Inaugural ‘Careful Research’ Spring School
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…
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What does ‘critical sustainability’ mean? A new StACCS project takes shape
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…
AI and Sustainability
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…
Sustainability Week: a recap
‘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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…