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By Rachel Drake and Louis Backstrom (PhD candidates, School of Mathematics and Statistics). Published on: 2 September 2024. So, you’ve decided to embark on a sustainable and thrilling trip through Europe by train. Often, an Interrail ticket is the cheapest way to do this. But how do you go about actually booking the trains you need … Read more
We hope to see many of you at the first St Andrews Sustainability Summit, which is being held in Upper and Lower College Hall on Friday 13th September 2024, 14:00-17:30 (end of Fresher’s week). More information about the STACEES stall will follow soon! Don’t buy in eco doom and gloom; there is a lot to do … Read more
Around 100 staff and students came together at the University of St Andrews for the inaugural St Andrews Climate Week from 27-30 May 2024, with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary research and impact addressing the climate crisis. Below is a summary of the week’s events. The flagship St Andrews Climate Conference featured a series of presentations … Read more
The University has launched its Annual Sustainability Report for the year 2022-2023, which aligns with all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). This framework demonstrates the institution’s dedication to a comprehensive and deliberate approach to sustainability across research, teaching, and operations. The Introduction to the report by Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and … Read more
The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative, featuring: All events are fully catered and free to attend. More information on each event is provided below. While the Climate … Read more
By Elsje van Kessel (Senior Lecturer, School of Art History). Published on: 30 January 2024. ‘Experience is Better than Knowledge’ – or so claims scholar of English literature and ‘blue humanities’ proponent Steve Mentz in a provocative article title borrowed from an early modern maritime manual. Human experiences of the sea, Mentz argues, can productively … Read more
Climate change and environmental sustainability are some of the most critical challenges facing our planet. Across the disciplinary breadth of the University of St Andrews, our researchers are addressing key questions on some of the most pressing issues of our generation. From energy ethics, climate justice and sustainable development to marine ecosystems, biodiversity tracking and … Read more
By Lydia Cole (Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development). Published on: 26 October 2023. In late July of 2023, I left St Andrews, bound for Greifswald. This small, University town — quite similar to St Andrews, but significantly bigger — is on the shores of the Baltic Sea, in Northeast Germany. It is home … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more