SAR Projects 2016-17
We have been busy over the last few months processing staff applications for student researchers, advertising the vacancies and recruiting new Student Researchers. We are delighted to say that we now have 26 student...
Category: Project Update
Voices of the University – why being a student researcher is awesome!
by Jess Dale Student researching is an innovative way for students to experience research for the first time. With the help of staff to keep you on the straight and narrow, this may seem...
Voices in the university – TACKLING THE UNKNOWN
17th February 2016, we’re on campus at York St John University and we have the pleasure of a team meeting in the evening to discuss and familiarise ourselves with interview technique and the filming...
SaR: Thinking Towards the Future
“This will look so good on your CV!!” From the moment I was told that I had been successful in my application to become a student researcher, this sentence has been uttered to me...
Enhancing Employability and Widening Diversity: why the SaR scheme is so crucial in Higher Education.
As a post-graduate student, I have attended York St John University for almost 4 years, and I wish I could tell my younger self how important it is to take up opportunities like these....
Getting paid to improve your Degree
by Hannah Keeble Working as a research assistant is flexible, uni-related, and useful. It is a great way to be productive, get yourself named on a research paper, and earn some money! I am...
SaR Reflections: Navigating the Student-Staff Transition at YSJ
Several weeks have passed since my first tentative steps into my role as Student Researcher and so far it has been an enjoyable one. I have been challenged in many ways by this role...
Why do Student as Researcher Scheme???
The way to explain why people should do the student as researcher scheme is to explain my own personal experience and reasons for doing it. Why did I do it? Simplistically, I really wanted...
Voices in the University- An Oral History Project @ YSJ
Hello and welcome to my little personal introduction and reflection on the York St John oral history and the community project! I am Harriet Bartle, a first year History and English Literature student here at...
Grades and Attendance
As a Student Researcher I get an opportunity to work on a project that relates a lot with the role I’ve been involved with the Students’ Union here at YSJ. It’s interesting how a research...