Travel blog

By Lydia Cole (Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development) and Nora Booth (Student, Geography and International Relations). Published on: 9 October 2024. In Semester 2 of 2024, the then third year International Relations and Geography student, Nora Booth, took a deep dive into sustainable travel approaches across the UK’s universities. The project idea was … Read more

By Shona Russell Senior Lecturer, Department of Management (Business School). Published on: 26 September 2024. She stands.Waiting. Backpack onPassport in hand She remembers…The email.The invitation. — Give a talk?International audience Present.Learn.Connect. A little glow.Accepted.Part of the community. Her mentor says“Go for it”Demonstrate peer esteem.Build networks.Essential for career. All possible.All positive. Or is it? — What … Read more

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

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