World Bee Day: beyond the hive
To mark World Bee Day 2024, alumnus Gavin Ballantyne (PhD 2011) reflects on the importance of appreciating pollinators and all that they do for us. He also highlights the many…
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Season’s greetings: December celebrations from around the world
Amid all the Christmas cheer we’re also thinking, joining in with and celebrating other religious and cultural festivities that take place in December. African American, Jewish, Buddhist and Pagan communities…
The Human Race as One
The Kaleidoscope Alumni Network marked Interfaith Week, which was celebrated from 12-19 November by groups and individuals including the University’s Interfaith Steering Group and the School of Divinity. Here, we…
Reconnect with us and each other! An update from STAMSA
Raahim Zafar (MA 2020) is a Strategic Communications and Development Consultant who works with organisations and communities across the UK, particularly with The Faith and Belief Forum. Sara Ahmed is…
Recolouring the Queer
Kiki, a fourth-year student of Economics and International Relations, and BAME representative within the University’s LGBTQ+ Network, explains how their experience of arriving at St Andrews from India as a…
Light on the darkest night
Celebrated to coincide with the darkest night of the lunar month of Kartik in either late October or early November, Deepawali or Diwali is the Hindu New Year’s Day. It…
Black History Month 2023 – Panel of Power: Saluting our sisters
Isaac Pickrum is a third-year studying International Relations, focusing on decolonial theory and revolutionary ecology (indigeneity and biocentricity). Born and raised Black in Washington DC, he is passionate about…