About

The Sustainable Futures Group is one of the research groups within the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. Staff and postgraduate research students come together to develop and share ideas, skills and knowledge.

We collectively envision sustainable futures and explore pathways towards these futures.

We share areas and patterns of scholarship and enjoy a mixed suite of activities and events. Our logo represents three spirals, an ancient Celtic symbol representing the motions of life, or heart, hand and head (spirit, body and mind), creation, preservation and destruction and other meanings. Similar symbols are gound in Indigenous cultures around the globe.

Sustainable Futures Group goals:

• Undertake rigorous, critical research that seeks questions as well as impacts in relation to sustainable futures.
• Navigate transdisciplinary practices, across academic disciplines, through co-production, linking theory and practice.
• Establish a research presence which enables conversations and liminal clusters within and across our diverse interests and creates links to other groups, centres, institutions and nations, weaving connections across space, time and topic whilst disrupting unsustainable ideas and patterns.
• Link research and teaching through research-led teaching, pedagogical innovation and impact in university and other learning spaces.