Protecting our Ocean’s future
Public need for better methods to monitor, manage and protect international marine assets has motivated sonar methodologies research by Dr Richard Bates, of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and…
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Research at the University of St Andrews is conducted across all subjects to make new discoveries and improvements, both within and without academia.
The Fair Intellectual Club
Research by the School of English’s Professor Robert Crawford into the first of the great city rivalries of the English-speaking world – that of Edinburgh and Glasgow – has inspired a play by the comedian Lucy Porter.
The first common market
Long before we had mountains of grain and vast lakes of wine accumulating to excess across the continent our ancestors had worked out that the best entrepreneurial way to stay ahead was through trade with as wide a…
Setting Penalties for Competition Policy
Most countries have competition authorities that enforce competition policy by identifying, stopping and penalising what are regarded as anti-competitive practices.
Psychological intervention to alleviate heightened fears of recurrence of cancer patients
Fear of recurrence is a major concern for many cancer patients, as highlighted in a major review by Professor Gerald Humphris and Dr Gozde Ozakinci of the School of Medicine.
English poetry goes digital
The study of Medieval and Renaissance English poetry conjures up images of quiet libraries and beautiful volumes, but researchers in the School of English are endeavouring to change this image.
Porous material use in the delivery of biologically active gases
Nitric oxide (NO) is an extremely toxic gas at high levels which is extremely beneficial for healthcare at the right doses.
Fostering Local Film Heritage
The historical research of Dr David Martin-Jones, Dr Tom Rice and Dr Joshua Yumibe as part of Cinema and Cultural Studies (Department of Film Studies), as exemplified by Dr Martin-Jones book, “Scotland: Global Cinema”…
The Southern CO2 that helped end the ice age
Scientists have long puzzled over the processes that caused CO2 to rise and help end the last ice age. Leading theories have involved increased CO2 release from the deep ocean around Antarctica, but there has been no…
New research uses bioluminescent jellyfish as optical engineers
Researchers at St Andrews have produced the world’s first solid-state protein lasers, capable of record performance and some capable of self-assembly, by harnessing the optical engineering skills of bioluminescent…