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  1. Energy Cafe: Becoming Prosumers

    Energy Cafe: Becoming Prosumers

    Navigating the Electricity Sector through Italy's Largest Energy Community

    Hosted by Lorenzo Sapochetti Community-led initiatives are increasingly seen as an effective means to transform our energy systems, empowering citizens to drive...

  2. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  3. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  4. 3M Planet Final

    3M Planet Final

    Join us in Parliament Hall for the finals of the 3MPlanet competition. Each of our seven finalists has distilled their honours thesis on topics related to...

  5. Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art

    Join the School of Art History and Dr Stephanie O'Rourke for 'Painting in Steam: Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art'. Reception...

  6. It Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
    Limited access

    It Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People

    An evening with Indigenous Land Defender, Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) - Free

    Community Land Outer Hebrides and the University of St Andrews present an evening with Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh First Nation) Rueben is a prominent...

  7. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...

  8. It Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
    Limited access

    It Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People

    An afternoon with Indigenous Land Defender, Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) - Free

    ATLAS Arts, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, and the University of St Andrews present an afternoon with Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh First Nation). Rueben is a prominent...

  9. It Stops Here --- An evening with Indigenous Land Defender, Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)
    Limited access

    It Stops Here --- An evening with Indigenous Land Defender, Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)

    Free

    Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh First Nation) is a prominent Indigenous land defender and Sun Dance Chief who spent much of the last decade fighting the Trans...

  10. St Leonard's Lecture Series

    St Leonard's Lecture Series

    Following the success so far of the St Leonard's Lecture Series 2023-2024, St Leonard's College and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary...

  11. Where earth ends: plugging into nature

    Where earth ends: plugging into nature

    Interactive soundscaped walk

    Have you ever wondered what our gardens and green (and blue) spaces were like in the past, and what they might look like in the future? Join the Radical Urban...

  12. Where earth ends: plugging into nature

    Where earth ends: plugging into nature

    Interactive soundscaped walk

    Have you ever wondered what our gardens and green (and blue) spaces were like in the past, and what they might look like in the future? Join the Radical Urban...

  13. Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    As part of the Fife Climate Festival, this family-friendly (age 12+) workshop will explore climate justice and climate anxiety through different examples of...

  14. Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    The global energy transition and the future of African coastal states

    The urgency to address the impacts of climate change has reached a critical point. Although the global community acknowledges the imperative for a united...

  15. A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    This reading, hosted by the School of English and Centre for Energy Ethics, will showcase the creative writing submissions from selected undergraduate students...

  16. Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy efficiency and revolutionary ethics in the Cuban transition

    Dr Gustav Cederlöf School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba become one of Latin America's most...

  17. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Race, Place and Home

    In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more...

  18. Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Kay Dickinson

    Dr Kay Dickinson will introduce her upcoming book Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers (BFI, 2024). Why are big budget films typically made across...

  19. No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    Join us for a new book discussion with author Professor Dominic Boyer, on 12 February at 3pm (UK time) online. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story...

  20. Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    This cafe will be hosted by Silvia Pergetti. The work it takes to operate and maintain energy systems is essential yet often missing from public and scholarly...

  21. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Join the Centre for Energy Ethics for the next seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. This session will be dedicated to the story of the...

  22. Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Hosted by Gair Dunlop. Whether it's enormous offshore wind developments or the slow drawdown of nuclear facilities, community agency in relation to...

  23. Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow

    Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow

    Mapping Genocide - What numbers and location can, and cannot, tell us about the Holocaust

    In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the...

  24. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Electricity, like air, is something we notice when it disappears. In 2022 Ukrainians faced an acute energy deficiency, in everyday life, at work, and public...

  25. Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...

  26. National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    The University of St Andrews has developed a partnership with the National Taiwan University (NTU). This institutional link, which was supported by the School...

  27. Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Public Lecture by Professor Sarah Elwood, 23/24 Senior Global Fellow

    About In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as techno capitalist development processes and the platformization of...

  28. PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    Navigating the labyrinth

    In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened --- moving from linear views of an evidence use...

  29. PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    Converting proposals to new clean power

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce the return of its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited...

  30. Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Our twice monthly Energy Café series will begin on Tuesday January 23rd with a presentation from Sean Field In this Café, Sean will discuss how natural gas...

  31. Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Hosted by Zuhumnan Dapel. According to recent estimates on combating global energy poverty, more than half a billion people will still lack access to...

  32. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Join the us online and in-person for our final seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. During our final session we will look at the future of the...

  33. Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Leshu Torchin

    This presentation maps out a research project in the making that investigates disability inclusion schemes within the UK screen industries, and specifically the...