Saints Netball: an amazing on and off court experience
Sally Sandison (MA 2020) was already passionate about netball when she came to study at St Andrews and joined Saints Netball. She describes here how belonging to the club has…
Category: Alumni Stories
Legacy of sport at St Andrews
When Matt Taylor (MA 2019) arrived at St Andrews and joined the Boat Club, he found there was a lack of equipment and resources but a ‘warm and visionary mindset’…
A series of fortunate accidents
Mick May OBE (MA 1981) graduated from St Andrews to embark on a career in finance in the City of London for 20 years. He then set up and grew…
An unforgettable journey
In the summer of 1968 a group of St Andrews students undertook an unforgettable journey to Istanbul and back on an adapted double decker bus. Margaret Hills (MA 1968) was…
How I went ‘from zero to hero’: the journey from undergraduate to graduate
Sagar Kumar (BSc Management 2020) had a less than stellar start to his University career. But with a little help from the University and his friends he completed his degree…
The Student Bubble
Olivia Dovernor (MChem 2020) not only had a successful academic career at St Andrews: she also came up with the idea of a property app – The Student Bubble –…
Why I give back…
It’s a source of great pride to us that our alumni give so generously to our scholarship programmes. With your support we can widen access, nurture talent and maximise potential…
Fieldwork in the time of COVID-19
Ann Gillian Chu started her PhD (Divinity) programme at St Andrews in 2018. She was conducting her fieldwork research in Hong Kong when the pandemic struck. The Development team asked…
Music at St Andrews: the best of all worlds
Fiona Croal (MA 2019) discovered that St Andrews offers the best of both worlds to those who are passionate about music: she was able to graduate in Economics while still…
Changing trains
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (MA 1990) recently had his debut novel The Lizard published and it is already receiving excellent reviews. He has agreed to host our first ever online Meet the…