Marine Science in St Andrews
The new Scottish Oceans Institute features a public exhibition and outreach area – The Beverley and Frank MacInnis Gallery. This opened on 30 September 2019 with a specially designed exhibit showing some of the history…
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Cassie Stoddard to give the 2020 Women and Girls in Science public lecture
Princeton biologist Mary (Cassie) Stoddard will give the 2020 Women and Girls in Science Public Lecture in The Byre Theatre on March 16th. Her lecture, entitled “The Extraordinary World of Birds and their Eggs”, will…
Presentation on ‘Embedding Equality and Diversity into Biology Tutorials’
Dr Jacqueline Nairn gave a presentation on ‘Embedding Equality and Diversity into Biology Tutorials’ to the 2019 Annual Teaching Biology in Higher Education Network hosted by the University of the West of Scotland on…
Analysis of E&D in teaching
Raja Shah, a 4th year MBiochem student, undertook a 6 week project over the summer to analyse gender bias in teaching materials. The aim was to understand if there were particular modules/degree programs/years of study…
Success in the 2019 promotions round
Many congratulations to our staff who were successful in the annual promotions round: Tracey Gloster and Carlos Penedo have been promoted to Reader. This is a very well deserved recognition of talent and hard work,…
Annual report
The annual equality and diversity report is completed for 2018. The report provides an overview of staff composition, workload, recruitment and seminar series speakers. The composition of the School of Biology is…
The Athena SWAN journey: sharing top tips and best practice from Gold departmental award holders
On 11th June 2019, we held a workshop to share and promote best practice between institutions and departments applying for Athena SWAN awards. Three Athena SWAN Gold Award Holders spoke about their Athena SWAN journey:…
The Athena SWAN journey: top tips and best practice from Gold Award holders
The school of Biology is organising a workshop to share top tips and best practice with three Gold Athena Swan Award holders. The Athena SWAN journey: top tips and best practice from Gold Award holders Tuesday 11…
St Andrews PRIDE
St Andrews PRIDE is Fife’s longest-running LGBT+ pride procession, and is now in its fourth year. The event has grown year on year, and will be followed by a reception event in the Students’ Association. This year’s…
Careers session for PhD and postdocs
We ran another successful postgraduate and postdoctoral careers session during this year’s postgraduate conference on 19 March. Unfortunately two of our (male) speakers had to cancel at the last minute, but our…