St Aidan's College SCR

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, 10th of November for our weekly Movie night.

Join us TONIGHT!

AGM is TOMORROW! 🤩

Calling all Aidan’s postgraduate students! Join our AGM in Lindisfarne Centre next Thursday to have your say in the upcoming plans for your Senior Common Room! It will be a good opportunity to socialise with other postgraduate students and learn about the many enjoyable features of the SCR. The AGM is open to all of our PG students, livers-in and livers-out. There will be free pizza too! Don’t miss this opportunity!

Scan the QR Code to sign up for free pizza! Or click this link to sign up alternatively: https://forms.office.com/r/zEgRLrALFC

Location: Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan's College
Time: 3 Nov 17:30-19:30

AGM is TOMORROW! 🤩

Calling all Aidan’s postgraduate students! Join our AGM in Lindisfarne Centre next Thursday to have your say in the upcoming plans for your Senior Common Room! It will be a good opportunity to socialise with other postgraduate students and learn about the many enjoyable features of the SCR. The AGM is open to all of our PG students, livers-in and livers-out. There will be free pizza too! Don’t miss this opportunity!

Scan the QR Code to sign up for free pizza! Or click this link to sign up alternatively: https://forms.office.com/r/zEgRLrALFC

Location: Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan's College
Time: 3 Nov 17:30-19:30

SCR Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Thursday 3 Nov 2022
5.30-7.30 pm
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
Calling all Aidan’s postgraduate students! Join our AGM in Lindisfarne Centre next Thursday to have your say in the upcoming plans for your Senior Common Room! It will be a good opportunity to socialise with other postgraduate students and learn about the many enjoyable features of the SCR. The AGM is open to all of our PG students, livers-in and livers-out. There will be free pizza too! Don’t miss this opportunity!
SCR AGM

Come join us tomorrow at Aidan's for the arts workshop...no prior experience required. All materials will be provided! Suzanne is a great facilitator...

https://durhambookfestival.com/programme/

Programme - Durham Book Festival

Join us in college for postgraduate photos from 10 am. We will also be gathering in college from 1pm to walk down to Durham Cathedral for our Matriculation ceremony at 2 pm. See you soon.👏

Join our St Aidan’s college Senior Common Room (SCR)
Our SCR is unique among the Durham Colleges as it is made up of postgraduate students, College and Academic staff, College Fellows - including Visiting Fellows - and members of our regional and global communities, something of which we are immensely proud. This is a brief guide to help new members to settle into St Aidan’s and Durham life. It will give you an overview of our vibrant community and provide a few suggestions for enjoying this beautiful historical city, whether you’re with us for one term on an Erasmus exchange, a one year Masters degree, PhD, Postdoc or Fellow.
The SCR is for you. It represents you at College and University level, much of this behind the scenes. For postgraduates, the SCR Executive is elected to represent your voices and interests in key meetings. The SCR Exec also offers a range of opportunities to meet others, make friends and network, by running members’ nights, informal gatherings, dinners, events open to the rest of College (and to which you can invite guests from outside college), and maintaining the dedicated SCR space.
The SCR needs you. Get involved, gain experience in organising events – or use your previous experience to dazzle us all - suggest new events and activities, be creative and build community. It costs just £15 a year to join.
To sign up click here: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/optional-college-payments/st-aidans-scr-single-membership

Welcome to St Aidan’s College : for all new postgraduates joining us in 2022-23

Welcome to Durham and the glorious vistas of our college on the hill. Whether you’re just starting out with us or returning to your home from home, Welcome and Orientation Week (WOW) is all about settling in and getting to know our wonderful college community, as the new academic year begins. We are proud to be part of beautiful Durham city and the region of historic Northumberland, whose people and stories you will come to know.
Friendship and the company of people from all over the world lie at the heart of your University experience and will create the memories you will take away with you and lifelong connections. In the coming days you’ll get to know those who live in your house or corridor and the wider network of people who make up our rainbow community. If you are living out please join in the activities, so you are part of everything. Have a look below at the itinerary and come to see college staff if you have any questions. We have some wider university activities for you to join in with as well as college events.
We really look forward to getting to know you over the coming year and hope you will find this to be some of the happiest and most interesting times of your life. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions, comments, or just want to say, ‘hello!’

Postgraduates' Welcome Itinerary 2022

Wednesday 21st of September
 PG Students Welcome Tea & Coffee
3:00-4:00pm, St Aidan’s JCR
 Meals Start Today from dinner (5.30-7pm)

Thursday 22nd of September
 PG Students Welcome Tea & Coffee
3:00-4:00pm, St Aidan’s JCR
Friday 23rd of September
 ID Verification
10-11 College Library
 PG Welcome Talk
11:00-12:00 at the Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
 Information Fair for International students
1.30-3 pm at the Calman Centre, Science Site

 PG Students Welcome Tea & Coffee
3:00-4:00pm, St Aidan’s JCR

Monday 26thSeptember
 PG Welcome Talk
11:00-12:00 at the Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College

Thursday 29th of September
 Matriculation Photo
11 am in College garden
(Important: Please arrive on time for this. Dress Code: Formal/Smart)
 Matriculation ceremony at Durham Cathedral
2 pm at Cathedral– depart from the St Aidan’s College at 1.30
Thursday 29th of September
 First Postgraduate Formal Dinner
7 pm , dining hall, St Aidan’s College
Thursday 6th of October
 SCR Pizza and Movie Night
7pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College

Wednesday 3rd of November
 SCR General Meeting, Tea & Coffee
7 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College

Any questions? Email: [email protected]

Menu for the SCR Jazz Formal on the 5th May🎷

We would like to invite you to come along to our Jazz Night🎷🎹
Join us for a Drinks Reception, 2 course meal and an abundance of live music throughout the evening.
There will also be a photobooth so dress to impress 🤩
The event will be on Thursday 5th May 2022 in the Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College.
Limited tickets so sign up quickly to avoid disappointment!!!
Sign up here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1907

Sign up here✨https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1879
Feel free to message/comment with any questions

We would love for you to join us for the SCR meeting next week! We will be giving a report on what has been going on and our plans for the rest of the year!

We will also have a pizza and movie night following the meeting so please do join us. Sign up by following this link🍕 https://forms.office.com/r/YTjkyYRAvm

There will be a poll on our Instagram page to help choose a movie: https://www.instagram.com/staidans_scr/
Follow the link to vote 📽

If you have any items you would like to bring to the meeting or questions, then please contact the SCR Chair [email protected] .

We look forward to seeing you next week☺🌈

to everyone who attended our Annual General Meeting Yesterday Evening. We were so happy to see you all in person and virtually. Stay Tuned for more info coming soon about our new SCR Exec Team.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Get Involved: SCR AGM

One of the many reasons to get involved in St Aidan’s SCR is that staff, community members and postgraduate students work together, organising activities and working in collaboration with college staff. If you already have experience of this, you can use that to help mentor others and develop the SCR further. The SCR Executive Committee is responsible for running the SCR, providing our unique range of members with social events, engaging academic lectures and above all else, a space (both physical and virtual) where everyone can come together. Small events can be as delightful as larger ones, so we include café crawls, board game nights, film nights, book clubs, cultural tours of Newcastle….. And you will be welcome to sign up for College trips in the Spring and Summer to concerts at the Sage, regional theatres, Auckland Castle, the Bowes Museum, York and Edinburgh.

There are some key SCR Executive positions: the details can be found in the document attached. *One of these, the President, is open only to Postgraduate Students*, because the SCR President will represent our postgraduate students on college forums and wider University forums. The other positions are open to any SCR member and give you the chance to deploy a range of experience and skills, such as team leadership, event management, financial oversight, IT work and creative communications. While enjoying yourself and making new friends….
The Executive team meets at least once a term, in a space provided in college, but those meetings can be on zoom if necessary. The Exec can meet more often if it chooses, or subgroups (eg Social Sub-Committee) may meet separately to plan events.

So come along to our AGM (Annual General Meeting), on Tuesday, 23rd of November, at 7.15 pm in the Lindisfarne Centre, with free pizza🍕, we’ll be electing people into these executive committee roles. Even if you don’t want to run for any position, it would be lovely to see you there and listen to your ideas about activities in and out of college. We will make it a hybrid event to include anyone who can’t make it to college, but hope many of you can be here in person.

As the outgoing exec has already stepped down, we will temporarily suspend part of the standing orders for the AGM, so that the Principal can chair ex officio, with another staff member acting ex officio as secretary to take minutes for the meeting.
Please sign up if you intend to attend in person or online.

The SCR has 7 open positions. Please get in touch if interested.

President
Chair
Administrator
The social chair
Social Media officer
Welfare Officer
Bar Rep

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Update!!! Please read! See you tomorrow 🌟👌👍🦄

First Gen Scholars Event is tomorrow night!

Don't forget to have a negative LFT ❤️

St Aidan's College SCR updated their business hours.