interactive Graphs in RStudio

Monday 17 November 2025 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session will cover how to make interactive graphs in RStudio. You will learn how to go beyond simple bar or scatter graphs, and make them more interesting, such as animating a graph, building 3D graphs, and creating a moving gif of your graph. Suitable for people who have used RStudio previously and would like to create interactive graphs from their data in the future.

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Curating Modern Art Today

Monday 17 November 2025 6pm - 7pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: SLB/118 Lecture Theatre
Open to: Everyone

Cantor Modern Art Lecture

We are delighted to welcome Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE, Director of the British Museum, for this special edition of the Cantor Lectures, focusing on curating modern and contemporary art.

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Jazz Night

Monday 17 November 2025 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: Vanbrugh Arms
Open to: Everyone

Vanbrugh's legendary jazz night. Every Monday in the Vanbrugh Arms from 8pm.

Create better videos with Adobe Premiere Pro

Tuesday 18 November 2025 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: Everyone

Already know the basics of video editing, but would like to go a bit further?

In this session, which builds upon our Essential Video Editing workshop, we will be exploring Adobe Premiere Pro and the features you can use to create and edit videos, including some of the key effects to improve both video and sound. We'll explore creating simple animated parts of your video and some other more advanced effects. You will get hands-on with the fundamentals of creating videos with Premiere Pro, which is available on Creativity Lab PCs, and get the chance to try out green screen technology as well.

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Weekly College Brunch

Tuesday 18 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Langwith
Location: Langwith College
Open to: Langwith

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Corner Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Wentworth Brunch

Tuesday 18 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Toastie Tuesday

Tuesday 18 November 2025 11.45am - 1.15pm

Organiser: James
Open to: James

Free toasties with a range of fillings, available every Tuesday from 11:45 to 13:15 in The Lodge.

Rethinking conservation strategies in Brazil

Tuesday 18 November 2025 1pm - 2pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: ENV/105X Lecture Room (Combined)
Open to: Everyone

YESI International Fellows seminar

Campos Gerais, Brazil, needs a shift from the US Park model to a UK National Park partnership approach for sustainable conservation and land management.

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Microsoft Word for dissertations and theses

Tuesday 18 November 2025 3pm - 5pm

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

When producing a long piece of academic writing such as a dissertation or thesis, you will save time and effort if you take advantage of the most appropriate features in Microsoft Word. In this session we'll explore approaches to using Word that are particularly important when you need to produce material as efficiently as possible to match academic guidelines. We'll explore the power of using styles to make it easier to add outline headings, tables of contents and to make your document accessible. We'll also look at making the most of the tools available, such as adding automatic page numbers, tables of contents, and captions.

Creating documents

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Critical Thinking: What It Is and How to Do It

Tuesday 18 November 2025 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Students are often told that they need to think critically. In this session, you will learn how you think critically all the time and how to apply this to thinking critically in your studies. There will be clear examples of critical thinking and we will show you how you can do this in a number of academic contexts. Please find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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New Fitness Class: Women's strength

Tuesday 18 November 2025 4pm - 5pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

Ready to lift your confidence as well as your weights? Our new Women’s Strength sessions are designed to help you build strength, master technique, and feel empowered in the weight room - no matter your experience level.

🗓 Tuesdays 16:00–17:00 🗓 Saturdays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–9 👥 Women only | Capacity: 10

Join a supportive, motivating environment where you can learn, lift, and feel stronger every week.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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UoY: Career support for online and distance learners

Tuesday 18 November 2025 5pm - 6pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This online session is intended for students undertaking their studies by distance and online learning, or part-time students based off-campus. It will explain how students not based on campus can access career information and support, including resources for working in the UK and globally. There will also be an opportunity for you to help us understand what additional support and resource would help you to move forward with your career plans.

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UoY: Thinking ahead: post study visa options

Tuesday 18 November 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This event is for international students.

Understanding UK Post-Study Visa Options

Pat Saini, a partner and co-head of the India group at Penningtons Manches Cooper will be joining us online to talk about what visa options are available for after your student visa expires. Pat is an extremely high profile lawyer, who is generously giving her time to help international students from the university of York navigate their next steps. She has worked closely with the founders of Student Circus to support their efforts to help international students and graduates find work in the UK after their studies.

Come along to get clear, practical information to help you plan your next steps with confidence.

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300 years of fast fashion in Yorkshire

Tuesday 18 November 2025 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Open to: Everyone

Location: Merchant Adventurers' Hall, Fossgate, York

Merchant Adventurers' Arts Discovery Lecture

Yorkshire's fashion history, from 18th-century dye pollution to modern recycling, reveals that textile sustainability issues and solutions are not new.

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UoY: Career support for online and distance learners

Wednesday 19 November 2025 10am - 11am

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This online session is intended for students undertaking their studies by distance and online learning, or part-time students based off-campus. It will explain how students not based on campus can access career information and support, including resources for working in the UK and globally. There will also be an opportunity for you to help us understand what additional support and resource would help you to move forward with your career plans.

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Spudricke 💚

Wednesday 19 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Head down to the nucleus to get your free potato. There are a variety of toppings too! 💚

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 19 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
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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Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 19 November 2025 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen workshops are open to all. They give you the chance to get to know others from different disciplines and to practise communicating. Each time we meet we engage in interactive activities involving your voice, your body and your ears! We discuss confidence from perspectives of both speaker and listener and identify communication strategies to take away and apply in different contexts. To get maximum benefit and build your confidence incrementally, we recommend coming to more than one workshop. These interactive sessions are not recorded. The content is different each time, as it is built by you on the day. Slides are not available.

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Software lifecycle planning

Wednesday 19 November 2025 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Research Coding Club
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This is part three of our new Research Coding Course. When you start writing software it is often very useful to think about the development process and how you will make your software sustainable in the long term. In this session we will introduce important aspects of software development in research: software lifecycle, management plan, licences and dissemination. This session should allow you to ask yourself the right questions when starting a research software project.

This session is available to students and staff.

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On Irreverence

Wednesday 19 November 2025 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: SLB/118 Lecture Theatre
Open to: Everyone

The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

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New Fitness Class: Introduction to weights

Wednesday 19 November 2025 5pm - 6pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

New to lifting? Start strong with our Introduction to Weights sessions — perfect for beginners who want to learn proper technique, build confidence, and master the foundations of weight training.

🗓 Wednesdays 17:00–18:00 🗓 Sundays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–8 👥 Capacity: 6

Get comfortable with the basics and set yourself up for success in the gym.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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Werewolf

Wednesday 19 November 2025 6pm - 10pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Everyone

Play werewolf, the classic game of deception in The Warren every Wednesday.

Introduction to animation

Thursday 20 November 2025 10am - 12pm

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

Let's create an image, and then move it a bit, and move it again and keep moving it. When we play these images together, we've made a little animation. In this practical beginner session, we'll look at how to get started with creating your first 2D animation. Animations can be useful when creating videos, for portraying your study/research or for helping to explain concepts. There will be opportunity to explore a range of free and easy-to-use tools, along with learning some of the key principles of creating a stop-motion animation and some interesting animations you can create just in Microsoft Powerpoint. The session will include opportunities to have a go in a simple animation tool yourself to create your own animation. We will also share information on other alternate tools that can be used.

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Weekly College Brunch

Thursday 20 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Clarbour Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Thursday 20 November 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

A range of grammatical structures that are commonly found in academic texts will be introduced, focusing on their function and form so that you can start using these structures in your own writing. We will also focus on academic words that occur frequently together in academic texts, such as ‘conduct research’, and how the use of these phrases (collocations) can make your academic writing sound more natural. Please find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Regressions

Thursday 20 November 2025 3pm - 4.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session explains various regression tests which aim to predict an outcome variable using one or more different predictor variables. During the workshop you will be able to practice running these tests in your chosen statistical software, (e.g. SPSS, RStudio, STATA).

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POSTGRADUATE SOUP! (Free food!)

Thursday 20 November 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Private housing drop in session

Friday 21 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: Harry Fairhurst Building
Open to: Everyone

Got questions or concerns about private housing? Whether you're house-hunting or already renting in the private sector, come along to our weekly drop-in session with the Student Housing Adviser.

This is an informal, friendly space where you can chat about anything related to private housing - from understanding contracts to resolving issues with landlords or letting agents.

📍 Library 🕑 Weekly session 📌 No booking required – just drop in

Location: LFA/142 (Minster), Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)

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Being creative with generative AI

Friday 21 November 2025 2pm - 3pm

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

In this one-hour bitesize workshop we will look at the ways we can use generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools for creative purposes. We'll consider digital creativity as a way of exploring ideas and creating artefacts for communicating work and research with others, and we'll see to what extent generative AI might help (or hinder) us in the creative process.

Generative AI: a Practical Guide

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New Fitness Class: Women's strength

Saturday 22 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

Ready to lift your confidence as well as your weights? Our new Women’s Strength sessions are designed to help you build strength, master technique, and feel empowered in the weight room - no matter your experience level.

🗓 Tuesdays 16:00–17:00 🗓 Saturdays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–9 👥 Women only | Capacity: 10

Join a supportive, motivating environment where you can learn, lift, and feel stronger every week.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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New Fitness Class: Introduction to weights

Sunday 23 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre
Open to: Everyone

New to lifting? Start strong with our Introduction to Weights sessions — perfect for beginners who want to learn proper technique, build confidence, and master the foundations of weight training.

🗓 Wednesdays 17:00–18:00 🗓 Sundays 11:00–12:00 📍 Racks 7–8 👥 Capacity: 6

Get comfortable with the basics and set yourself up for success in the gym.

👉 Book your spot now via the York Sport app or website!

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Power of Punctuation

Monday 24 November 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

What are the most frequently used punctuation marks in academic writing and how can they be used effectively to convey the exact meaning you want to communicate? We will explore the answers to these questions in this sessions. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Get your housing contract checked

Monday 24 November 2025 2pm - 2pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: The Baroness Hale Legal Clinic
Open to: Everyone

Need a second opinion before signing your housing contract? Or facing an issue with your current accommodation? Drop by our free weekly Housing Contract Checking Service, run by the Student Housing Adviser in partnership with volunteer Law students.

Whether you're about to rent for the first time or dealing with ongoing housing problems, we're here to help you understand your rights and responsibilities as a tenant.

• 📍 Baroness Hale Law School Clinic (above the NISA in Market Square, Campus West)
• 🕑 Every week, 2pm–4pm
• 📌 No booking required – just drop in

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Jazz Night

Monday 24 November 2025 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: Vanbrugh Arms
Open to: Everyone

Vanbrugh's legendary jazz night. Every Monday in the Vanbrugh Arms from 8pm.

Essential handheld 3D scanning

Tuesday 25 November 2025 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: Everyone

Let's create a high-quality digital twin of a 3D object. Starting with a chance to try out dedicated handheld 3D scanner, we'll then look at the considerations and challenges of trying to create a digital replica. We'll also share a whole host of ideas for how you could use 3D scans in your study, work or research; like animating them, or even 3D printing them. This session is open to anyone, including those who are interested in seeing how 3D models can help people engage with your work or area of study. If you have your own portable item you'd like to scan, bring it along!

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Weekly College Brunch

Tuesday 25 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Langwith
Location: Langwith College
Open to: Langwith

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Corner Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Wentworth Brunch

Tuesday 25 November 2025 11am - 12pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Toastie Tuesday

Tuesday 25 November 2025 11.45am - 1.15pm

Organiser: James
Open to: James

Free toasties with a range of fillings, available every Tuesday from 11:45 to 13:15 in The Lodge.

How to read an academic article

Tuesday 25 November 2025 1pm - 2pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Where do you start when looking at academic literature? How can you successfully engage with the literature you find?

You don't need an AI summary tool to understand most journal articles — there's usually already ways for you to get to the important information quickly. This bitesized session will explore the structure of academic articles, show where to look to check the validity of findings, and offer tips for navigating online texts.

This training will be delivered online via Zoom.

Being critical: Reading academic articles Searching for information: Academic sources

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Academic Reading: What It Is and How to Do It

Tuesday 25 November 2025 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Learning to read academic texts more effectively, by reading actively, critically, and purposefully, is the focus of this session. You will also learn strategies to reduce the time you spend reading. Please find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/skills/reading

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YorCreate: Digital cutting with Cricut

Tuesday 25 November 2025 5pm - 6pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/132 YorCreate
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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Hiding in Plain Sight: Rediscovering Beatrice de Roos in York Minster

Tuesday 25 November 2025 7pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

York for LIfe Lecture Join Professor Sarah Brown of the Department of History of Art as she presents new research into the patronage of York Minster’s famous St William window, second in size only to the Great East Window.

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Spudricke 💚

Wednesday 26 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Head down to the nucleus to get your free potato. There are a variety of toppings too! 💚

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 26 November 2025 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
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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UoY: LAAM: Life After a Masters (panel event)

Wednesday 26 November 2025 1.15pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

During this online panel Q&A event you will hear from recent Masters graduates about how their careers have developed since leaving York and you will have the opportunity to ask questions.

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Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 26 November 2025 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen workshops are open to all. They give you the chance to get to know others from different disciplines and to practise communicating. Each time we meet we engage in interactive activities involving your voice, your body and your ears! We discuss confidence from perspectives of both speaker and listener and identify communication strategies to take away and apply in different contexts. To get maximum benefit and build your confidence incrementally, we recommend coming to more than one workshop. These interactive sessions are not recorded. The content is different each time, as it is built by you on the day. Slides are not available.

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Code Clinic

Wednesday 26 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Research Coding Club
Open to: Everyone

Research Coding Club are running a new format of bookable Code Clinic sessions where you can discuss problems you’re having with your code, ideas for some new code or anything else related to research software. In a session you will meet with research software engineers from across the university who will be able to help you. Each session will last about 35 minutes. Please complete the form on our webpage and provide details of what you would like to discuss so we can match you with the right people to help you.

Sessions are available to students and staff.

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Google Vids: quick video creation

Wednesday 26 November 2025 2pm - 3pm

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

Google Vids is a new web-based video editing tool, available as part of Google Workspace. In this bitesize session, we’ll show you how to easily compile and edit your own videos. We’ll explore, using the in-built recording feature, importing pre-existing videos and how to cut your video clips. This is an online session held via Zoom.

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Werewolf

Wednesday 26 November 2025 6pm - 10pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Everyone

Play werewolf, the classic game of deception in The Warren every Wednesday.

Weekly College Brunch

Thursday 27 November 2025 10.30am - 11.30am

Organiser: Goodricke
Location: GNU/009 Clarbour Room
Open to: Goodricke

Come and join us for our college brunch in the Clarbour Room from 10:30-11:30am. Please remember to bring your bowls, plates and cutlery!

Making the Most of Procrastination

Thursday 27 November 2025 1.15pm - 2.45pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop will examine a positive and productive kind of procrastination that is often called 'creative procrastination'. Using discussion, information and practice scenarios, it will provide strategies for making creative procrastination a valued and useful part of your effective study time.

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ANOVAs

Thursday 27 November 2025 3pm - 4.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

This session explains various ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) tests which look for significant differences between different groups or measures. During the workshop you will be able to practice running these tests in your chosen statistical software, (e.g. SPSS, RStudio, STATA).

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POSTGRADUATE SOUP! (Free food!)

Thursday 27 November 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Wentworth
Location: B/R/016 Wentworth Graduate College Hub
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!

Hot chocolate and Christmas Movies

Thursday 27 November 2025 7pm - 10.30pm

Organiser: James
Location: James Lodge
Open to: James

Come join us for a cozy evening at The Lodge on November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM for a delightful movie night! We'll be serving up hot chocolate and screening Christmas movies to get you in the holiday spirit. Don't miss out on this festive event!

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Creativity Lab: Model 3D board game pieces

Friday 28 November 2025 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students/research graduate

This in-person interactive workshop is intended for anyone who would like to come and try out 3D modelling, and learn a new digital skill. Even if you're not sure what you would use it for, come along and we will share lots of ideas that relate to your own study, teaching or research.

Have a brilliant idea for a 3D design? Let's sketch it and then turn it into a digital 3D model. In this practical session, we'll look at using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to learn how we can design our own models and how we can alter our designs. No previous experience needed, we'll show you how to get started in a modelling tool and work through some of the key tips. This time we will look at creating parts for your own board game, but do come along if you are also interested in designing something else. We'll include information at the end of the session how you can then get access to our YorCreate makerspace to 3D print your design.

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Private housing drop in session

Friday 28 November 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: Harry Fairhurst Building
Open to: Everyone

Got questions or concerns about private housing? Whether you're house-hunting or already renting in the private sector, come along to our weekly drop-in session with the Student Housing Adviser.

This is an informal, friendly space where you can chat about anything related to private housing - from understanding contracts to resolving issues with landlords or letting agents.

📍 Library 🕑 Weekly session 📌 No booking required – just drop in

Location: LFA/142 (Minster), Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West, University of York

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Editing and Proofreading

Monday 1 December 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

If you find it difficult to edit or proofread your own work effectively, this is the session for you. During this workshop, you will learn a number of different strategies and techniques to help you redraft your written work and also identify and correct errors. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Get your housing contract checked

Monday 1 December 2025 2pm - 2pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: The Baroness Hale Legal Clinic
Open to: Everyone

Need a second opinion before signing your housing contract? Or facing an issue with your current accommodation? Drop by our free weekly Housing Contract Checking Service, run by the Student Housing Adviser in partnership with volunteer Law students.

Whether you're about to rent for the first time or dealing with ongoing housing problems, we're here to help you understand your rights and responsibilities as a tenant.

• 📍 Baroness Hale Law School Clinic (above the NISA in Market Square, Campus West)
• 🕑 Every week, 2pm–4pm
• 📌 No booking required – just drop in

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Jazz Night

Monday 1 December 2025 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: Vanbrugh Arms
Open to: Everyone

Vanbrugh's legendary jazz night. Every Monday in the Vanbrugh Arms from 8pm.

Editing and Publishing your Podcast

Tuesday 2 December 2025 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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Toastie Tuesday

Tuesday 2 December 2025 11.45am - 1.15pm

Organiser: James
Open to: James

Free toasties with a range of fillings, available every Tuesday from 11:45 to 13:15 in The Lodge.

Recording and remixing history: Second World War soundscapes workshop

Tuesday 2 December 2025 2pm - 4.30pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: Borthwick Institute for Archives
Open to: Everyone

Join us for a half-day workshop led by community-audio project Applied Stories and staff from The National Archives, where participants will create sound collages based on our Second World War research and activities to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war. 

Participants will explore a specially curated collection of records from The National Archives’ Global Second World War project that have been professionally recorded. Participants will then take part in an audio-zine workshop led by audio professionals, working with tablets and other audio equipment themselves. By adopting a new methodological practice, participants will be encouraged to ‘mashup’ a sound collage that captures their own unique response to the global nature of the Second World War and share it as part of the workshop. 

No prior experience is necessary - just bring your enthusiasm!

Digital Creativity: a practical guide

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Strategies to Increase Reading Speed

Wednesday 3 December 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Let's learn how reading strategies, such as skimming, scanning, text navigation, and deducing meaning from context, can be applied to the reading of academic texts and considerably speed up our reading.

Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/skills/reading

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: An intro to NVivo

Wednesday 3 December 2025 2pm - 4pm

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

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) software package. It has been designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

In this introductory session we will cover the basics of importing files into NVivo, data coding and classification principles, and basic data analysis and visualisation.

Data: Qualitative data analysis

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Werewolf

Wednesday 3 December 2025 6pm - 10pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Everyone

Play werewolf, the classic game of deception in The Warren every Wednesday.

Essential Video Editing

Thursday 4 December 2025 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
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: Festive crafts drop-in

Thursday 4 December 2025 12pm - 3pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/132 YorCreate
Open to: Everyone

Get festive at YorCreate!

Join our festive crafts drop-in session in the Library's makerspace. Take a break to create your own holiday decorations, unique gifts, or just something fun.

Let your seasonal creativity flow

• 3D print
• Paint
• Make decorations
• Decorate pre-made decorations
• Make jewellery
• Make cards
• And get creative!

This is a drop-in session but filling in the linked form will help us know numbers in advance. This session does not constitute a YorCreate induction. To get full access to the space outside of this drop-in, you can sign up to an induction session.

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Bauble Painting

Thursday 4 December 2025 1pm - 4pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Kitchen at Alcuin
Open to: Everyone

Join us in The Kitchen for a festive afternoon of bauble painting!

Tickets are £5 and include a hot drink and a ceramic bauble for you to paint and take home - we will provide all the painting supplies you’ll need.

Find all the information you need and get your ticket on the York SU website.

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Getting Started with STATA

Thursday 4 December 2025 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop will cover how to import, manage and plot data using the STATA software and its coding language. In this introduction you will practice getting data into STATA, as well as cleaning, summarising and plotting the data. No prior knowledge of computer coding is needed to attend this session.

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Academic Writing: What It Is and How to Do It

Friday 5 December 2025 11.30am - 1pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

A number of academic text types, ranging from different essay types to reports, will be introduced in this session and then we will look at strategies for determining which of these best suits our assignment. In this session you will learn the basics of what academic writing is so you can recognise that style in the texts you are reading and begin to do it yourself. Please find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Christmas Market

Friday 5 December 2025 1pm - 4pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar
Open to: Everyone

Get into the festive spirit at our Christmas Market!

Peruse stalls from students and local businesses, with a drink and a bite to eat - and finish that Christmas shopping.

Entry is free!

Find all event details on the York SU website.

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Private housing drop in session

Friday 5 December 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Student Hub
Location: Harry Fairhurst Building
Open to: Everyone

Got questions or concerns about private housing? Whether you're house-hunting or already renting in the private sector, come along to our weekly drop-in session with the Student Housing Adviser.

This is an informal, friendly space where you can chat about anything related to private housing - from understanding contracts to resolving issues with landlords or letting agents.

📍 Library 🕑 Weekly session 📌 No booking required – just drop in

Location: LFA/142 (Minster), Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West, University of York

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Searching the literature more effectively: comparing traditional and AI strategies

Friday 5 December 2025 2pm - 3pm

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

Can generative AI help with the task of finding academic, peer-reviewed literature relating to an assessment or research project? Can it assist if you wanted to find all the news articles that mention a specific topic or person (for instance, John Bowes Morrell)?

Come along to this one-hour session where we will critically examine the effectiveness of using generative AI tools for finding relevant information for an essay, dissertation, or other research project, whilst also considering how generative AI approaches compare to traditional, non-AI search tools and resources.

This session will be particularly useful for taught students but is open to anyone at the University.

Generative AI: a Practical Guide

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The Fight Before Christmas

Saturday 6 December 2025 7pm - 11pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: Central Hall
Open to: Everyone

York SU, in conjunction with the University of York MMA Club, presents The Fight Before Christmas!

Join us for the biggest fight night on campus, featuring Muay Thai and K1 fights from York fighters facing off against competitors from other UK Universities.

Our Fight Nights are a chance to dress up, walk our red carpet and get your photos snapped with your squad. Don’t forget to grab a drink at the bar, before taking your seats to get the best view of the action!

This event is included within all York SU X College Welcome Bundles. Please do not purchase a ticket if you have a bundle ticket.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Fight Before Christmas!

Please note that whilst we aim for a full card of ten fights, the total number of fights may change in the event that fighters don’t make weight or pass medical inspection.

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Jazz Night

Monday 8 December 2025 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: Vanbrugh Arms
Open to: Everyone

Vanbrugh's legendary jazz night. Every Monday in the Vanbrugh Arms from 8pm.

Model a 3D festive decoration

Tuesday 9 December 2025 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: Everyone

Get into the Christmas spirit with our hands-on Design Your Own Digital Christmas Decoration workshop at the Creativity Lab!

Learn basic 3D modelling skills and bring your festive ideas to life by designing your own Christmas decoration 3D model. We’ll show you how to turn a 2D object into 3D and give you information on a range of free-to-use 3D modelling tools & software. You will also take a tour of our 3D printing makerspace, YorCreate to learn how 3D models come to life as 3D prints.

IMPORTANT: Please note, for health & safety reasons a separate 1-hour induction is required to use the YorCreate 3D Printing space outside of this session. You can book your YorCreate induction place separately here.

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Toastie Tuesday

Tuesday 9 December 2025 11.45am - 1.15pm

Organiser: James
Open to: James

Free toasties with a range of fillings, available every Tuesday from 11:45 to 13:15 in The Lodge.

PGT Dissertation Writing: An Introduction

Tuesday 9 December 2025 12.30pm - 2pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

This workshop is for postgraduate taught students only. It will define what a dissertation is and show how it differs from other assignment types. It will then go to look at the opportunities writing a dissertation offers students and the academic skills that are needed to write one. Finally, it will briefly look at the different sections/chapters that can be included in dissertations and what type of information these sections/chapters typically contain.

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Learn to code: Fun ways of coding with Python

Tuesday 9 December 2025 2pm - 4pm

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

Want to get started learning to code with Python, but not interested in focusing on data analysis?

In this introductory workshop, we will write Python code to tell simple jokes, calculate expenditure, and make quizzes, all to help us learn important Python concepts and syntax. We will also look at how you can use Python libraries to build even more functionality with Python, like connecting to AI services, making games, and generating Pokemon.

Coding Practical Guide

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Reading More Effectively: Comparing Traditional and AI Strategies

Wednesday 10 December 2025 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Can generative AI enhance our reading efficiency? This workshop will compare traditional academic reading strategies with techniques for utilising generative AI tools to support with reading.

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Getting Started with RStudio

Wednesday 10 December 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Everyone

This workshop will introduce you to the RStudio interface, and writing R code to import, manage and plot data. Suitable for people who have not done any computer coding before, but would like to use RStudio in the future to carry out statistical analyses.

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Data visualisation: All I got for Christmas was this stupid graph

Wednesday 10 December 2025 2pm - 4pm

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

How you present your data has a massive impact on audience understanding and engagement. Using different data visualisations can also provide you with new insights into your data findings.

In this workshop we will take a festive look at some of the main principles for working with data, from cleaning messy data and getting it into a processable state to the creation of effective charts and infographics.

Data: Data visualisation

Go to event

Werewolf

Wednesday 10 December 2025 6pm - 10pm

Organiser: Vanbrugh
Location: PVV/003 The Warren
Open to: Everyone

Play werewolf, the classic game of deception in The Warren every Wednesday.