Peru facing rural Covid-19 disaster
A disaster is looming in Peru caused by Covid-19 as thousands return to their rural homes where there are limited resources and facilities, according to research carried out at the University of St Andrews. When…
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Research at St Andrews often leads to changes or improvements in non-academic impact areas such as public debate and understanding, technology, culture, policy and laws, health and welfare, the economy, and the environment among others. Find out more about how some of our research has led to measurable impact.
Watching the Lava dome: Volcano monitoring radar handover to Montserrat
Dr David Macfarlane is a Senior Research Fellow who has been working on high resolution radar projects in the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews since 2002. Last year he travelled to the volcanic island of…
Cyclone disaster management: PhD internship diary
PhD Intern: Hebe Nicholson, School of Geography & Sustainable Development The KE & Impact PhD internship was a great opportunity for me to build on existing knowledge and contacts from my PhD research to produce a…
EPSRC IAA Impact Festival 2019
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Festival 2019 event was organised by five Scottish Universities, the Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde,…
What’s in a name? Evolving the Internet Architecture
In the School of Computer Science, Professor Saleem Bhatti is working on a solution to enhance Internet Architecture with a new protocol called the Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP). A fundamental property of…
Coastal heritage at risk: PhD internship diary
In late 2018, the School of History needed a PhD intern to assist in the development of the evidence base for Scotland’s Dynamic Coast by integrating and analysing observed coastal erosion data of archaeological sites…
In defence of the wolf
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…
Virginia Woolf in Tehran
The novel, ‘Vanessa and Virginia’, by Susan Sellers, a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, has been translated into Farsi by Zahra Amini, a graduate of the University of Tehran where she studied…
Heritage Futures and Community Archaeology in Tanzania
The Kilwa Kisiwani site off the coast of Southern Tanzania was occupied from the 9th century and was one of the most powerful settlements along the Swahili Coast. From the 13th to the 16th century, much of the trade…
Lake Victoria research: Win-win for human health, food security and economic development
Fisheries ecologists from the University of St Andrews are working with human-health and fishery partners around Lake Victoria on connected, multidisciplinary projects to sustainably manage fish stocks, and to examine…