Engaging new audiences through digital restoration
Collaborations between university academics and external institutions have brought locations that were thought lost back into view and engaged new audiences in the digital humanities.
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The St Andrews Think Tank Pioneering Climate Education
The Third Generation Project is the University’s first think tank, and one of the first in the world to focus on climate change education.
Community Museums: Stronger Together
EU-LAC Museums brings together community museums, who often serve a vital purpose in local development and community empowerment.
PHASE 1: University and secondary school research collaboration
In the summer of 2016, Maneesh Kuruvilla, a Postgraduate Researcher in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, won the St Andrews final of Three Minute Thesis and was awarded £500 to run a public engagement with…
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS: Museums and Community: Concepts, Experiences and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
Museums can provide vital services to their communities, providing under-represented people with a chance to stake a place in history, as well as contributing to sustainability, community empowerment and links between…
Communicating with people with advanced dementia
There are 850,000 individuals with a diagnosis of dementia in the UK, many of whom are likely to progress to a state of advanced dementia. Professional care places a considerable strain on NHS resources and the…
Philosophy education in schools
Coordinated by Dr Lisa Jones, under the auspices of a Philosophy-in-Schools Programme (POPS), philosophers from the Department of Philosophy have informed, supported, and developed the work of teachers of philosophy in…
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 continuing influence of a once-forgotten shipwreck
The important French text, the Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Eole by C.E. Boniface, originally published in Cape Town in 1829, lay forgotten in the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) until its discovery in…
GeoBus: Driving Earth science education in schools
Over 27,000 pupils have been involved in hands-on, experiential learning activities in 150 schools across Scotland since January 2012! GeoBus is an educational outreach project developed by the Department of Earth &…