This week’s events
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Climate Café drop-in
Join us at the Climate Café® in St Andrews during Sustainability Week. This special Climate Café is a drop-in event at Franki's Café at the University...
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Genomics for future trees
Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) Seminar series by Professor Richard Buggs (Queen Mary University...
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Green Shores Saltmarsh Planting
South Shore Eden Estuary - Free
Join in helping us to restore saltmarshes on the south shore of the Eden Estuary! Saltmarshes act as buffers to coastal flooding and erosion, are valuable...
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Computer Science PGR Seminar
Tom Metcalfe and Berné Nortier
Tom Metcalfe will present Entangled: A Posthumanist Storytelling Artefact Abstract: This seminar presents a work-in-progress exploring the making of the...
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Bike to work and liftshare breakfast
Bike to work or carpool with a colleague, neighbour or friend to celebrate Sustainability Week and enjoy a free breakfast at Tindal's Cafe. Cycle to work...
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Tree planting event -- Observatory Shelterbelt
Join Transition St Andrews to diversify this existing woodland by planting a rich understory of native fruiting and flowering trees and shrubs. This will...
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Bike to work and liftshare breakfast
Rector's Cafe
Bike to work or carpool with a colleague, neighbour or friend to celebrate Sustainability Week. Join Transition St Andrews at Rector's Café in the Union...
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St Andrews Prize for the Environment: 2025-2026 Finalists Presentations
Sustainability Week
Join us during Sustainability Week for the 2025-2026 final of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. The St Andrews Prize is a major international...
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Organ concert by Campbell Watterson Organ Scholars
£5, FREE to Music Centre members
The talented organ scholars of St Salvator's Chapel perform a lunchtime programme.
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SEES Seminar: Dr Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin
How old are diamonds?
Please join us online or in Bute Lecture Theatre D, all welcome.
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Conversation with our ocean: silent video projection
Art installation by Ogilvie and Page - free
Elizabeth Ogilvie and Rob Page are known for environmental, ocean-focused art installations, including the Meander commission for Perth's Mill Street....
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"Immaterial Evidence": Contemporary Art Exhibition and Performances
Transept-a practising artist's group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts-is pleased to announce this year's contemporary...
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Tom Houlton, University of York
Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance
Monuments and memorials mark where terror and counterterror did and do occur. They can also become agents of terror and counterterror themselves, drawn...
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Department of Economics Seminar with Dr Felix Schaff, Utrecht University
Dividing the Spoils: Property Rights and Gender Inequality Before Industrialization
Abstract: The security of property rights is considered fundamental to economic development, yet most analysis focuses on protection from state expropriation...
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St Andrews Prize for the Environment --- Announcement of 2025-2026 Winner
Sustainability Week
Join us during Sustainability Week for the announcement of the winner of the 2025-2026 of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. The St Andrews Prize is a...
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Lunch & Learn Skill Session -- Intellectual Property in Practice: What It Is, Why It Matters and Who
This semester, the Entrepreneurship Centre is hosting Lunch & Learn: Skill Sessions, a two‑part series designed to give students and staff practical,...
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Evensong
A 45-minute service of prayer, both spoken and sung by St Salvator's Chapel Choir. All are warmly invited to this service, regardless of whether you share...
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Green Drinks
A social event with lovely people!
Come along this Sustainability Week to meet like-minded people interested in sustainability, the environment, and other green issues in our St Andrews...
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Relaxed Drawing
Drop into the Wardlaw Museum to relax and draw. Find a place in the galleries and take inspiration from great artworks, capture the detail of an ancient...
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Sustainability showcase
Discover the diversity of sustainability research taking place across the University of St Andrews. Chaired by Professor Tom Brown, Vice-Principal (Research,...
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Sow a wildflower meadow
St Katharine's Lodge
Come along this Sustainability Week and take part in creating a rich space for wildlife and people to enjoy. Join our team of technical professionals in...
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Critical mass glow ride
Join Transition St Andrews for a friendly social cycle ride around the streets of St Andrews. We'll go at a relaxed pace and make sure no one is left...
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Sustainable Finance Symposium
This event is organised by the Department of Finance and the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) in collaboration with Scotland Beyond Net Zero...
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Sow a wildflower meadow
Castlecliffe
Come along this Sustainability Week and take part in creating a rich space for wildlife and people to enjoy. Our technical professionals team will be...
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Beach clean at East Sands
With an introduction to the Ocean Deep Time Walk
Join Transitions for a social beach clean on East Sands for Sustainability Week. Starting in front of the Scottish Oceans Institute building we will listen to...
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Professionalising Your PhD: STEM
Are you curious about how the skills you develop during your PhD can open doors in a variety of career paths, particularly in the STEM sectors? Whether...
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MusicTalks with Timothy Schwarz
The influence on today's composers of older traditions and compositions - FREE
Our free music talks highlight a wide variety of musical research.
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Professionalising Your PhD: STEM
Are you curious about how the skills you develop during your PhD can open doors in a variety of career paths, particularly in the STEM sectors? Whether...
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Professionalising Your PhD: STEM
Are you curious about how the skills you develop during your PhD can open doors in a variety of career paths, particularly in the STEM sectors? Whether...
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The BIG plant-based taste challenge
Do you fancy trying something new and delicious? Join Transitions for a tasty adventure into the world of vegan food. From rich, creamy plant‑based milk to...
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Corrour X Research Sustainability Partnership
Join Charlie Davis from Corrour to hear about how the Corrour X University of St Andrews Research and Sustainability Partnership is creating new opportunities...
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Homeric narrative patterns in Plato's Republic
Liz Scharffenberger (Columbia)
This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...
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Inclusive and sustainable futures for Scotland
Our nation has a track record of global impact in addressing social and environmental problems, being one of the first countries to implement legally binding...
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Language as a tool, diplomacy as a system
Rethinking career pathways for modern language graduates
School of Modern Languages students are invited to this talk by Chih-Hua Ding, Director General of the Taipei Representative office in the UK (Edinburgh...
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Limited access
Corrour X Research Sustainability Partnership
Join Charlie Davis from Corrour to hear about how the Corrour X University of St Andrews Research and Sustainability Partnership is creating new opportunities...
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Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi
'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking Tradition from the 1880-1980'
Join us for Seif El Rashidi's Research Lecture on 'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking...
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Revising Writing Assignments to Discourage Generative AI Abuse
Arts and Humanities
Please join us for a lecture by Professor Elizabeth Losh (College of William and Mary). It will be followed by an open discussion. Revising Writing Assignments...
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Green film and panel discussion: Why not Scotland?
Join Transition St Andrews for a special Sustainability Week screening of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture's feature-length documentary, Why not Scotland?. This...
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Scotland Beyond Net Zero: a toolkit for researchers
Scotland Beyond Net Zero (SBNZ) has developed a toolkit to help researchers articulate their contribution to sustainability and highlight their added value to...
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Department of Economics Brown Bag with Dr Giacomo Cattelan
The Interaction of Capital Constraints and Financial Volatility
Abstract: This paper presents new evidence on how the countercyclicality of excess returns is driven by the interaction between the financial sector's...
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Lunchtime concert by Timothy Schwarz and Ben Shute (violins)
£5, FREE to Music Centre Members
The Laidlaw Music Centre is delighted to welcome Timothy Schwarz, Associate Professor and Head of Strings at Rowan University, New Jersey. This lunchtime...
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School of Chemistry Seminar: Dr Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa (Johnson Matthey)
Recycling of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs): impact on sustainability models for industrial applications
Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) are essential to almost every aspect of modern life, from food production to travel, medicine and electronics. They are also...
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA
AI and Assessment Design
AI and Assessment Design
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State of asylum: current issues and future directions in UK asylum policy
Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights (CCRHR)
Join the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights (CCRHR) for a conversation with leading scholars on UK asylum and immigration policy from across...
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Department of Management Seminar with Dr Céline Benoit, University of Nottingham
Working with the NHS and community partners to tackle health inequalities
It is estimated that poor health reduces global GDP by 15% each year, largely due to premature deaths and lost productive potential among the working-age...
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Understanding and neutralising venom toxins: from toxin characterisation to engineered therapeutics
Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Stefanie Menzies, University of Lancaster.
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Compline
A service of night prayer, led by members of the Chaplaincy team, with music, spoken prayers and silence in the beautiful surroundings of St Leonard's...
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Corrour -- undergraduate biodiversity internship
Corrour is a pioneering rural estate whose primary objective is data-led ecological restoration. Located in the Scottish Highlands, it is home to a wide range...
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Quiet Opening
Drop into the Wardlaw Museum for a Quiet Opening. Free from the hustle and bustle of a general visit, with adjusted operations, our Quiet Openings are designed...
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Tour of Eden Campus
Part of Sustainability Week
Join Walter Bower House colleagues during Sustainability Week for a guided tour of the University's Eden Campus and a behind‑the‑scenes look at how...
