Biology Workload Creep Survey
In 2022, we surveyed School of Biology staff about their perception of workload, including how it has changed over time and the impact of those changes on staff wellbeing. We have now published this report and make…
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Distinguished Public Lecture: Fighting Racial Myths
The Biology Anti-Racist Committee (BARC) and the School of Biology EDI Committee are extremely excited to announce that award-winning journalist and author Angela Saini will be visiting St Andrews to give…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science Public Lecture: Prof Melanie Welham
Update 31 Jan – CANCELLED Please note this event has been cancelled due to the UCU Industrial Action planned for that day. We will look into the possibility of rescheduling this. UN International Day of Women and…
Lecture on decolonizing the biology curriculum
On Friday 7 October 2022, Professor Kevin Lala gave a lecture on “decolonizing the biology curriculum” to first year students in the School of Biology. The lecture discusses the science of race and racism and the need…
The Jeff and Ellen Graves Coffee and Cake room
The Centre for Biological Diversity’s coffee room has been renamed “The Jeff and Ellen Graves Coffee and Cake Room” in celebration and gratitude for all the diverse contributions Jeff and Ellen made to our community.
EDI Round table
On Monday 11 July 2022, Kevin Laland held a lunchtime EDI roundtable discussion with the Women in Bioscience group (WoBio) at the University of Vienna. Kevin shared BEDI’s experience of going from EDI novices to Athena…
School of Biology REF2021 results
REF (the Research Excellence Framework) is an exercise that looks periodically (the previous REF was in 2014) across the UK at university output (the quality of research papers), environment (people, facilities etc)…
EDI matters: The journey from novices to gold
On 12 May 2022 Kevin Laland gave a talk at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition about the School of Biology’s journey from EDI novices to Athena Swan Gold Award holders.
Research excellence in Biology
Research at Scotland’s oldest university amongst the highest quality in the country. Over 84% of research carried out by the School of Biology is world-leading or internationally excellent, according to the results of…
Biology Head of School weekly update
A slight delay in the message as it was a University holiday on Monday. I am delighted to report that on Monday evening David and Marie Paterson and myself were at Edinburgh Airport to welcome our first two Ukrainian…
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