Post Graduate Skills Development

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If you're a HYMS post grad then this autumn we have some treats for you! Whether you want to sharpen your skills or learn something new; there's support at Hull and York with sessions covering everything from open access publishing to computing for research, and everything in between. 

York are running PG Wednesdays: Staff from across the University run most of the sessions and they also provide opportunities for you to get involved, for example to showcase your own research or talk about your ‘top tips’ for research practice. PG Wednesdays run every Wednesday afternoon. The 2016-17 programme starts on Wednesday 5 October 2016 and runs through to Wednesday 27 September 2017.

At Hull you can check out the PG Skills Development Programme which provides development opportunities for postgraduate students (taught/research), researchers and staff.

Also coming up at Hull is a credited module on Research Data Management

Don't forget that as a HYMS student you are able to take advantage of the training offered at both sites, so if you're interested, click on the links for further information and booking details.

Post Graduate Workshops in Statistics

Statistics, data collection and analysis, predictive analytics; whatever you want to call it, if you are using statistics in your research, then you may well want to take advantage of a series of statistics workshops  run by the University of York's Maths Skills Centre. The workshops are running from April- June 2016 for all postgraduate students.   

The 4 workshops being offered (all on Wednesday afternoons - see website for dates & more details) are:

An Introduction to SPSS

Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Analysis

Using Graphs and Measures of Association

Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing

Feedback suggests that these workshops have been useful complements to courses available in departments and they have become very popular. There are limited places available so if you are interested we recommend that you sign up to the workshops as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. More details and an on-line course sign up are available at:

The Maths Centre web pages

HYMS postgraduates who are based at Hull are more than welcome to sign up for these workshops if they are able to make it York, if not, don’t forget that there are similar workshops available from the skills development programme at Hull. 

UoY Library: Lending limit changes for taught PGs

The Library is increasing the lending limit for taught postgraduates from 30 items at any one time to 50 after discussion with the GSA on the issue of opening hours over the summer holidays. This is a permanent change that comes into effect immediately. Research postgraduates have always had a lending limit of 50 items.

If you have any queries about this change, please contact Jackie Knowles, Customer Services Manager, on lib-comments@york.ac.uk, or contact library@hyms.ac.uk.