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Monthly Archives: October 2016

This is a guest post written by Charlotte Haines-Lyon, PhD Student in the School of Education. Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) – “Write like there’s no December” November is not just the month when men grow moustaches, it is also the month of writing. Building on the successful NaNoWriMo , when […]

Academic Writing Month – “Write like there’s no December”

October 28, 2016 in Contributors / Research tagged Academic Writing / AcWriMo / Research / School of Education / Twitter by Phil Vincent

Are you a member of student at York St John who would like to be paid to take part in a research project with staff? This academic year we continue to provide opportunities for students to work as research assistants with members of staff across the University, in various aspects of […]

Students as Researchers Scheme – Student Applications now open!

October 26, 2016 in Uncategorized by Emma Sunley

Talking About Teaching: Exploring Graduate Attributes, York St John University, 20th January 2017 TAT is York St John University’s annual Learning & Teaching conference. If you want the opportunity to share good practice with like-minded professionals, to help generate discussion and debate, or wish to present your recent research […]

Talking About Teaching 2017

October 17, 2016 in Events tagged Events / learning / teaching by Gabby Wilson

As a New Year begins at York St John University you cannot help but notice all the changes happening on campus. But it’s not just the buildings that are changing, the staff body is too. For a while now there have been adjustments to the University structure and 5th September marked […]

New Year, New Team

October 10, 2016 in Contributors / Learning and Teaching / News tagged organisation / staff / structure / team by Gabby Wilson

In 2015-16, Academic Development held 12 writing retreats; two of these overnight at the KP Club in Pocklington, York and 10 mini-retreats at York St John. Both staff and postgraduate research students attended to work on a variety of writing pieces; from thesis chapters to mindmaps, from conference papers to […]

Writing Retreats

October 7, 2016 in Research / Research training and events / Uncategorized by Emma Sunley

Earlier this year, I attended the 2nd Research Reflections conference at York St John University, hosted on Thursday 8th September 2016 by the Academic Development Directorate. As part of the administrative staff here at York St John, I have been highly involved in organising and running research events, but this […]

Research Reflections 2016

October 3, 2016 in Events / Learning and Teaching / News / Research tagged conference / event / Research by Gabby Wilson