A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The nationwide search for academics with the capacity to turn their academic material into fascinating broadcasts resulted in over 1,000 applicants applying.
The applicants were eventually reduced to just ten over a six month selection process by a judging panel of Radio 3 producers and AHRC academics.
57 finalists took part in day-long workshops at the BBC to learn how to transform scholarly research into an interesting radio programme.
Norridge’s research interest has been the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, about which she says she is "looking forward to talking about the ways in which it is memorialised with a wider audience".
She will now work closely with the production team of Radio 3’s programme Night Waves, and will be given the opportunity to appear on air in special New Generation Thinkers debates and sessions.
Norridge said that she has "enjoyed meeting inspirational colleagues from across the UK", and added that "it’s a great honour to be one of the final New Generation Thinkers".
The scheme was launched in November 2010 at Radio 3’s Free Thinking festival of ideas, and was aimed at academics who were passionate about sharing their scholarship with a wider audience.
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