Start Date: 27 April 2023 10:00 am
End Date: 27 April 2023 11:00 am
Location: Online
Join our Student Money Advisor, Carl, to make sure you have everything you need to open a bank account in the UK, with some helpful top tips on how to manage your money.
If you have any issues please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 26 April 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 26 April 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Online
Where to shop in the local area, where to buy international food and the best places to buy household items.
If you have any issues please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 26 April 2023 11:00 am
End Date: 26 April 2023 12:00 pm
Location: Online
New international students studying on a Student Visa must attend one of these sessions.
You will learn how to keep your visa valid, and about the different work and study restrictions.
The session will end with a Q&A.
If you have any issues please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 26 April 2023 10:00 am
End Date: 26 April 2023 11:00 am
Location: Online
Information on how to enrol at the University and how to collect your Biometric Residency Permit.
If you have any issues please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 6 April 2023 5:30 pm
End Date: 6 April 2023 6:30 pm
Location: Chapel, Exton Park
During the reflective time of Holy Week leading up to Easter Day, there will be a special Maundy Thursday service in the University Chapel at 5.30pm on Thursday 6 April.
All are welcome.
Start Date: 25 April 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 25 April 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Online
Guidance on how to use university software and systems, for your degree.
If you have any issues with the Teams link or need help, please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 25 April 2023 10:00 am
End Date: 25 April 2023 11:00 am
Location: Online
Detailed guidance on what you need to do before your arrival and tasks to be completed once you have arrived in the UK.
If you have any issues with the Teams link or need help, please email studentexperience@chester.ac.uk
Start Date: 4 April 2023 11:00 am
End Date: 4 April 2023 3:30 pm
Location: Community Garden, behind the Community Hub, Exton Park
Come and help dig a pond, build raised beds, plant bulbs or just enjoy the space. There are also gentle gardening options for those who just want to relax and enjoy the outdoors.
There will also be free drinks and snacks available!
Please note; there are two sessions available:
We know that lots of you are probably working on your assessments and assignments right now so we just wanted to quickly remind you to take a look at our guidance on using artificial intelligence (AI) for academic purposes.
You can read the full guidance here but the main points to remember are:
➡️ Treat all AI with caution
➡️ AI can not be relied upon to provide accurate references for the material it generates
➡️ You can use AI to help you to prepare for an assignment, eg generating an essay plan to help you think through your assignment
➡️ Remember that AI can only take your word prompts literally, so “a water bottle with a sports cap” will create a bottle wearing a hat
➡️ You can use AI-generated images as sources of inspiration to encourage divergent thinking in creative work.
If you use an artificial intelligence tool to help you with any of your assignments, you must always declare that you have done so and explain how you have used the tool. You should do this at the start of your assignment and outline the prompts given to the tool.
If you have generated content that is submitted as part of an assignment using text-generating AI such as ChatGPT, this should be quoted/cited and referenced in the usual way as a website in the referencing style outlined on your assignment brief. In place of the ‘webpage’, you should reference the prompt you have used to generate the content. For example:
ChatGPT (2023, March 8). Outline 5 facts about the burial site of Richard III. https://chat.openai.com/chat
Any AI images used in the development of creative work or included in documents should be referenced by citing what you did (the text prompt), the AI tool used to generate the image, and the date accessed.
If you’re unsure about how to declare use of AI in assessment, you should seek clarification from your module tutor(s) in the first instance or your Personal Academic Tutor (PAT).
Start Date: 16 May 2023 6:30 pm
End Date: 16 May 2023 7:30 pm
Location: Anna Sutton 017, Exton Park
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Melissa Fegan. This lecture will mark Melissa’s first public lecture since being appointed as Professor.
The Great Famine in Ireland (1845–1852) was one of the last major European subsistence crises, causing the deaths from starvation and disease of over one million people, the emigration of a million more, and a lasting demographic shift.
According to the census of 2022, the population of the island of Ireland has still not recovered to the levels of 1841. Margaret Kelleher has suggested that both historians and writers of fiction have struggled to approach the Famine and its aftermath without either ‘an excessive emphasis on victimisation’ (particularly due to British mismanagement of the relief effort in what was then part of the United Kingdom), or an uncritical assumption that ‘we are all descendants of survivors’ (ignoring the variety of experience, survival strategies, and their costs).
This lecture will consider the ways Irish literature, often drawing on folklore and historical accounts, has represented Famine survivors and the stratagems to which they were driven, including emigration, reliance on charity, stealing, sex-work, rioting, land-grabbing, abandoning family, friends or neighbours, religious conversion, murder and cannibalism. It will also reflect on the parallels drawn with other survivors, past and present.
Please email events@chester.ac.uk to book your place.
