It’s raining MMMEN: My time as an intern on the Making Music for Managing El Niño project

Embedding impact-focussed work into early careers in research is an exciting way to extend positive academic culture and contribute to societal good. This blog was written by Millie McCallum, currently undertaking her MA (Hons) in Geography, who has joined academics in a new project. By involving and empowering our student community through generating impact, the … Read more

Mind and Matter 2024

Inspiring | Creating | Engaging Join us and explore our research! With exhibits and shows from across disciplines, we invite you to be inspired, creative and engage with our research community…

Engagement with Research

For research to create impact, it must permeate beyond its generators. There is a diversity of audiences for research, as well as different forms of communicating research to those audiences. The central vector for communicating research to audiences beyond academia is engagement. To maximise on the strength of engagement, it is crucial to understand the … Read more

Interdisciplinary Impact Incubators: The Beginning

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

An Undoing: feminist plays for the modern age

Miss Julie, Clytemnestra, Lady Macbeth – iconic women in theatre that have become larger-than-life representations of wildness, evil, and ruthless ambition. But do the stories that have been told about them reflect who they really are? Zinnie Harris – playwright, director, Associate Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, and Professor in the School … Read more