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  1. Dr Aidan Fowler on 'Patient Safety'
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    Dr Aidan Fowler on 'Patient Safety'

    This April, the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis will welcome Dr Aidan Fowler, who will deliver this seminar on patient safety. Dr Fowler is the National Director of Patient Safety in England and a Deputy Chief Medical officer at the Department of Health and Social Care. Since March 2020 he has been on secondment...

  2. ICFUST 2024

    ICFUST 2024

    The 2nd International Congress on Far-UVC Science and Technology (ICFUST) will bring together researchers, innovators and policymakers from around the world to share the latest efficacy and safety information on this important pathogen-annihilating...

  3. Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective

    This conference is the last event of an exciting collaborative research project on Narrative Space and Possible Worlds: Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective. The project, funded by the St Andrews-Bonn Collaborative Research Grant Programme, brought together researchers based at the University of St Andrews and the University of Bonn from a...

  4. St Andrews Climate Week

    St Andrews Climate Week

    The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative, featuring: -- a flagship St Andrews Climate Change Conference on Tuesday 28 May. Confronting climate change is one of...

  5. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    Targeted small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of mobile zinc

    Zinc mis-regulation is associated with a wide range of disease states and there is an ongoing need to study the behaviour of 'mobile' or 'free' zinc to better understand its role in their development and progression. Small molecule fluorescent probes are commonly used for this purpose, and a significant number of probes have been...

  6. The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future
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    The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future

    A Seminar by Dr Danny Haddad

    This April, the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis will welcome Dr Danny Haddad, who will deliver this seminar on efforts to eliminate trachoma. Dr Haddad and CBM Global are key partners for the School of Medicine's Arclight Project -- working to improve eye and ear health worldwide. Dr Haddad is Director for Inclusive Eye...

  7. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on workshop exploring mediums of still image filmmaking facilitated by Animator, Priit Tender and Anthropologist, Carlo Cubero. Animators and ethnographers each engage in composing rich and complex...

  8. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference

    Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference

    Exploring new diagnostics -- big promise, big challenge

    Are you an innovator, researcher, clinician, policy-maker, or regulator who is interested in early diagnosis? You might be a patient, a member of the public, or a shareholder in a company making exciting technology in this area. If so, join the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis to explore what success looks like for the...

  9. Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    A conversation with Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar

    The turbulent Yiddish world of the first half of the twentieth century produced great works not only of literature, theatre, and music, but of cinema. In their new book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar explore these little-known, "ethnic," diasporic films and bring to light the films' unique preoccupation with the idea that, to quote...

  10. Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Dr Khairudin Aljunied

    The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology is pleased to welcome Dr Khairudin Aljunied from National University of Singapore to speak on the topic of 'Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization' on Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 4:30pm in the Senate Room, Parliament Building, University of St Andrews. The Islamic Civilization was, for...

  11. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide

    This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of the keys to our transition to a sustainable energy system, and is likely to require a mixture of approaches including batteries and sustainable hydrogen-based fuels. Lithium imide has emerged as a...

  12. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by Dr Paula...

  13. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials

    We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film materials and in organic electronic devices. CP light is central to many applications, including data storage, quantum computation, biosensing, environmental monitoring and display technologies. Such technologies require the generation of...

  14. Cultural memory, identity and images

    Cultural memory, identity and images

    CIMS PG Symposium

    Prepare to immerse yourself in a captivating exploration of 'cultural identity, memory and images' at this interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium organised by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS). At this year's event, there will be a special emphasis on the transformative role of imagery while delving into the intricate realms of cultural identity...

  15. Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Further information and registration details can be found via the link below. Please contact [email protected] if you have additional...

  16. International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    Transnational Island Museologies

    The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, and the European Research Council (ERC) selected and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) funded Shared Island Stories research project are pleased to welcome delegates to the hybrid (in-person and online) conference on the topic of Transnational Island...

  17. Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn
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    Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn

    Seminar by Dr Tomasz Cecot

    The School of Medicine will welcome Dr Tomasz Cecot this April, who will deliver this seminar on virtual reality in the anatomical sciences. Dr Cecot is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine with a particular research interest in anatomical education. He has extensive experience developing and implementing...

  18. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    Electron Diffraction -- an innovative and advantageous tool for structure determination of nanocrystalline materials

    Abstract: MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) is emerging as a powerful technique for the structural elucidation of challenging compounds as it bypasses the main limitation of growing crystals of suitable size for single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Applications range from natural products and pharmacology to geological sciences, advanced materials, nanotechnology, and many more. MicroED is also merging...

  19. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to a workshop in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 30th and 31st...

  20. The Diplomacy of Terror.  European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    The Diplomacy of Terror. European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    CSTPV Seminar with Prof. Valentine Lomellini, University of Padua (Italy)

    In the late 1960s, a new political actor appeared on the European stage: armed organisations from the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin export terrorism to the Old Continent to influence the international scene. France, West Germany, Great Britain and Italy -- countries simultaneously affected by domestic terrorism -- found themselves facing a new...