Projects

Projects open for student applications for 2025-2026

The following projects are currently open for student applications for 2025-2026. There is no specific deadline, however applications will be reviewing on a rolling basis and will be closed at the supervisor's discretion once the desired cohort size has been achieved. Hence, we recommend that you apply at the earliest opportunity.

Closed for applications

The following projects are not currently accepting student applications.

Work-Life Balance for All

We will explore what work-life balance is and isn't, what could it be, and how individuals and organisations (e.g., through policies and practices) support (or not) work-life balance.
The Science of Race and Racism

Studying the science underlying race and racism and producing antiracist resources.
PeaceHub: Global Mediation Database

Researching international peace processes through building a novel mediation dataset.
Mutual Aid Clinic

Researching, documenting, and examining the history and contemporary politics of marginalised communities within the international system.
Looking After Eden

Bringing together researchers and students from various disciplines who share an interest in the Eden Estuary.
Explaining Climate Impacts: Using Filmmaking to Explain Climate Change

Visualising the impact of climate change on our lives and environment.
Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making

Developing an AI software toolkit to solve optimisation and decision-making problems.
Dolphin Acoustics at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science

Evaluating, improving, developing and applying detection and classification methods for passive acoustic data collected from dolphins.
Creating Accessible Online Mathematics and Statistics Resources

Creating and curating bespoke and accessible online learning resources for mathematics and statistics.
Biodiversity Literacy

Monitoring biodiversity on the University of St Andrews estate to promote engagement and positive decisions with respect to biodiversity.
Beauty and the Biz

Studying female beauty (micro)influencers, their media and representations, and understanding their impact.
The Beautiful Game

Researching major questions relating to professional football using quantitative data.
Bacteriophage Discovery

Isolating novel bacteriophage viruses and examining their diversity to understand applications to phage therapy.

Forthcoming

The following projects will be running in the future.