Understanding and Reducing Marine Life Damage
Through research into animal behaviour and communications with national governments and international organisations, SMRU has helped ensure human activity in the oceans takes marine life into account.
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 here and on the Research and Innovation Services Research impact: help and resources webpages. The latter also offers tips, advice, funding opportunities, and useful links from the Research Impact Team to help you engage with research impact.
Through research into animal behaviour and communications with national governments and international organisations, SMRU has helped ensure human activity in the oceans takes marine life into account.
Professor John Wilson is arguably one of the most influential scholars on credit unions, and the insights of his work have helped to ensure their longevity.
By crowdsourcing images of destroyed heritage, Professor Richard Bates offers a glimpse into a world as it used to be.
Research by Dr Marc De Vore sheds new light on the challenges democracies face in keeping up with the quickening march of military technological innovation.
Professor William Austin and Dr Craig Smeaton, of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development and the Scottish Oceans Institute, have been working with partners around the world to expand awareness of the role…
Dr Claudia Kreklau's research explores how climate change-induced famine shifted the diets of Central Europe in the early to mid-19th century, leading to political unrest in an already-changing society.
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…
'Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean' The University of St Andrews’ Wardlaw Museum recently announced Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean, its new exhibition, digital content and events programme highlights the wonders of the…
Few dispute the fact that smoking tobacco is linked to lung cancer and other health issues. It takes a few decades but eventually smoking will kill half of its habitual users, estimated globally to be 7.7 million…
Marine research from the University of St Andrews has been used in a range of industries, from the sonar activities of naval forces to the placement of wind turbines.