STACEES was the St Andrews Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability, a vibrant and diverse community of researchers based at the University of St Andrews. STACEES operated from April 2021 to 31 October 2024 and the events and networking opportunities offered over these 3.5 years resulted in enhanced collaboration on sustainability-related research within the University and across disciplines.
Despite the network no longer being active, the resources on this website may still be informative and useful. For example, we recommend taking some time to review the Sustainability Series, the image gallery, the travel blogs and recordings of past events.
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Travel blog: Interrail & Post-Growth-inspired Research Trips
By Anne Sophie Daffertshofer (PhD Candidate, School of Art History, University of St Andrews). Published on: 14 September 2023. More than 50 years ago, the Club of Rome called for a limit to economic growth. The vision of limitless growth, they argued, ignored the reality of living on a planet with finite resources. Since then, our…
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UKRI Environmental Sustainability Concordat discussion session
8 September, 9:30 – 10:30. STACEES and Prof Tom Brown (Vice-Principal Research, Collections and Innovation) will host a 1-hour discussion session about the UKRI’s draft Concordat for Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice. Your valuable feedback will help to shape the University’s institutional response to this important draft document. The concordat “aims to gain agreement from all organisations…
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Summary of STACEES Travel Event Series
From March to May 2023, STACEES hosted an event series ‘Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE’. This four-part event series explored three key strands of travel through hybrid delivery talks delivered by a range of invited speakers, plus a chaired open discussion. The events were open to all staff, students and…
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STACEES-led scoping report for the St Andrews Executive Programme for Sustainability
In 2023 the STACEES team worked on a scoping project aimed at understanding the offerings at the University of St Andrews in terms of sustainability-focussed training across disciplines and to gauge interest in the development of a research-led digital professional training programme specifically relating to sustainability topics in which St Andrews has established expertise. The report summarising…
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Sustainability Events Bulletin – 30 May 2023
Welcome to the third and last May edition of the Sustainability Events Bulletin. This will be the last bulletin of the semester and we hope you have found them useful. We hope to resume the fortnightly bulletins at the start of the next academic year. The STACEES team would like to thank Lauren Sykes (Communications…