Charities need leadership, too
Daniel Valentine, MLitt Management Economics & Politics 2000, describes his new role as Executive chair of Lovey Foundation UK, and how the problem-solving skills he developed at St Andrews have…
Category: Alumni Stories
From History graduate to story gatherer
Anne Power, MA 1979, describes how a degree in History at St Andrews ultimately led to a career in psychotherapy.
Journey to the ends of the earth – and back to St Andrews
Ben Weber (MA Hons 2004)describes how he has come full circle from graduating in 2004 to starting a PhD here in 2023 – via China, Brazil, India and an expedition…
From Gaza to St Andrews
In 2022 Isra’a Hatem Al-Jaish enrolled at St Andrews to study an MSc in International Education thanks to the support of a St Andrews Education for Palestinian Students (STEPS) scholarship.…
From St Andrews to Harvard – via the Dundas Medal
Roger Flint (BSc Hons 2007) was recently awarded the Dundas Medal for his work on creating SPOT – a software app that supports the safer prescription of opioids. Here he…
From approx. 21 words to exactly 50 words
Simon Lamb (BSc Hons 2013) describes how he segued from graduating with a degree in Mathematics at St Andrews to becoming the Scriever (writer-in-residence) at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum…
St Andrews – an economic microclimate
Harry Bremner (BSc Hons 2018) describes how the ‘economic microclimate’ at St Andrews gave him the entrepreneurial experience to launch Tuggs – the UK’s first freshly-prepared dog food that is…
Leaving a legacy: Alexandra Walmsley
Alexandra Walmsley graduated with a degree in Modern History and International Relations from the University of St Andrews in 1993 and went on to complete a PhD in Modern History…
Squeeze the orange
Dr Adam Boggon (BSc Hons 2012) is a current Fulbright scholar at Harvard. Here he describes the importance of ‘squeezing the orange’ – a principle he first learned at St…
Santander Universities to the rescue!
Siobhan Dooley (MA Hons 2013) is currently working towards submitting her PhD thesis at the University of St Andrews. She applied for and won one of the ten £1000 grants…