The triple bottom line is a term coined in the late 1990s by the influential business thinker and consultant, John Elkington. It captures a very neat idea, namely that a modern organisation has three broad…
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It is an enduring mystery how juvenile salmon, at 12cm long and weighing perhaps only 20g, can leave a Scottish river in springtime, undertake a sojourn of thousands of kilometres around the North Atlantic…
As humans, we point all the time. It’s an action we do almost without thinking: even one-year-old infants use pointing and understand what pointing means when an adult does it for them. It’s a really simple…
How do you get to know one of Earth’s most mysterious creatures? By looking at its earwax, according to a group of US researchers. Analysing the contents of blue whales’ ears, through a process similar…
When the leaders of the world’s most powerful economies gather in Northern Ireland on Monday, one issue will overshadow all others: tax. For years the matter of how global corporations engage with offshore…
Social psychology addresses many of the important questions that concern us as human beings. It’s also the subject of newspaper editorials on most days: why is there conflict between groups? How can it…
Many young people in Europe think violent protest can be a legitimate response to the political system they feel no connection to. They believe government pays very little attention to them and have very…
The powers that be describe the street violence and social upheaval which took place in England’s major cities last week as “mindless”. Yet it was anything but. Prime Minister David Cameron, among others…
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Associate lecturer in international relations, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews
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Associate lecturer in the school of art history, St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer in Finance, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, University of St Andrews
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews
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Visiting Scholar, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Student, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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Senior Researcher, School of Geography and the Environmen, University of Oxford, and Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
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Professor, University of St Andrews
