Clare Peddie honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
Vice-Principal (Education) and Proctor Professor Clare Peddie has been recognised for her exceptional leadership and lasting contribution to education and student experience at St Andrews.
Category: World-leading research
Dr Emma Louise Gale talks about the science of sleep
Most of us don’t get enough of it, even though we spend nearly a third of our lives doing it – and Dr Emma Louise Gale is determined to help us understand sleep better.
Building an entrepreneurial culture
Anna Brattström, Professor of Entrepreneurship in the University’s Business School, tells us how her role is shaping our approaches to education, research and engagement with the wider world.
Wilber’s work has global reach
This week, Research Spotlight talks to a leader in ongoing work around infectious diseases, how to prepare for them, track them and stop them. What is your name and what do you research? Wilber Sabiiti and I develop…
Why you should always trust a penguin
This week, Research Spotlight shines on trustworthy African penguins! What’s your name and what do you research? My name is Jacqui Glencross, and I’m a seabird ecologist. Earlier this year, I completed my PhD…
Shining a light on eclipse expeditions
This week, Research Spotlight is being ‘eclipsed’ by the history of mathematics as Dr Deborah Kent shines a light on her work. What’s your name and what do you research? My name is Deborah Kent. My research focuses on…
Crunching the numbers in nature
This week we take a look at what happens when the worlds of ecology and statistics collide, some pretty great things it turns out… What’s your name and what do you research? My name is Ali Johnston. I am passionate…
Fieldnotes from Amazonia
Research Spotlight talks to Dr Jessica Hope, Lecturer in Sustainable Development who is currently in the Western Amazonia region of Bolivia on three months of fieldwork research. What are you doing in Bolivia? This is…
Celebrating 30 years of USTC
Research Spotlight opens the book on one of the University’s longest running research projects, the Universal Short Title Catalogue, which celebrates its 30th birthday this year. What’s your name and what do you…
Professor Will Cresswell
“I am a Professor of Biology working in the Centre of Biological Diversity. I do a lot of teaching in the University – the most of anyone in Biology apparently – but it doesn’t seem that much. “It is a joy to engage…