Research at the University of St Andrews is conducted across all subjects to make new discoveries and improvements, both within and without academia.
The research of Dr Ian Bradley, of the School of Divinity into the history of Christian pilgrimage and its recent revival, specifically in Scotland but also across Europe, has fed directly into the activities of…
The Dictionary of Scottish Architects, launched in 2006 by Emeritus Professor David Walker (School of Art History) and his team, is a fully searchable, free, online database, which has transformed how individuals…
‘Where have all the flowers gone?’ by American folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger is not just an arrestingly powerful protest song from the era of the Cold War and McCarthyism; it draws on a deep tradition…
Research by a team of scientists, including Dr Richard Bates of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, believe they have found the oldest hominin footprint surface outside of Africa, with an estimated date…
A report by Dr Ross Brown of the School of Management and researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Stirling shows that there is a mismatch between the nature of high-growth firms and the policies in both…
Dr Annette Carruthers of the School of Art History has compiled an authoritative book, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History (Yale University Press, 2013), the most detailed account to date of the arts…
A newly translated text, the “Treatise of the Vessels” (Massekhet Kelim, in Hebrew), claims to reveal where treasures from King Solomon’s temple were hidden and discusses the fate of the Ark of the Covenant itself.