Around the world on two wheels
Connor McElwaine (MLitt 2015) left his job in school leadership to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a long-distance bikepacking journey inspired by a desire to understand the world…
Category: Postgraduate
Online learning: from optics to AI
Andrei-Ioan Bleahu (MSc 2025) completed the online Masters programme in Data Science at St Andrews. He discusses his decision to study flexibly and remotely, his ambitions to transition into the…
A full circle moment: from student to part of the curriculum
Flavia D’Avila (PhD 2022) is an award-winning theatre director and researcher. She discusses her PhD workshops, making your own St Andrews traditions and the creation of Placeholder – a poignant…
Borrowed Stories and love at first sight
Karlee Bowlby (MLitt 2021) was inspired to study at St Andrews after falling in love with Scotland during her year abroad in 2013. Despite online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Forged in fire
Melissa Fogwill (MSc 2022) was recently appointed by accountancy firm Henderson Loggie as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer. Despite navigating a global pandemic and personal health struggle during her…
Off to St Andrews, sight unseen
Stuart Butler (BSc 1968; MA 1971; PhD 1978) is a public policy expert with over 40 years’ experience in healthcare, budget, education and more. He retired as a senior fellow…
From Greece to St Andrews: a journey of science, scents and exploration
Freideriki (Frida) Michailidou (PhD 2017) was named an ‘MIT Innovator Under 35 Europe’; she won the Science and Sustainability Award at the British Council’s Study UK Alumni Awards 2024; and…
A series of unbelievable coincidences
We were sad to hear of the death of Dr Frank Steven, (BSc 1955, PhD 1958) in December. Here his daughter Barbara Kirby (PhD 1987) describes how a series of…
A Highland Welcome for ‘una pionera’ wheresoever she lies
We were sad to learn of the death of Dr Sheila Wilyman (later Bowyer) (PhD 2006) in June 2024. We are grateful to her daughter – Professor Susan Edwards of…
Snow light and shadows: reflections on learning and loss
Dr Samantha Clark (PhD 2017) is a visual artist, writer and artist’s writing coach based in the Orkney Islands and working internationally. She was supervised throughout her PhD at St…