The Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) has been shaping how we use research to inform and change policy and practice since 2001. Housed within the Department of Management and led by Dr Vicky Ward, RURU aims…
Professor Emma Sutton of the School of English has researched the relationships between literature and music for more than twenty-five years. Her work explores the role music plays in literary representations of…
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…
BBC News joined Dina on a visit to Craigmount High School in Edinburgh, which was given free copies of The Waiting Place as part of a campaign by the University of St Andrews.
In The Waiting Place, Dina Nayeri offers a reminder of the humanity found in refugee camps across Europe and the wider world.
This comprehensive, open access resource maps nearly 1700 Civil War monuments across the US and beyond.
By recording the musical knowledge found across Samoa’s islands, researchers hope to celebrate the heritage they find while retaining its diversity.
While theatre is full to bursting with ‘everyman’ roles, the ‘everywoman’ has been notable mostly by her absence. In the School of English, Professor Zinnie Harris addresses these fatal flaws in theatrical tradition by…
Professor Emma Sutton reveals the full significance of Virginia Woolf's declaration that ‘I always think of my books as music before I write them’.
Wolves are returning to their former ranges across Europe and North America, resurrecting a centuries’ old war with humans. Yet wolves are losing this battle, because in our arsenal we possess not only guns, traps, and…