New Starbucks Special - Caramel Macchiato

Friday 16 January 2026 0.15am - Sunday 15 March 2026 0.15am

Organiser: Eat, Shop And Drink
Open to: Everyone

Starbucks is celebrating two of its most beloved coffee classics with The Perfect Pair - now available at Piazza and The Link! This special combo features both the Iced Caramel Macchiato and the Caramel Macchiato, a duo made for caramel lovers and coffee enthusiasts alike.

Whether you want something cool to sip on the go or a classic warm espresso drink, this pairing brings the best of both worlds! ☕

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New Fitness Class: Introduction to weights

Sunday 1 February 2026 - Saturday 28 February 2026

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre (Campus West)
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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New Fitness Class: Women's strength

Sunday 1 February 2026 - Saturday 28 February 2026

Organiser: York Sport
Location: York Sport Centre (Campus West)
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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Yoga and Snacks @ The Basement

Sunday 8 February 2026 3pm - Sunday 8 March 2026 4pm

Organiser: Langwith
Open to: Langwith

Join us for a relaxing afternoon of yoga, suitable for all abilities, followed by some free snacks.

Weekly Karaoke at The Glasshouse

Friday 13 February 2026 8pm - Friday 13 March 2026 10pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: LCE/016 Langwith Glasshouse (Langwith College, Campus East)
Open to: Everyone

Join us for our weekly karaoke at The Glasshouse every Friday.

Bring your mates and come on down for a singalong!

The Glasshouse karaoke night takes place every Friday from 8:00pm and you can even book in to host the karaoke as your own event.

We’ll also be serving YUZU Street Food, featuring Bao Buns, Gyoza, Loaded Fries, and more!

The Glasshouse also has shuffleboard, pool tables and darts.

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Confidence to Present

Monday 23 February 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

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

Your presentation may be well put together, but can you present it effectively? In this interactive workshop we discuss and practise some of the delivery skills needed to communicate your work to an audience, be that through a PPT or an academic poster presentation.

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Asteroseismology: The Music of the Stars

Monday 23 February 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Webinar Series

Join us to learn about how asteroseismology, the study of pulsations in stars, is contributing to a revolution of understanding of stellar interiors.

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Blender: Part 1 & Part 2 (ONLINE)

Tuesday 24 February 2026 10am - 12pm

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

Interested in how more complex 3D models are created from scratch?

Blender is a free, open-source and advanced tool for creating detailed 3D models and is widely used for many purposes, from video games to 3D printing. In this two-week course, we will explore how to get started with this tool and explore some of brilliant ways it can be used to help your study, teaching or research. We will cover:

• Key tools and keyboard shortcuts for getting started
• Using automated tools to make changes to models
• Lots of practice in creating your own objects from scratch
• Creating a number of parts and putting them together

On signing up to this session, you are signing up for two two-hour sessions, with the second session held the same time the following week:

Session 1 takes place on Tuesday 4 November 2025, 3pm - 5pm Session 2 takes place on Tuesday 11 November 2025, 3pm - 5pm

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Organise your life with Google!

Tuesday 24 February 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

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

Sort your life out!

Join us for this session as we share tips on how to use Google’s tools to help you stay organised. Whether it’s using note taking apps to stay on top of your to-do list, managing your time effectively in Google Calendar, staying on top of your emails or organising your files in Google Drive, we’ve got you covered.

We will look at helping you get organised with:

• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Keep
• Google Tasks
• Google Drive
• Google Chrome
• Google Contacts.

Google Workspace: a Practical Guide

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Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950

Tuesday 24 February 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

LGBT+ History Month Lecture

Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.

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From Hope to Repression: Algeria, seven years after the uprising

Wednesday 25 February 2026 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: ARC/014 Alan Maynard Auditorium (Alcuin Research Resource Centre, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Learning from Human Rights Defenders series

On February 22, 2019, Algeria witnessed unprecedented peaceful popular demonstrations across the country. Millions of Algerians took to the streets to say “no” to a fifth term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in power since 1999, and to demand profound change in the political system. The movement, initially a beacon of hope for change, quickly ran into a political deadlock and unprecedented repression, targeting in particular actors from civil society.

In this talk, an Algerian journalist will analyse the developments that led to deterioration in the human rights situation, particularly regarding freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly.

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: A student’s guide to using generative AI at York

Wednesday 25 February 2026 1pm - 2pm

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

Generative artificial intelligence (or AI for short) is being talked about and used all around us, including in universities. In this hour-long bitesized session, the first in a series of AI-related sessions, we will take a look at what generative AI actually is and which generative AI tools are available for students to use at York. We’ll then delve into the advantages, disadvantages, and ethical conundrums that have arisen from generative AI, including false authorship, copyright, and training data. Can we trust the outputs that generative AI gives us? And is it going to take over the world?

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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Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 25 February 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
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 25 February 2026 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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Psychoanalysis as moral education

Wednesday 25 February 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: SLB/118 Lecture Theatre (Spring Lane Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Adam Phillips Lecture

The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, writer and psychoanalyst.

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Varsity Flag Making @ Constantine College Hub

Thursday 26 February 2026 10.30am - 4pm

Organiser: Campus East Colleges
Open to: Anne Lister/Constantine/David Kato/Langwith/Goodricke

Join us at Constantine College to design flags that will ignite your College Sports Teams to victory! To sweeten the deal, the first 100 to finish their flags will be able to cash-in a donut.

Digital skills for research: Searching the literature

Thursday 26 February 2026 1pm - 3pm

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

It's important to do the reading, but literature searching itself can be a hassle. In this session, aimed predominantly at PhD research but applicable to other large-scale research projects, we look at the stages of the literature search process, from planning and preparing your search, developing an effective search strategy, and utilising specialist search skills, through to accessing the texts that your search finds.

Searching for information: Search skills

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Board Games & Snacks @ Alcuin JCR

Thursday 26 February 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Campus West Colleges
Location: A/JCR Alcuin Junior Common Room (Alcuin College, Campus West)
Open to: Alcuin/Wentworth/Derwent/Halifax/James/Vanbrugh

Join us at the Alcuin JCR for some board games and snacks! All West Campus Colleges are welcome!

Getting Started with SPSS

Thursday 26 February 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
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 - Celebrating Global Voices!

Thursday 26 February 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: International Student Communities
Open to: Everyone

Our third International Student Social celebrates the theme of language: bringing together voices, stories, and cultures from across our global community!

This week it's International Mother Language Day!

A relaxed evening featuring human bingo (with prizes!) and karaoke alongside our usual crafts, games, and food. Whether you want to sing, meet new people, practise a language, or simply enjoy the atmosphere, this is a welcoming space to connect and have fun! Where: Derwent Student Common Rooms

When: 5pm on Thursday 26th Feb

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The Future of Education: Driving social change and life chances

Thursday 26 February 2026 6.30pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: RCH/037 Lecture Theatre (Ron Cooke Hub, Campus East)
Open to: Everyone

Social Change Catalyst Lecture

How can education evolve to meet the demands of a shifting global economy while securing a fairer future?

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Academic Language

Friday 27 February 2026 11am - 12.30pm

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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Creative Clothes Mending Workshop

Monday 2 March 2026 11am

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: LFA/204 Seminar Room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

This Sustainability Week, join us for a workshop on mending your clothes!

In this workshop you’ll learn all about how to give your worn-out clothes a new lease of life.

Find out all the information you need and buy your £1 ticket on the York SU website. (All of the £1 you spend on a ticket goes to York SU’s charity partner, Tang Hall Community Centre).

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Writing and Citing

Monday 2 March 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

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

In academic writing, we need to refer to the ideas and work of others. To do this, we often use direct quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This workshop will focus on when and how to use sources in these different ways. It will also focus on how to avoid plagiarism when using others' work. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Eating with the Seasons Workshop

Tuesday 3 March 2026 12pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: P/L/006 Seminar Room (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Being a conscious food consumer can really help reduce your carbon footprint, so this Sustainability Week, join us for a workshop all about eating with the seasons!

You’ll come away from this workshop with a microgreens windowsill planter that you’ve made using repurposed containers.

Find out more and get your £1 ticket on the York SU website! (All of the £1 you spend on a ticket goes to York SU’s charity partner, Tang Hall Community Centre).

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Managing and Analysing Questionnaire Data

Tuesday 3 March 2026 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session is for people who have collected and will be analysing quantitative questionnaire data using statistical software (e.g. SPSS, RStudio, STATA, Excel). We will cover the types of data produced by different question types, how to summarise and visualise responses and how to analyse data. Using an example dataset, you will be able to practice managing and analysing questionnaire data in your chosen statistical software.

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Holi: Festival of Colours Celebration!

Tuesday 3 March 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: International Student Communities
Location: E/BOWL Vanbrugh Bowl (Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Join us for a vibrant, colourful celebration marking the end of winter! Expect music, snacks, and lots of messy fun!

Wear a white T-shirt and come along ready to celebrate. Whether you come with friends or on your own, it’s a great chance to meet new people and enjoy a lively, welcoming atmosphere. Please note: capacity is strictly limited to 100 people, on a first come, first served basis.

Date | Tuesday 3rd of March Time | 3pm Location | Vanbrugh Bowl, Campus West

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Digitalisation and Decarbonisation: Perspectives of Data Centre Development

Tuesday 3 March 2026 7pm - 8pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

York for Life Sustainability Network webinar

This webinar explores data centre expansion, examining five strategic dimensions to align digital growth with resilient, low-carbon sustainability goals.

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UG Dissertation Writing 2: Method and Results

Wednesday 4 March 2026 10.30am - 12pm

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

We will look at how we can plan and piece together your methods section. What actually goes into methods, and what do we save for the results and discussion? We will also look at how we present our research findings and data - How much data do we even need? What do we do when the results aren’t what we expected?

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New Year, Same Planet Fair

Wednesday 4 March 2026 1pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: J/HALL James Hall (James College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

This Sustainability Week, join us at the New Year Same Planet Fair! Meet students running amazing sustainability initiatives on campus and connect with local charities and organisations contributing to making a greener York.

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Creating accessible presentations

Wednesday 4 March 2026 1pm - 2pm

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

Whether you are presenting in-person, online, or just creating slides for learning materials: it's important to consider the elements and faux pas that can render your presentation inaccessible. Join us to look at the key universal design principles to consider when using Google Slides and PowerPoint in your work and practical tips for when presenting both online and around the University.

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Brew and Bark

Wednesday 4 March 2026 1.30pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Campus East Colleges
Open to: Anne Lister/Langwith/Goodricke/Constantine/David Kato

Prepare for Uni Mental Health Day with a Brew and Bark session hosted by East College Community and Dog Society! Book your slot through Dog Soc's Ig.

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 4 March 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
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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Create a 3D-printable part

Wednesday 4 March 2026 2pm - 4pm

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

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 ready for 3D printing. No previous experience needed, we'll show you how to get started in a modelling tool and work through some of the key tips. 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. Please note: to use our YorCreate 3D printers, you must also attend a separate safety induction before or after this session, see the YorCreate webpage for upcoming dates

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Everything we think we know about religion is wrong

Wednesday 4 March 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: RCH/037 Lecture Theatre (Ron Cooke Hub, Campus East)
Open to: Everyone

Heslington Lecture

Join Professor Erin Wilson as she challenges our preconceived ideas about what “religion” is and considering what it means for humanity in the 21st century.

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Plogging

Thursday 5 March 2026 9am

Organiser: York Students' Union
Open to: Everyone

This Sustainability Week, join us for a gentle jog and some litter picking around West campus. There will be a free hot drink waiting for you at The Courtyard at the end.

Head to the York SU website for more information.

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Designing presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides

Thursday 5 March 2026 1pm - 3pm

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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Getting Started with STATA

Thursday 5 March 2026 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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International Student Social – Celebrating Women Around the World!

Thursday 5 March 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: International Student Communities
Open to: Everyone

Our fourth International Student Social celebrates International Women’s Day, bringing together our community to celebrate women’s stories, and experiences from around the world.

Open to everyone, the evening will include plenty of opportunities to connect through conversation, crafts, games, and food, as well as a a film screening by a female director. Whether you join in, watch, chat, or simply enjoy the atmosphere, everyone is welcome.

Where: Derwent Student Common Rooms When: 5pm on Thursday [5th March]

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Prince of Wales: Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive

Thursday 5 March 2026 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: P/L/001 Lecture Theatre (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

York Society of Engineers Lecture

The presentation by Graham will cover the reasons why the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has decided to build a P2, including a brief history of the class of locomotive.

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Structuring Paragraphs Effectively

Friday 6 March 2026 11am - 12.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

One of the most important areas of academic writing is being able to build clear paragraphs which develop a topic in a coherent and cohesive way. This session will not only focus on how paragraphs are structured and the different types of sentences paragraphs contain, but it will also look at how we can signal the link between paragraphs. It will also pay specific attention to how to write clear topic sentences. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Make your own Climate Zine

Friday 6 March 2026 12pm

Organiser: York Students' Union
Location: CL/A/023X Seminar room (Church Lane Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Join us this Sustainability Week for a guided workshop on making your own Zine!

Create your own Zine exploring themes of nature, climate change, climate justice, and social justice using recycled materials.

Find out more and get your £1 ticket on the York SU website. (All of the £1 you spend on a ticket goes to York SU’s charity partner, Tang Hall Community Centre).

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Designing surveys

Friday 6 March 2026 1pm - 3pm

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

Let's make badly designed forms and surveys a thing of the past!

In this session, we'll take a look at the principles of survey design, from what kinds of questions to ask to get the data you're looking for to how to choose question types and use logic. We'll then consider how put them to practice in the two main survey tools we have at York: Google Forms and Qualtrics.

Data: Gathering data

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THEATRE SHOW: Palestine: Peace de Resistance

Friday 6 March 2026 8pm - 10pm

Organiser: School of ACT Events
Open to: Everyone

Off the back of a sold-out London run and critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe, Sami Abu Wardeh’s hit show blends resistance, identity, and 'defiantly goofy' comedy (★★★★ The Guardian).

You can run from resistance, but it will always catch up with you – as Sami Abu Wardeh finds out in his critically acclaimed show, fresh from winning a Bestie Award and Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This is comedy where silliness collides with survival. Expect an open call for mass civil disobedience, equitable distribution of hand puppets, and some of the silliest faces you’ll ever see. As a Palestinian born in exile, only to be displaced from his country of birth by yet another war, Sami digs deep into his ties to resistance and Palestinian identity. What emerges is bold, playful and utterly original: a show that asks whether resistance can be funny, and answers with laughter.

Salam & Holohan in association with Palestine Comedy Club

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International Women's Day - Tea and Scones

Monday 9 March 2026 11.30am - 1pm

Organiser: Campus East Colleges
Open to: Anne Lister/Langwith/Constantine/David Kato/Goodricke

Celebrate International Women's Day with Tea and Sones in Anne Lister! All studens welcome.

How to Write an Argument

Monday 9 March 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop introduces students to the key components of effective academic argumentation. Participants will learn how to develop a clear position, support it with credible evidence, and structure their ideas logically. Through practical examples and guided activities, the session helps students strengthen their critical thinking, refine their reasoning, and communicate persuasive arguments in their academic writing. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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The Art of Not Eating: A doubtful history of appetite and desire

Monday 9 March 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

International Women's Day Lecture

Jessica Hamel-Akré traces modern diet culture and female appetite back to eighteenth-century roots through history and memoir.

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360° Filmmaking

Tuesday 10 March 2026 10am - 12pm

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

Ever wondered how a 360° video works and where the camera operator is hiding?

In this practical session in the Creativity Lab, we’ll explore and play with 360° cameras. Tops tips will be shared around capturing (including how to hide), followed by a chance to capture your own footage. You will learn about some practical considerations when you’re trying to film a whole space in one go and how to go about planning for a video. We’ll explore basic editing and how to compile your 360° videos, along with what to do with them once completed.

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Procrastination: What It Is and How to Deal With It

Tuesday 10 March 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

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

In this workshop we examine procrastination, its possible causes and consequences, then look at strategies to try to address procrastination in creative and constructive ways.

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PGT Dissertation Writing: An Introduction

Tuesday 10 March 2026 3.30pm - 5pm

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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Gendered online abuse against women in public life: More than just words

Tuesday 10 March 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

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

International Women's Day Lecture

Susan Watson presents research-driven policy solutions addressing gendered online abuse against women in public life.

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PGT Dissertation Writing 1: introduction and literature review

Wednesday 11 March 2026 10.30am - 12pm

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

This workshop is for postgraduate taught students only. It will look at the purpose of introductions and literature reviews 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 of a dissertation.

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Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 11 March 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
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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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Microsoft Word for dissertations and theses

Wednesday 11 March 2026 2pm - 4pm

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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UoY: Post Study Visa Options

Wednesday 11 March 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Careers
Open to: Everyone

This event is designed for international students, but all students are welcome.

Join Careers and Placements and the International Student Support team to hear about the UK visas available to you after your degree. We will cover a range of visas, including the Graduate Visa and Skilled Worker Visa, and give practical tips to iprove your chances of getting a job. In addition, we will discuss how to present your visa information in your application form, CV, and interview.

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The Creaturely Camera: Animals in Early British Photography

Wednesday 11 March 2026 5pm - 7pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: V/N/123 Lecture Room (Vanbrugh College, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

History of Art Research Seminar

Rosalind Hayes examines how Victorian animal photography sparked technological innovation and shaped modern views of nature using animals as photographic subjects.

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Critically evaluating information: What makes a credible source?

Thursday 12 March 2026 1pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

In this session we'll think broadly about what makes a reliable source of information. We'll start by considering online sources and how, given so many voices, and the growth of generative artificial intelligence, we can possibly hope to tell truth from lies. We’ll explore frameworks for evaluating information and determining credibility, and we'll consider why some sources are considered more reliable than others. We'll also start to look at how we might use such sources in support of an academic argument.

Being critical: Evaluating information Searching for information: Academic sources

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

Thursday 12 March 2026 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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Universal Multilingualism: From Creolistics to Theoretical Linguistics

Thursday 12 March 2026 4pm - 5pm

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

Robert Le Page Lecture

Professor Aboh is a leading scholar in theoretical syntax and language creation. His research explores the learnability of human language, with a particular focus on comparative syntax across language families including Kwa, Germanic, Romance, Sinitic and Caribbean creoles. His work on the discourse-syntax interface and language change has made significant contributions to our understanding of how languages develop and evolve. Professor Aboh will give a talk on "Universal Multilingualism: From Creolistics to Theoretical Linguistics"

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Writing effective prompts for generative AI with Gemini and NotebookLM

Friday 13 March 2026 1pm - 2pm

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

Generative AI tools can be used effectively to work through problems or to develop your understanding of a topic, but you need to think carefully about the ‘prompts’ (the questions and commands) you're using if you're to get good quality results. In this hour-long bitesize workshop we will explore how to craft effective and safe prompts for the main AI tools we have at York — Google Gemini and NotebookLM — and how this compares to more traditional ways of finding academic information. We will also consider how to adapt and interpret your outputs, and how to make best use of advanced models and features within the tools.

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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PGT Dissertation Writing 2: Methods and Results

Friday 13 March 2026 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
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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Essay Writing

Monday 16 March 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

How to understand correctly what essay titles are asking you to do, and how this can help you to adopt an appropriate essay structure and line of argument are the main focuses of this session. It will also introduce a range of essay structures and strategies for developing persuasive arguments. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty

Monday 16 March 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

International Women's Day Lecture

A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends

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Reference management

Tuesday 17 March 2026 1pm - 3pm

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

How do you manage your reading and keep track of the material you find? In this workshop, we'll take a look at how managing your reading fits into the academic reading and citing process, reflect on what might work for you, and explore options for keeping track of your reading. We'll then look at how reference management software can help you store, organise, and use citation information, looking at how specific features of Zotero and Paperpile can be used for this process.

Reference Management Practical Guide

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How to Use Feedback to Improve your Mark

Tuesday 17 March 2026 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Sometimes, when we get feedback from markers, we are not sure which direction to take to make improvements. In this workshop, we will be looking at feedback on assignments from academic staff and identifying how this advice can be used to improve our writing. We will also consider what resources/sessions are available from the academic skills community to work on these areas for improvement.

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Masters Taster Day

Wednesday 18 March 2026 10am - 4pm

Organiser: Student Recruitment
Location: Campus West
Open to: Everyone

Find your future at York. Join us on campus to get a taste of postgraduate life at York with academic sessions, expert insight, and practical advice.

Whether you’ve got questions about funding (and remember, our graduate discount may be able to help with that) or are curious to see how a postgraduate degree could benefit you, come along. It’s free and you’ll be in the company of like-minded peers, knowledgeable staff and friendly students.

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Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Wednesday 18 March 2026 10.30am - 12pm

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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UoY: Graduate Entry into Medicine

Wednesday 18 March 2026 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session - presented by Dr Veronica McKay - will explain undergraduate and graduate entry training routes for Medicine. It will also include information about: financial support; different approaches to training; the application process; and getting work experience.

This session is open to students from any degree discipline who are interested in finding out more about training in Medicine

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How to run better Zoom meetings

Wednesday 18 March 2026 12.30pm - 2pm

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

Whether you are using Zoom for meetings, interviews, teaching sessions or looking to generally improve your video-conferencing skills: join us to look at all the settings and best-practice to follow to make your Zoom sessions run smoothly with confidence.

We will look at:

• Setting up your Zoom calls with confidence
• Managing participants, keeping on top of the chat and being a responsive host
• Common faux-pas, issues and troubleshooting
• Managing hybrid meetings effectively
• How to record and share your meetings
• Following accessibility best-practices

Video conferencing

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Adaptive VR Horror Experiences

Wednesday 18 March 2026 1pm - 2pm

Organiser: Open Lectures
Open to: Everyone

Venue: CoSTAR Live Lab, Production Park WF9 3NR or ONLINE

CoSTAR Live Lab Presents

Ever wondered what happens when a VR horror film can sense your fear, and change how the story is told in real time? Join us for a live talk and demo exploring physiological, adaptive VR horror, volumetric performance capture, and AI-powered creative workflows.

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Explore handheld 3D scanning

Wednesday 18 March 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
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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UoY: Understanding the UK labour market

Wednesday 18 March 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: SLB/001 Seminar Room (Spring Lane Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

This event is designed for international students, but all students are welcome.

This session gives an overview of the UK job market for students who are planning to stay and work after graduation. We will cover how to research employers and opportunities, the types of jobs available, and where to find and apply for roles.

By the end of the session, students will be able to understand the UK job market, identify suitable opportunities, and take the next steps in planning an effective job search after graduation.

More specific information about application processes will be covered in a further session.

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Finding academic literature - going beyond your reading list

Thursday 19 March 2026 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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YorCreate: So you want to 3D print a D&D miniature?

Thursday 19 March 2026 5pm - 6.30pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/132 YorCreate (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Have you ever wanted to create your own custom miniature figurines for tabletop gaming? In this session we’ll look at how you can digitally design a 3D miniature for Dungeons & Dragons and similar games, and we’ll share our advice for how to most-effectively 3D print your miniatures. We’ll also consider what other peripheral items we could print, such as dice towers and dungeon tiles.

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UG Dissertation Writing 3: Discussion & Conclusion

Friday 20 March 2026 11am - 12.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Undergraduates

This final session explores how we discuss our results and bring everything together in a compelling way. How do we find meaning in our results and relate them to the literature? What questions do our results raise, and how can we acknowledge and account for unforeseen limitations of our research? Finally we will look at how we tie the discussion section back to our introduction, and how to write a compelling abstract.

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How to Get a First (All UGs)

Monday 23 March 2026 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Undergraduates

This workshop helps you decide where to focus your energies to enable you to move from good to even better in your academic work. If you are aiming high, you will get ideas for what markers might see in your work to convince them your work deserves that top grade.

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Create a simple 2D platformer game

Tuesday 24 March 2026 10am - 12pm

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

Let's make a simple platform game. Games can be a brilliant tool to aid learning, or share your study/research.

Using a tool called Gdevelop, we'll look at the beginner steps to build your first simple game, with step-by-step instructions and lots of time to have a go yourself. We'll look at some of the key areas of game mechanics, and have some time to plan out our ideas for a simple game. No coding knowledge is required. This is an in-person session in the Creativity Lab.

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Getting Started with RStudio

Tuesday 24 March 2026 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, but would like to use RStudio in the future to carry out statistical analyses.

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Critical Thinking: What It Is and How to Do It

Wednesday 25 March 2026 10.30am - 12pm

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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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Working with data in spreadsheets

Wednesday 25 March 2026 2pm - 4pm

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

It's one thing getting some data; it's another thing knowing what to do with it. In this session we'll take a look at methods for finding, importing, and cleaning up data, and performing simple analyses in a spreadsheet. We'll also consider principles for structuring data, and how you can reshape it to suit different needs.

Essential Spreadsheets

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YSIS Plus 1: Inspiring Practice in Primary/Secondary _ysis

Wednesday 25 March 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: D/L/036 Lecture Room (Derwent L Block, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Using real examples from local schools, this session highlights how teachers create positive learning environments, plan purposeful lessons, and build a strong sense of belonging in Primary and Secondary Schools. You will leave the session with practical ideas and a clear sense of how you can make a difference.

It will be delivered by experienced teachers Vic Allen and Nikki Sharratt who are both School Partnership Facilitators in the University of York's PGCE team.

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UoY: Careers In... Protecting Arts & Heritage

Wednesday 25 March 2026 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: P/X/001 Lecture Theatre (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

The event will start with a panel Q&A for one hour, followed by the opportunity to talk informally with the participants.

With recent high-profile thefts from some of the world’s most prestigious museums, the impact of global conflict on cultural heritage and the strong impetus to address decolonising collections, how we protect our Arts and heritage has never been a more important issue.

Join our panel Q&A to hear fascinating insights from professionals working in the sector and find out if this is the career for you!

This is a great opportunity to find out more about these areas of work and prospects for graduates, and to chat to our panel and invited guests after the initial session.

Please note that there will be three panels running simultaneously on the night, followed by networking for all three panels. You can therefore attend only one panel on the night, but will have the opportunity to network and ask questions to other speakers after the panels.

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UoY: Careers In... Cyber Security

Wednesday 25 March 2026 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: P/L/001 Lecture Theatre (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

The event will start with a panel Q&A for one hour, followed by the opportunity to talk informally with the participants.

You'll hear from York Graduates and professionals working in a variety of roles and organisations in this field; they will share with you their insights into how to get into their area of employment, what sorts of things employers will be looking for in potential graduates and a brief overview of their own background as well as taking questions from the floor - so come prepared with questions you would like to ask our panel!

This is a great opportunity to find out more about these industries and to chat to our panel and invited guests after the initial session.

Please note that there will be three panels running simultaneously on the night, followed by networking for all three panels. You can therefore attend only one panel on the night, but will have the opportunity to network and ask questions to other speakers after the panels.

UoY: Careers In... Social Impact

Wednesday 25 March 2026 6pm - 8pm

Organiser: Careers
Location: P/L/002 Lecture Theatre (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

The event will start with a panel Q&A for one hour, followed by the opportunity to talk informally with the participants.

You'll hear from York Graduates and professionals working in a variety of roles and organisations in this field; they will share with you their insights into how to get into their area of employment, what sorts of things employers will be looking for in potential graduates and a brief overview of their own background as well as taking questions from the floor - so come prepared with questions you would like to ask our panel!

This is a great opportunity to find out more about these industries and to chat to our panel and invited guests after the initial session.

Please note that there will be three panels running simultaneously on the night, followed by networking for all three panels. You can therefore attend only one panel on the night, but will have the opportunity to network and ask questions to other speakers after the panels.

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