At the start of June, the School of Biology welcomed a group of six Scientific Technologies Foundation Apprentice students from Fife College for a week’s work placement. Hosted predominantly by School technicians,…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
The Biology EDI Committee wants our school to be a supportive working environment in which all members of staff (academic, teaching, research, administrative and technical) and students reach their full potential. We…
Biology is working to ensure that our staff have thought about ensuring equality, diversity and inclusiveness in their advertising and recruitment, and have a new process for submitting adverts and further particulars…
A recording is available for Professor Anne Magurran’s (University of St Andrews) public lecture on her world-leading research on biodiversity, Why BioDiversity Matters. This lecture was in celebration of the UN…
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