Student Community
There is a wide range of student-led events happening in the Environmental Humanities across St Andrews.
PhD Opportunity: World-Leading Scholarship in Computer Science and Modern Languages
Application period closes 31st March 2026.
The University of St Andrews is pleased to offer a full scholarship funded by St Leonard’s Postgraduate College, to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the following project: Designing Techno-Cultural Ecologies: Prototyping Critical and Creative Interactions with Biodiversity.
This interdisciplinary PhD project investigates how digital technologies can be reconfigured to explore new frameworks for engaging with biodiversity. At a time of ecological crisis, when biodiversity loss remains less publicly understood and less culturally visible than climate change, the research seeks to rethink how knowledge of the natural world is produced, mediated, and shared. It offers an original contribution by integrating environmental humanities, design research, and digital fabrication to prototype new forms of technological engagement that do not merely represent biodiversity but recompose our ways of knowing and relating to it.
Please find more information about this Phd and how to apply here.
Past Student Community Events
CIMS PG Reading Group
24th April, 1-2pm-Buchanan 401 (BUC 401: Classroom)
Reading group discussing Transoceanic Memory (Studies): Oceans as Mode, Method and Material, by Hanna Teichler
email [email protected] to register attendance
‘Soils for life: exploring how soils can contribute to archaeology and vice versa’
01 May 2025– Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Meike van Lit (Glasgow)
All staff and students welcome to attend
‘Evolutionary Evil, Ecohorror and the Aesthetics of Cognition: Is There An Aesthetic Solution for Nature’s Disvalue?’
08 May 2025-Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Charlotte Forster (St Andrews)
All staff and students welcome to attend
Critical Sustainability Research: Careful, Participatory and Emancipatory Research Methods
12-15 May– four day workshop run by the School of Geography and Sustainable Development. To apply email [email protected]. Deadline 21 March 2025
The Himalayas as Empty Space? Colonial Legacies, Media Representations, and the Trekkers’ Experiences of Emptiness on the Annapurna Circuit
15 May 2025 -Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Giovanni Masara (St Andrews)
All staff and students welcome to attend.
Memory, Habitat and the Anthropocene
16 May 2025– CIMS PG symposium – Old Burgh School
(Re)Visiting Lade Braes: the social, political and economic histories of our nonhuman neighbours
22 May 2025–Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, this is an interactive walk along the Lade Braes. Please email [email protected] to register attendance
Speaker: Minke Hijmans (St Andrews)
Legal Persons/Legal Places : Land Communities in F.W. Maitland and Beyond
29 May 2025– Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Poppy Kershaw
All staff and students welcome to attend.
PGR Training Session: Developing and Reflecting on Ecological and Environmental Research
30 May, 11am-4pm- Boiler House, St Andrews Botanic Garden
This SGSAH CCE KE training event for PGRS will focus on developing and communicating arts and humanities research on ecology, with a particular emphasis on working with artists and arts organisations, though a mixture of practical sessions and discussions.
For more information, schedule and (free) sign-up, please see the Eventbrite listing – it is open to all PhDs in the arts and humanities (not just SGSAH students), for those working on ecocritical themes and approaches, or for those who are just interested in finding out more! You can also contact [email protected] for further information.
Sacred and the sewage- the many facets of the Ganges as depicted in the Classical Indian Dance ballet Namamey Gange
05 June 2025- Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Giri Raghunathan (Roehampton)
All staff and students welcome to attend.
Arts of attentiveness in the sciences and humanities: reimagining learning in, with, for and about nature
12 June 2025-Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Ben Ong
All staff and students welcome to attend.
The Nettle Project – embracing slow textile craft to promote interdisciplinary thinking about sustainable development.
19 June 2025- Postgraduate Workshop Series- Old Burgh School, 108 – Lumsden – Seminar Room 1 (5:00-6:15pm)
Speaker: Bridget Steenkamp (Roehampton)
All staff and students welcome to attend.
