London newsletter: January 2024
Welcome to your first London campus newsletter. We’re very excited to begin this new quarterly newsletter, exclusively for our alumni who studied at our London campus.
In this newsletter, learn more about accessing your lifelong career support, find out about our upcoming events and read about the latest developments at your campus.
News from our London campus
More space for innovation
Last year, we were excited to open a new floor to enhance our student experience. When we hosted our Celebration of Achievement event in November, we were lucky enough to preview the space. The new floor includes social areas, a kitchenette to improve student experience, specialist business incubator space and more learning rooms! The new floor has also been awarded the highest official accolade for its sustainable re-fit, a fantastic achievement.
Welcoming new students to campus
In the next few weeks, our London campus will be welcoming new students as they begin their courses. Whilst almost all of our undergraduate programmes begin in autumn, it’s fantastic to also welcome new students in Spring to our range of postgraduate courses.
Careers
Lifelong career support
Did you know that as an alum of York St John University, you can access lifelong career support? You can access this support at any time and at any point in your career:
- Free career advisor appointments
- Access to our current career platforms and events
- CV and cover letter support
- Access to our digital graduate package
Find out more about your lifelong career support on our website.
Say hello to handshake
As part of your lifelong career support, you can access our new career’s platform, Handshake. After creating your account, you can browse upcoming career events, look for job opportunities and connect with other professionals in your field.
Events are hosted in person, as hybrid events or entirely online, so keep checking Handshake to find out which events might be of interest to you.
You can sign up or log into your Handshake account on the Handshake website.
Alumination
Last year, we launched Alumination. Alumination is the place where we store all of our alumni snapshots and information about our fantastic donor community.
Alumni snapshots are an easy way to share your successes and support our students. By sharing your career story and advice, we hope to showcase our alumni community and the fantastic range of careers our alumni pursue after studying with us. In the future, we hope to use alumni snapshots to directly connect alumni with our student community.
Alumination is also where we store case studies from students who received scholarships, and share case studies from alumni who contribute towards them. York St John has a long history of alumni continuing to support our student community, and moving forward, we’re excited to expand this.
Browse Alumination or submit your snapshot.
Your alumni community
Three campuses, one university
When we opened in 1841, we opened in a single building in York. In 1846, we moved to our current York campus and we’ve never looked back! Between 1846 and 2024, we’ve had campuses, affiliate programmes and more all over the world. Today, we’ve condensed our fantastic history into three separate campuses: London, Ripon and York.
This year, we’re excited to continue hosting more events for our fantastic alumni community. We’ll announce all upcoming events by email, so make sure your details are up-to-date using this online form.
Webinars
Since 2021, we’ve been sharing alumni career stories through free webinars. Available to watch on YouTube, our webinars share career stories from a range of industries, and from alumni at various stages in their careers.
This year, we’re releasing a further four webinars before the start of the next academic year.
- In February, we’ll be sharing Class of 1986 alumna Ros’ webinar about her varied career since graduating.
- In March, Class of 2018 alumna Jenna will share some of her insights from her marketing career in the publishing industry.
- In April, Connor, who graduated in 2022, will share information about their career so far as a sports therapist.
- In May, we’ll share our final webinar of this academic year. Lauren currently works as a speech and language therapist and will be sharing some of her advice for how to gain experience in this field.
Browse our webinars on YouTube.
Upcoming events
York St John University runs a range of fantastic events all year round. Whilst many are held in person at our York campus, some events are also available as hybrid events or are recorded and available to watch back on YouTube. You can browse our upcoming events on Eventbrite.
On YouTube you can watch previous events including:
- Inaugural lectures from some of our Professors
- Webinars, talks and panels from our Centre for Religion in Society
- Back to the Future: A seminar series about the 1980s
- Author and panel discussions from the York Centre for Writing
- 23 online events on the subject of Imperial Power in the Roman Empire
