Starbucks Summer Drink Specials☀️🥤

Monday 16 March 2026 - Wednesday 16 September 2026

Organiser: Eat, Shop And Drink
Open to: Everyone

The famous Starbucks favourite Iced Brown Sugar Oat Shaken Espresso is back on campus, and with a brand new friend… introducing the Iced White Mocha Oat Shaken Espresso!! 🍫🧊

Available until 6 September, we’re serving the two delicious Starbucks iced shaken espresso drinks at Link Café and Piazza Restaurant.

Creamy, smooth and shaken to perfection - perfect coffee break for warmer days on campus.

Community Cafe

Monday 4 May 2026 11.30am - 1pm

Organiser: Campus West Colleges
Open to: Everyone

All are welcome at our weekly community cafe in the Derwent GCR - every Monday from 11:30-13:00. Join Colleges staff and the College Wellbeing Officers and connect with students from across the university over tea, coffee, and snacks. If you are still adjusting to university life, it is a great place to feel part of the Colleges community.

Designing presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides

Tuesday 5 May 2026 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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Creating Interactive Graphs in RStudio

Tuesday 5 May 2026 2pm - 3pm

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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Uncertain Desires: Queer feminism and the cinema

Tuesday 5 May 2026 5.30pm - 7pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: CL/A/057 Lecture Room (Church Lane Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

The Centre for Women's Studies Annual Lecture

This talk will discuss some key debates in feminist and queer film studies from the 1980s to the present day, engaging with queer, feminist, and sci-fi films covered in Prof. Stacey's scholarship, from All About Eve and Alien Resurrection to Teknolust and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The talk will explore how it used to be almost impossible for homoerotic desire between women on the screen to be acknowledged within feminist film criticism; it will then move on to consider same-sex desire in films about cloning and genetic engineering, pausing the performances of Sigourney Weaver and Tilda Swinton in particular. Finally, it will address the question of lesbian films without lesbians by way of conclusion.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

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PGT Dissertation Writing 2: Methods and Results

Wednesday 6 May 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

This workshop is for postgraduate taught students only. It will look at the purpose of methodology and results sections, and then go on to examine how they can be structured and the sort of information they typically contain. We will give a brief summary of the most popular software used to help you analyse your data and present it in your report. This workshop will also focus on the skills and language needed to write these sections of a dissertation.

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UoY: Graduate Jobs Fair

Wednesday 6 May 2026 11am - 3pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: O/040 Sports Hall at York Sport Centre (York Sport Centre, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

If you are about to graduate and yet to find your first graduate job, this fair is a must for you. You will have the chance to meet employers who are recruiting to fill current vacancies and explore possible options for your next step after graduation. Don't miss out on the opportunity to chat face-to-face with a range of top employers keen to meet York students.

There will also be the opportunity to: Chat with staff from the Careers & Placements Team Get your CV reviewed Have your photo taken for you to use in your LinkedIn profile Browse through free interview and business-appropriate clothing at our Work Wardrobe

If you feel nervous about approaching an employer at the fair, help is available! Whether you find the situation difficult because of a disability or health condition, or any other reason, come and talk to us on the Careers and Placements stand.

Find out about the fair on our Graduate Jobs Fair page

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The Distractibles Meetup Online

Wednesday 6 May 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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Packaging

Wednesday 6 May 2026 1pm - 4pm

Organiser: Research Coding Club
Open to: Everyone

Packaging your software is one of the important steps in a software project to make it both findable and accessible. This session will provide you with an understanding of why and when packaging is useful, what different standards exist to package Python and R projects and take you through each step of the packaging process through follow-along demonstrations for both Python and R (delivered by Emma Rand).

The in-person session is free to attend and is open to students and staff. Sign-up using the URL above.

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Framing your research question

Wednesday 6 May 2026 2pm - 4pm

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

In this session, focused primarily on postgraduate research but applicable to any research project, we'll consider how to come up with a workable research question with regard to available literature: is there enough information to provide a suitable background? What limits will you need to set? We'll explore how to scope a range of different sources, including academic, government and organisational literature.

Searching for information: Framing your research

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LAAM: Preparing for interviews

Wednesday 6 May 2026 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: CL/A/026 Seminar room (Church Lane Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

This is a practical, interactive workshop for Masters students. It will be an opportunity to discuss job interview situations and techniques, find out about expectations of UK employers, and practise answering a variety of typical interview questions in a safe setting. It is aimed at Masters students who have limited experience of job interviews in the UK, or who may be returning to the labour market after a career break.

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Nature Matters: An Evening of Poetry with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nina Mingya Powles, and Zaffar Kunial

Wednesday 6 May 2026 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: ATB/057 Lecture Room (Seebohm Rowntree Building (ATB), Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Writers at York event

Legendary publishing house Faber and Faber presents Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, a revelatory contribution to the recent surge in nature writing. Brand-new commissions alongside half a century of formative works explore themes including climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories. Edited by poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi, Nature Matters is a genre-enriching anthology, revitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics.

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UoY: Career support for online and distance learners

Thursday 7 May 2026 10am - 11am

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This online session is for new and continuing students studying via distance or online learning. It will explain how students based off campus can access career information and support, including resources for working in the UK and globally. You’ll also have the chance to tell us what additional support or resources would help with your career plans.

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Create a Graphic in Adobe Illustrator

Thursday 7 May 2026 10am - 12pm

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

Interested to try out a graphic designer tool for the first time?

Using the Creativity Lab's access to Adobe Illustrator, this practical session will guide you through creating your own graphic design. We will focus on the most useful tools and hacks to create a logo or clipart illustration, with a useful step-by-step written handbook that we will share with you during the session. No prior knowledge is required. We will also share information on other alternate tools that can be used.

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Digital cutting with Cricut

Thursday 7 May 2026 1pm - 2pm

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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Star Wars Day: Lego Star Wars model making

Thursday 7 May 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: School for Business and Society
Location: Church Lane Building (Campus West)
Open to: The York Management School/Social Policy and Social Work

May the 4th (Be With You) – Star Wars Lego Fun!

May 4th is a special day for Star Wars fans, but since it’s a bank holiday this year, we’re celebrating on a different day! Come along and get creative, building your own weird and wonderful Star Wars-themed Lego models.

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Getting Started with SPSS

Thursday 7 May 2026 2pm - 4pm

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

This session is for people who have never used SPSS before or who want a refresher. You will learn how to get data in, quick ways of cleaning your data, running basic statistics and how to create graphs in SPSS.

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International Student Social: Flower Pressing Workshop!

Thursday 7 May 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: International Student Communities
Open to: Everyone

A relaxing afternoon break from exam prep and academia - flower pressing!

We have relocated to Anne Lister College Common Room, but will be bringing the snacks, crafts, and atmosphere that you know and love!

Join us on Thursday 7th May for a relaxing afternoon pressing flowers!

Where: Anne Lister Hub When: 5pm on Thursday 7th May

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UoY: Career support for online and distance learners

Thursday 7 May 2026 5.30pm - 6pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This online session is for new and continuing students studying via distance or online learning. It will explain how students based off campus can access career information and support, including resources for working in the UK and globally.You’ll also have the chance to tell us what additional support or resources would help with your career plans.

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Trip to Scarborough | International & Postgraduate Students

Saturday 9 May 2026 8am - 5.30pm

Organiser: International Student Communities
Open to: Everyone

Postgraduates and International Students! Enjoy beaches and sea views as we explore Yorkshire’s most iconic resort! Visit the castle, browse shops, or simply relax on the beach with fish and chips. A fun, relaxed day to explore, and enjoy the coast.

Tickets £8 at the online store

This ticket covers return coach travel between the University and Scarborough. We depart from the University Library bus stop at 8:00am and return to campus by 5:30pm. A staff member will check your details before boarding and provide a reminder of the return time. IMPORTANT: Please ensure you arrive on time for both departures. The coach will leave promptly and cannot wait for late arrivals. Should you miss the return coach, you will be responsible for arranging and funding your own transport back to York. No refunds will be issued.

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Women's Six Nations live at The Courtyard: England VS Italy

Saturday 9 May 2026 2pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar (Derwent College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Watch England VS Italy in the Women's Six Nations live at The Courtyard!

Effective Revision and Managing Exam Stress and Anxiety

Monday 11 May 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Strategies for effective revision and skills that will work for you. We will cover revision hints and tips, exam technique, useful resources and time management. In this workshop we also share tips and techniques for managing stress and anxiety in the lead up to exams, and on exam day itself.

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Editing content for Social Media

Tuesday 12 May 2026 10am - 12pm

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

Need to edit media content for social media? In this practical workshop, we’ll demonstrate tools and tips for editing some video and image content, thinking about what works best for social media. There will be advice on how to record content in the right size and scale, and how to plan your content to clearly portray your message. We’ll explore:

• Basics of social media
• Different platforms, types of post and choosing what works best
• Tips for capturing and filming content
• Key techniques of video and image editing
• Demonstrations of free-to-use editing tools
• Ensuring your posts are accessible

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Shop Save & Sustain Essentials Pop-Up ♻️

Tuesday 12 May 2026 11am - Wednesday 13 May 2026 2pm

Organiser: Eat, Shop And Drink
Open to: Everyone

Pick up everyday essentials at our Shop Save & Sustain Pop-Up on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 May.

Thanks to student support in reducing food waste on campus , £3,000 has been raised and reinvested into free food and hygiene products for students.

Browse a range of items and choose up to 5 products, depending on what you need.

Spaces are limited and must be booked in advance. Entry is allocated via timed slots to ensure fair access.

Please bring your own bag.

Book your spot.

Getting Started with STATA

Tuesday 12 May 2026 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
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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Editing and Proofreading

Wednesday 13 May 2026 10.30am - 12pm

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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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 13 May 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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Postgraduate Afternoon Tea & Bunting Decorating

Wednesday 13 May 2026 1pm - 3pm

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

Join the Postgraduate Communities team for an afternoon of hot drinks, cake and creativity!

Open to all York postgraduates! Have a well earned break from your studies and join us for afternoon tea and cakes, with crafts! Get creative decorating bunting. No experience needed, just bring your imagination and while away the afternoon in comfort with fellow postgraduates.

When? 1pm on Wednesday 13 May Where? Wentworth College Hub How much? FREE!

All postgraduates welcome! Pop down, relax, and make something unique!

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: An intro to NVivo

Wednesday 13 May 2026 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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UoY: Alumni panel event

Wednesday 13 May 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Join us for a panel event exploring the journeys of our international graduates. This session offers current students the opportunity to hear first-hand accounts of how alumni have navigated their transition from university to the global job market.

We'll invite reflections from panelists on:

• What influenced their career decisions, including financial and visa factors
• How they went about their post graduation job search
• How their experience at York has helped them secure and succeed in their current activity
• Advice for current students preparing to enter the job market
• We'll also invite questions from the audience for our panel.

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Understanding stress and ways we can take action to find balance

Wednesday 13 May 2026 7pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Mental Health Awareness Week event

Organised by York for Life.

Join us to mark Mental Health Awareness Week by taking 'Action' to support good mental health!

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University Accessibility Awareness Day

Thursday 14 May 2026 9.30am - 4.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: Spring Lane Building (Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

The university will hold its first University Accessibility Awareness Day on 14th May. There is a packed and varied programme of in person, hybrid and online events, offering a mix of staff and student led events, as well as external speakers. Sessions will appeal to academics, researchers, students and all other staff so please explore the programme and come along! UAAD26

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Editing and Publishing your Podcast

Thursday 14 May 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

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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Eurovision Final - Courtyard Watch Party!

Saturday 16 May 2026 8pm - 11.30pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar (Derwent College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Hendrix Hall at The Courtyard will be showing the incredible Eurovision Song Contest Final!

Taking place on 16 May at 8pm at the Wiener Stadthalle Arena in Vienna, Austria, it will be an event you don’t want to miss.

To ensure the Eurovision enthusiasts are able to enjoy the show without disruption, we will be streaming directly into Hendrix Hall as a ticketed event. Don’t worry, you will be able to purchase food and drink from The Courtyard to take through with you.

Tickets are just £1 each, doors open from 7pm.

The Glasshouse will also be showing the Eurovision final as a non exclusive viewing, no tickets required.

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Glitter - Pre Pride Party

Saturday 16 May 2026 8pm - 11pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar (Derwent College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

It’s time to let your hair down and get ready for Pride, Glitter is back and glitzier than ever!

We’re starting the pride party early, so come and get in the spirit at Glitter!

Join us for an unforgettable LGBTQ+ club night in The Courtyard as we warm up for York Pride. Expect cheesy tunes and an incredible performance from PR!MAL the student DJ for the night that will bring that all important glam to Glitter.

We also have some Glitter exclusive drinks deals, including a Double Vodka and mixer for the price of a Single!

With tickets just £3, do you have any excuse not to come along?

York Parties X Voodoo Events Platinum Card Holders can gain free access to this event by showing their card.

You will be asked for Student ID to attend this event and Challenge 25 will be in effect so please have regular ID as well.

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Women's Six Nations live at The Courtyard: England VS France

Sunday 17 May 2026 4.45pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar (Derwent College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Watch England VS France in the Women's Six Nations live at The Courtyard!

Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Monday 18 May 2026 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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Postgraduate Student Social

Monday 18 May 2026 6pm - 9pm

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

Postgraduate Student Social!

Join us for a fun evening in the Wentworth College Hub for food, games and music! Whether you’re looking to meet new people, chill out after a day of hard PG graft, or just wanting to enjoy good company and some free snacks and drinks - this is a welcoming environment for you to connect with fellow PGs from across the Uni of York.

When? 6pm on Monday 18 May Where? Wentworth College Hub How much? FREE!

All postgraduates welcome! Come along, bring a friend, and enjoy the evening!

Microsoft Word for dissertations and theses

Tuesday 19 May 2026 10am - 12pm

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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PGT Dissertation Writing 3: Discussion and Conclusion

Wednesday 20 May 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

This workshop is aimed at postgraduate taught students. It will look at the purpose/function of the discussion and conclusion sections of a dissertation and then go on to examine how they can be structured and the sort of information they typically contain. It will also focus on the academic skills and language needed to write these sections.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 20 May 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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Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony of Audiences

Wednesday 20 May 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

CoSTAR Live Lab Presents

In this talk, Mike will discuss three projects using heart rate and motion detection methods to explore: A live-streamed major theatre production of ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ (in partnership with Bristol Old Vic and Complicité); a live jazz and classical lunchtime concert (in partnership with St George’s Bristol); and, an interactive musical virtual reality performance (in partnership with Aardman Animations and Tom Morris Productions). The results of these studies demonstrate how innovative experimental techniques can inform and compliment creative productions and gain a deeper understanding of audience experience.

You can also attend this lecture in-person at CoSTAR Live Lab, Wakefield.

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Adam Phillips in conversation with Hugh Haughton

Wednesday 20 May 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: V/N/045 Lecture Theatre (Vanbrugh College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Adam Phillips Lecture

At this event Adam Phillips will talk with Hugh Haughton about his recent book, 'The Life You Want'.

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Reading More Effectively: Comparing Traditional and AI Strategies

Friday 22 May 2026 11am - 12.30pm

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.

Artificial Intelligence can significantly enhance our reading efficiency. This workshop will explore techniques for utilising a Large Language Model to perform simple tasks on our behalf, greatly improving reading speed and saving valuable time.

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Applying Critical Thinking to Writing

Wednesday 27 May 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop helps students strengthen their academic writing by applying critical thinking skills at every stage of the process. Participants will learn how to question assumptions, evaluate evidence, identify logical connections, and construct well‑reasoned arguments. Through practical examples and guided activities, the session supports students in developing clearer, more analytical writing that demonstrates depth, independence, and academic rigour.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 27 May 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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Men and suicide: A cultural scripts perspective

Wednesday 27 May 2026 6pm - 7pm

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

Department of Sociology Lecture

This talk challenges universal myths of male suicidality, highlighting how cultural scripts and domestic involvement influence risks and prevention strategies.

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National Biscuit Day: Biscuit tasting and Biscuit Decorating

Friday 29 May 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: School for Business and Society
Location: Church Lane Building (Campus West)
Open to: The York Management School/Social Policy and Social Work

Do you have an appetite for sweet treats & creativity?

Love biscuits? Want to try some new ones? Help us settle the ultimate SBS biscuit debate with a fun poll - then dig in with tasty tasters!

Get messy with icing and decorate your own biscuit, meet new people, and enjoy a little sugar boost to keep you going through assessments with some serious biscuit fun!

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Power of Punctuation

Monday 1 June 2026 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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Summer Ball 2026

Tuesday 2 June 2026 6pm - 11.45pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Open to: Everyone

The York SU Summer Ball is back and tickets are on sale now!

Hosted at York Racecourse, the York SU Summer Ball 2026 will see a sell out crowd of four thousand students take over the Grandstand and adjoining suites for the biggest party of the year!

What to expect

• Live music over two stages featuring big names as well as student talent
• Fairground rides, carnival games, and street food
• In house casino with roulette, blackjack and more
• Silent Disco and late night entertainment
• Glitter Artists (in case you need that extra sparkle!)
• Street Performers

And loads more!

Please be aware that due to increased costs the price of Summer Ball tickets will be increasing by £5 from 1 March 2026. Find out more about the Summer Ball price changes

Full details available on the York SU website.

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The Distractibles Meetup Online

Wednesday 3 June 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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Stroll the University of York Solar System!

Wednesday 3 June 2026 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Postgraduate Student Communities
Open to: Postgraduates

Postgraduates, get your walking boots on and join the Postgraduate Communities team as we explore the University of York’s Model Solar System!

Did you know that The University has it's very own Solar System Model, featuring the Sun, the eight planets and the dwarf planet Pluto?

On the afternoon of Wednesday 3rd June, tag along with our resident astronomer, Thom, for a relaxing guided tour of the Solar System as we gently amble the two-mile route from Campus West to Campus East, taking in some of the many sights of campus along the way.

We’ll meet at the York SU building at 1pm before setting off together!

Postgraduate Pub Quiz!

Wednesday 3 June 2026 7pm - 9pm

Organiser: Postgraduate Student Communities
Location: The Courtyard, café and bar (Derwent College, Campus West)
Open to: Postgraduates

Put your knowledge to the test with fellow postgrads! Compete for prizes, chat with new people, and enjoy a chilled evening of trivia across a range of topics.

The quiz will start at 7pm and will last around 90 minutes - entry is free, and no sign-up is required! The event is BYOB. We will have plenty of soft drinks, but you're welcome to bring beers and wines if you want to get into the spirit!

This is a social, relaxed event - you’re welcome to come with friends or join a team on the night. It’s a great chance to unwind, have fun, and connect with other postgraduates.

Where: THE COURTYARD When: 7pm on Wednesday 3rd June

Free entry – all welcome!