For a week in each of February and March Dr Claire Cousins visited Mars analogue sites in Orkney and Iceland with Glasgow-based contemporary artist Ilana Halperin and Art Historian Dr Catriona McAra (Univ. Aberdeen) for a Knowledge Exchange project lying at the art-science interface called ‘From Extraterrestrial to Cultural Landscapes’. For this project the team … Read more
Coming to the Byre Theatre in October 2024 is an art exhibition entitled ‘Palimpself’, exploring the relationship between language, memory, and materiality in the work of Nobel prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux. The exhibition will feature artwork by sculptor and academic Susan Diab, and will coincide with the first English-speaking conference on Ernaux’s works – … Read more
The stories we tell shape the world around us. How narratives throughout time have shaped war and conflict are central ideas of Visualising War and Peace research projects by Dr Alice König of the School of Classics. Founded in 2018, based on König’s research on ancient military treatises and intertextuality, its early work focused on … Read more
The Research Impact team are delivering interdisciplinary impact “incubator” sessions, designed to bring colleagues together around a theme and discuss their impact journeys. This piece reflects on the first two sessions, which are held in addition to the School-based sessions supported by the team. “Ever to Excel”, the St Andrews motto, derives from the sixth … Read more
Dr Mattia Fumanti, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, has built his academic career by forming and sustaining long lasting research relationships in the field. Rooted in his research into post-apartheid political transformations, these have evolved over time into sustained partnerships with people, most notably in Namibia. Building on over twenty years’ ethnographic … Read more
