Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, physical geographer, and co-director of StACCS
Our exhibition ‘Rewrite the Future’ last summer has featured as a case study in Museums Journal, the house journal of the Museums Association. The article, co-written by the Wardlaw Museum’s Head of Experience and…
As part of the StACCS/Wardlaw Museum exhibition Rewrite the Future, StACCS Co-Director Louise Reid and a panel of elected representatives at local and national level will be discussing what kind of future they would…
We are pleased to announce a call for project proposals related to sustainability research, to be led by members of academic staff at St Andrews. We are looking for projects of anywhere between a few hundred pounds and…
Many of us at StACCS have been busy over the past nine months working with a team from the University’s Wardlaw Museum to put together an exhibition showcasing a range of sustainability-facing research at St Andrews.…
It was a pleasure to host the first of what we hope will be many Spring Schools, working with early career researchers to explore how we can undertake transformative sustainability research in line with our values. The…
The title of our centre, ‘Critical Sustainabilities’, signals that one of our key aims is to hold the very concept of sustainability up to a critical light. The risk that thinking around sustainability could be watered…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…