Applications are invited to take part in a four-day in-person workshop or ‘spring school’ in St Andrews on 12-15 May 2025, on the theme “Critical Sustainability Research: Careful, Participatory, and Emancipatory Research Methods”. We are very excited to be running…
We were pleased to welcome colleagues Prof Robin Pakeman and Dr Stuart Smith from the James Hutton Institute for a focused workshop at the Botanic Gardens to discuss the science and logistics of long-term experiments and monitoring. JHI has a…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is omnipresent. Not a day goes by without AI being in the news, whether it’s the success story of a new public health initiative or optimisation of energy grids, deep concerns about dataveillance and digital inequalities, or…
‘How do we support people to be more sustainable?’ was a question I heard raised many times over the past week. That’s because it was the University’s inaugural Sustainability Week, a week full of activities from panel discussions, keynote speakers,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Applications are invited to take part in a four-day in-person workshop or ‘spring school’ in St Andrews on 12-15 May 2025, on the theme “Critical Sustainability Research: Careful, Participatory, and Emancipatory Research Methods”. We are very excited to be running…
We were pleased to welcome colleagues Prof Robin Pakeman and Dr Stuart Smith from the James Hutton Institute for a focused workshop at the Botanic Gardens to discuss the science and logistics of long-term experiments and monitoring. JHI has a…
‘How do we support people to be more sustainable?’ was a question I heard raised many times over the past week. That’s because it was the University’s inaugural Sustainability Week, a week full of activities from panel discussions, keynote speakers,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…