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.
The project Woven Communities, led by Dr Stephanie Bunn of the Department of Social Anthropology, has expanded awareness of Scottish social history and heritage through a focus on its basket-weaving, while showing how…
Maré from the Inside / Maré de Dentro is an interactive visual and textual exhibit developed through the collaboration of Brazilian and Global North-based artists, activists, and academics, including Dr Nicholas Barnes…
Women fighting for change Dr Sarah Marsden, from the School of International Relations, and colleagues from Lancaster University, engage with activists, academics, artists, heritage, and community organisations to…
The scale and costs of illegal fishing are enormous and difficult to calculate. Recently, the Nigerian House of Representatives expressed concerns over the $70 million lost annually to illegal fishing. In comparison,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…