2022

• New research to understand the experiences of special educational needs (SEN) pupils in York

  

  Researchers at York St John University have been granted £50,427 by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust to investigate transitions from primary to secondary school for pupils with special educational needs (SEN) across the city of York.

  Publish Date: 
  • 9 May 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Research

• York St John opens new start-up centre to offer free help for businesses to innovate and grow

  

  Partnership with York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub will support local independent enterprise. 

  Publish Date: 
  • 3 May 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Business
  •    Campus & Estates
  •    Community

• York St John students takeover York Theatre Royal for week-long arts festival

  

  Takeover 2022 is a week-long arts festival at York Theatre Royal organised and run entirely by York St John students.

  Publish Date: 
  • 3 May 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Events
  •    Students

• Student-led symposium brings business leaders together to explore responses to Covid-19

  

  Students from York St John University’s Business School and Queen Mary University of London led a symposium which brought business leaders and aspiring entrepreneurs together.

  Publish Date: 
  • 29 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Business
  •    Students

• City-wide celebration to thank pandemic’s mental health professionals

  

  York St John University joins together with York's Civic Party and York College to celebrate the contribution of the mental health professionals during the pandemic

  Publish Date: 
  • 27 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Community
  •    Events

• Eye-opening research led by York St John University academic finds UK ‘protected areas’ are failing to safeguard nature.

  

  Geography lecturer Dr Joseph Bailey leads an impactful report published today by the British Ecological Society (The BES) that challenges current UK actions to protect wildlife.

  Publish Date: 
  • 22 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Research

• York St John University shortlisted for University of the Year

  

  York St John University has been shortlisted in the University of the Year category in this year’s Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCA), the leading higher education awards ceremony based solely on student choice.  

  Publish Date: 
  • 20 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Awards

• Royal Television Society winning film for York St John University student

  

  Animation student Jack Thompson won the Craft Skills Award in Animation, presented as part of the Yorkshire Student Awards by the Royal Television Society.

  Publish Date: 
  • 13 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Awards
  •    Students

• York St John University students welcome art lovers to open studio event

  

  York Open Studios annual event showcases the city’s artists and creators by welcoming the public into studios and workshops.

  Publish Date: 
  • 7 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Community
  •    Events
  •    Students

• Exercise shown to release protein reducing bowel cancer risk  

  

  Experts have identified for the first time exactly how exercise can lower your risk of getting bowel cancer and slow the growth of tumours.

  Publish Date: 
  • 7 April 2022
  Categories: 
  •   Research