Gradstock is our annual summer festival with daytime entertainment for all (including student & staff families), an evening of live music and DJs and an after party in town for those with the stamina!
This year we want your input intop the event – so please take a few minutes to fill in our survey CLICK HERE
How to get in touch:
Visit our website – CLICK HERE (will be up and running soon)
Email us – CLICK HERE
PGSA facebook page – CLICK HERE
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This is the Postgraduate students’ opportunity to provide feedback on their courses through the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey. In order to take part, look out for an email inviting you to complete the survey which will be arriving in your Lancaster inbox soon. This is a great opportunity for you to give confidential, anonymous feedback on your course, Lancaster University and also LUSU.
Last year over 650 students took part. This year we want even more!
If you want to know more, go to the PTES website
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The Luminary is the online post-graduate journal, based within Lancaster University’s Department of English and Creative Writing. Our aim is to provide a forum through which post-graduates, from any institution, can share their current research, make connections with other researchers and gain publications. Although this journal is linked to the Department of English and Creative Writing, we aren’t limited to publishing papers within those disciplines. We welcome submissions from language studies, linguistics, cultural studies, film studies, sociology, humanities subjects, the arts, and inter-disciplinary research students among others. Each semester we look for submissions based on a new theme, and aim to publish a wide variety of papers on a diverse range topics, texts and theoretical perspectives.
New Call for Papers: Occupy, Revolution, Social Change
Deadline for submissions – 23rd March, 2012
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
- Fredric Jameson, ‘Future City’
Apathy is so last generation.
- Placard at a student protest, 2010
Inspired by the recent wave of anti-austerity protest in Europe, the consequences of the ‘Arab Spring’ and the international Occupy movement, Lancaster University’s online postgraduate journal, The Luminary, is inviting postgraduates to submit papers which explore culture in relation to occupation, revolution and social change. Papers may discuss culture and protest in the current socio-political climate, or explore the long-standing relationship between culture and literature and traditions of rebellion and dissent.
Papers may be submitted from any academic discipline and suggested content areas include but are not limited to:
• The Occupy movement
• Writers of the revolution
• Dominant cultures, countercultures, subcultures
• Cultural rebellion, cultural revolution
• The end of art? Is the avant-garde dead?
• Co-option, recuperation, and the spectacle of dissent
• New media and mediated rebellion (or, Will the Revolution be Televised?)
• Alternative traditions, alternative histories
• Utopia and/ or dystopia
• Academia and its social function
The Luminary is accepting two types of submission: Comment (1,000-2,000 words) and Analysis (5,000-8,000 words). Abstracts (250-300 words) and a short bio should accompany your submission to editor@lancasterluminary.com. For more information on submission, please visit our submissions pages.
The deadline for submission is 23 March, 2012.
Please visit our website at: www.lancasterluminary.com
Note – the website is due to relocate very soon. For now, we’d ask you use our ‘editor@lancasterluminary.com’ email address for all enquiries and submissions, as the new email address advertised on the site will not yet be active.
Many thanks!
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Read about what we have done with your feedback from the NSS – CLICK HERE
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Provisional dates and destinations for this term’s day trips (to be confirmed)
Saturday 3rd March – Roman Special (Carlisle & Hexham) – email for availability (no promises but there may have been some cancellations)
Saturday 17th March - Brontë Country (Hebden Bridge, Haworth & Bolton Abbey)
Saturday 31st March – Ullswater & Keswick (including boat trip)
Saturday 14th April – Chester & Mold
Tickets for all trip go on sale ONLINE around 2 weeks prior to the date of the trip. Contact Jane or check out the Day Trips page for more information.
Visit the University’s Vacation Website – CLICK HERE
Read Davey’s ‘Things to do Over Christmas’ page – CLICK HERE
16th December - ‘The Usuals’ Live in Gradbar from 9pm
18th December - Trip to Greenlands Farm Village & Kendal £5 adults, £2.50 children - More Info & Buy Tickets
20th December - Children’s Christmas Party (Please confirm number of children attending ASAP – email Jane)
20th December – Film Night for postgraduates in Fylde Bar
24th December - Christmas Eve Party at the Dalton Rooms in Lancaster
25th December - Christmas Day – Bring food to share in the Common Room from midday – the College will supply some sweet mince pies too!
28th December - Trip to The Trafford Centre £8 adults, £4 children - More Info & Buy Tickets
28th December – Karaoke Night for postgraduates in Fylde Bar
31st December New Year’s Eve Party in Lonsdale Bar followed by New Year’s Eve After Party at the Dalton Rooms in Lancaster
5th January – Film Night for postgraduates in Fylde Bar
6th January – Gradbar re-opens
For more information email: j.hulland@lancaster.ac.uk
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Not using the Lancaster University Mobile App yet? If you’ve not downloaded iLancaster onto your Android or iPhone/iPad, you’re missing out on some great features which will give you University services, resources and information at your fingertips. These include:
• Bus timetable – locate the nearest bus stop, and see when the next one is due
• OneSearch – Search for Library resources of all types
• PC Availability – find the nearest available open access PCs around campus
• Timetable – see your personal course timetable
• Library – check the status of your University Library account
• Locations – find rooms, buildings and other locations on a campus map… …plus much more!
You can find out more about iLancaster, and link to the Android Market or App Store to download the app at: http://ilancasterinfo.lancs.ac.uk (ISS apologise for the incorrect link sent out in the email)
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These are the trips the College and PGSA are running over the Michaelmas Term 2011.
Tickets generally go on sale two weeks prior to the date of the trip and are available to buy ONLINE throught the University online store.
Saturday 15th October – Cheshire Oaks (designer outlet) and Chester City
Saturday 29th October – Whitby (North Yorkshire coast)
Saturday 12th November – Newcastle & Metrocentre
Saturday 26th November – York & Designer Outlet
Sunday 11th December - Skipton (Xmas Fair) and Harrogate
Sunday 18th December – Greenlands Farm & Kendal
Wednesday 28th December – The Trafford Centre
LUSU Education & Support Unit staff will be available on Thursday afternoons from 1 – 3pm in the College Principal’s office (opposite the residence office) in Graduate College. Any Postgraduates with general or specific questions are welcome to drop in. For further information contact lusuadvice@lancaster.ac.uk or phone 01524 593765
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A Big Welcome to all our new and continuing students.
You’ll find lots of information on this site about the College, it’s facilities and the people who work here.
Throughout the year we will also use this site to keep you informed about events happening around the College and University, job opportunities and lots of other things we hope you might find interesting and useful.
Please check out the ‘New/Incoming Student’ information pages for details about events during Intro Week and beyond.
We look forward to meeting you!
LUGrad Staff
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