Blog

  • Announcing the WRoCAH Conference 2019

    Hello everyone! This is a reminder that the Annual WRoCAH Conference 2019 will be taking place at the De Grey Rooms in York on 17th October 2019. This one-day event will bring together new and continuing WRoCAH students to discover the vast range of research that goes on at WRoCAH. Throughout the day you’ll have…

  • UKRI Policy Internship with the Youth and Social Action Team, by Jacob Downs

    Another successful Researcher Employability Project features in this week’s blog, as Jacob Downs shares his experiences of working in Whitehall.

  • The ‘Switch off and Connect’ PhD Retreat, by Marc Yeats

    In May of this year, Marc Yeats and a small group of fellow PhD students took time out of their busy lives to take part in the ‘Switch Off and Connect’ retreat in the isolated Lake District. In this feature-length post, Marc reflects on this unique and beneficial experience.

  • Grappling with Voice Science and Spectrographs in Downtown LA, by Catherine Fahy

    In December of last year, Catherine Fahy completed her Researcher Employability Project with voicescienceworks.org in Los Angeles. In this post, she reflects on the work she undertook and the valuable experience she gained from the project.

  • A photograph of the senior staff signing the Memorandum of Understanding at Utrecht University

    WRoCAH and Utrecht University, by Professor Julian Richards

    On 11 March 2019 WRoCAH and the three White Rose universities signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The MoU is wide-ranging but aims to enhance collaboration between the four universities through PhD training and support. Specific provisions include: making WRoCAH training courses available to Utrecht PhD researchers on a reciprocal…