News

  • Sustainable landscapes
    We were delighted to host Pete Cairns of Northwoods Rewilding, one of this year’s Prize for the Environment finalists, for round-table discussions of the potential for trans- and interdisciplinary research, on Friday 1 November 2024. We spent a very convivial…
  • Activism and environmental change: film screening and book launch with Adrian Fisk
    In keeping with our interests in finding creative ways to address sustainability issues, Dr Charlotte Lee is pleased to welcome photographer, author and film-maker Adrian Fisk to St Andrews this November. Adrian will be screening his recent documentary JUSTNORTH, which…
  • AI and Sustainability panel discussion
    Dr Louise Reid, co-director of StACCS, will be chairing a public panel discussion on the topic of “AI and Sustainability” on Wednesday this week. Following the recent widespread realisation that generative AI tools like ChatGPT have suddenly become so capable…
  • Water Resilient Dundee
    On Wednesday 13 November 2024 Dom McBennett and Emma Robson from Scottish Water, who are involved with the Water Resilient Dundee Partnership, will be visiting St Andrews to talk about their plans for more sustainable approaches to water management. The…
  • Sustainability Week events
    StACCS-facing colleagues are running several events as part of the University’s inaugural Sustainability Week, as part of our drive to promote and nurture critical sustainabilities research. Monday 28th October: Dr Lydia Cole is co-organising sustainability-themed tours of Eden Campus with Karen…
  • Reuben George event
    We’re pleased to be supporting a panel event with Reuben George, Mike Simpson, Jess Hope and Ariadne Collins to discuss Reuben and Mike’s new book ‘It Stops Here’. In the words of the publisher, the book is “a personal account…
  • StACCS/Wardlaw Museum project
    StACCS and the University’s Wardlaw Museum have begun a new collaboration on an exhibition and events programme in summer 2025, with the working title “Imagining Sustainable Futures: What Stories Do We Need?”. The recently-redeveloped Wardlaw Museum has become a focus…
  • A Sustainability Tour through Bonn
    Dr Sandra Gilgan, Head of Unit for the Bonn Research Alliance (BORA) & Co-Lead of the Working Group “Alternative Sustainabilities”, University of Bonn, shares her reflections on the partnership between St Andrews and Bonn. It was a sunny Tuesday morning…
  • St Andrews hosts colleagues from Bonn
    Pia von Falkenhausen from the Vice Rectorate for Sustainability at the University of Bonn writes about her recent visit to St Andrews as part of a delegation funded by the StACCS/SEEP project. As part of the Scottish Educational Exchange Program…
  • Networking event on sustainability and sustainable research practices
    If we as researchers want to contribute to building a more sustainable future, then we need to be able to share ideas and learn from colleagues around the globe. But, if travelling to conferences and meetings still usually means big…
  • Alternative sustainabilities at the University of Bonn
    Our first project under StACCS is an exchange programme funded by the Scottish Educational Exchange Programme (SEEP). I’ve just got back from a short but very stimulating visit to the University of Bonn together with my colleagues Joseph North from…
  • Hello and welcome to StACCS
    StACCS launched as a University Global Research Centre in January 2024. In this first blog post we set out why we developed StACCS, and some of the work we plan to do. There is a clear scientific consensus that many…

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