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Putting down roots to grow strong food network

In 2023, local sustainability group Transition University of St Andrews set up a gleaning network to redistribute unharvested vegetables from farmers’ fields to community and fridges in North East Fife, including the…

Students standing on a hill above the medical school, wearing red tee shirts, on the back of which each has a letter spelling Medicine

School of Medicine

The Medical School has developed an inter-varsity group of Scottish medical schools to form a network of sustainable medicine practice, working to develop the network of students and practitioners in the field through…

Golden Dandelion Awards

Now in their fourth year, the Golden Dandelion Awards are coordinated by the University’s Sustainability in the Curriculum Committee (SiTC), inviting submissions that demonstrate considerable contribution to Education…

Creating Impact through Enterprise Education

Associate Dean (Education) Arts & Divinity, Dr Gosia Mitka, with Kenneth Boyd and Dr Kirsty Ross in the School of Computer Science, launched a project helping students to identify issues they believed were important to…

Project scoops UN award

A project led by Senior Lecturer Dr Rehema White from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, and funded by The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, received a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE)…

Taking the win: St Andrews Fairtrade Awards 2022

Fairtrade supporters in St Andrews are celebrating – on three counts!  Two winners of 2022 Scottish Fair Trade Forum (SFTF) awards are Mary Popple and Hannah Bowey, both members of the St Andrews Fairtrade Town…

Women in Gaming

Business School Professor Shiona Chillas and PhD student Melinda Grewar are analysing results from an international survey of people working in the video games industry, focusing on diversity management activity in…

From landmines to Lightwater

Water quality problems currently affect nearly a billion people, and by 2050, water shortages are expected to affect more than 50% of the global population. The integrity of both water quality and delivery networks are…