People
Graduate School team
Director
Dr Morven Shearer
Morven is the head of the Graduate School and has overall responsibility for its academic and administrative operations.
- Email:
- dirgs@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 3805
Deputy Director
Dr Walter Pedriali
Walter is responsible for the academic operations of the Graduate School. Walter is the Graduate School's director of teaching and also fulfils the duties of assessments officer and academic misconduct officer.
- Email:
- depdirgs@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2033
School Manager
Mrs Lisa Neilson
As School Manager, Lisa is responsible for the planning and coordination of the administrative operations of the Graduate School. This includes the role of Careers Link and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer.
- Email:
- gradschoolman@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2032
Senior Administrator
Miss Claire Brodie
Claire provides administrative support to the Graduate School. Claire is the Graduate School's Disabilities Coordinator and is clerk to the Module Examination Board and the Degree Classification Board.
- Email:
- gradschool@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067
Administrator
Mrs Donna Marr
Donna provides administrative support to the Graduate School. She covers reception duties, supports teaching administration, and processes applications for incoming students. She is also clerk to the Student Staff Consultative Committee.
- Email:
- gradschool@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067
Interdisciplinary Education Research Assistant (Postgraduate)
Sandro Eich
Sandro researches interdisciplinary education initiatives to inform the Graduate School’s growing portfolio of student experience support. He is also a PhD researcher in the School of English.
- Email:
- se56@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2038
Social Media Assistant
Bina Avdich
Bina is in charge of creating content for the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary website and social media accounts (X/Twitter and Instagram). Bina is also a 2nd year PhD student at the School of Medicine
- Email:
- ea77@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067
MSc and MLitt directors
Energy Policy and Finance MSc Programme Director
Dr Emilka Skrzypek
Emilka is the director of the MSc in Energy Policy and Finance, and the deputy director of the University of St Andrews Centre for Energy Ethics. Emilka’s research is focused on issues associated with supplying so-called energy transition metals for the global energy transition, and the expansion of extractive industries in the Pacific under conditions of climate change.
- Email:
- ees7@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067
- Website:
- Energy Policy and Finance (MSc)
Gender Studies MLitt - Co-Director
Dr Jade Fletcher
Jade is Co-Director of the MLitt in Gender Studies, Deputy Director of the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies, and a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. Jade's research focuses on a variety of issues in feminist philosophy and social metaphysics.
- Email:
- jef1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- MLitt Gender Studies
Gender Studies MLitt - Co-Director (Semester 2 only)
Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza
Ana is Co-Director of the MLitt in Gender Studies and director of the St Andrews Gender Institute. Ana's research interests include migration, gender, economic anthropology, inequality, care, labour, morality and ethics.
- Email:
- apgg1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- MLitt Gender Studies
Global Social and Political Thought MLitt - Co-Director
Dr Milinda Banerjee
Milinda is co-director of the MLitt in Global Social and Political Thought. Milinda's research draws on global intellectual history, critical theory, and political theology.
Global Social and Political Thought MLitt - Co-Director
Dr Vassilios Paipais
Vassilios is co-director of the MLitt in Global Social and Political Thought. His research focuses on three areas: the theory and history of realism as an ethico-political response to the crisis of liberal modernity in the 20th century, the question of ontology in politics and international relations, and the study of political theology in world politics.
Health Data Science MSc - Co-Director
Dr David Harris-Birtill
David is co-director of the MSc in Digital Health. David's research interests include remote sensing, image and signal processing, and machine learning for patient benefit.
- Email:
- dcchb@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- MSc Health Data Science
Health Data Science MSc - Co-Director
Professor Silvia Paracchini, FRSE FRSB
Silvia is co-director of the MSc in Digital Health. Silvia's research focuses on the genetic component of neurodevelopmental disorders such as dyslexia.
- Email:
- sp58@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- MSc Health Data Science
Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt - Co-Director
Dr Catherine Eagleton
Katie is co-director of the MLitt in Museum and Heritage Studies.Throughout her career, Katie’s work has combined library, archival and museum collections. Moving into the cultural heritage sector after completion of her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she became a curator in the British Museum developing new projects on global history and the history of Africa, and then Head of Asian and African Collections for the British Library, initiating a number of large digitisation projects, international collaborations, and service improvement projects. Katie joined the University as Director of Museums in July 2019 and was appointed Director of Libraries and Museums on 1 August 2020.
- Email:
- cte1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt
Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt - Co-Director
Dr Nicôle Meehan
Nicôle is co-director of the MLitt in Museum and Heritage Studies. Nicôle's research focuses on digital museum objects, networks of interaction, audience engagement and inclusion, museum education and critical data ethics.
- Email:
- npm6@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt
Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt- Deputy Director
Matthew Sheard
Matt is Deputy Director of the MLitt in Museum and Heritage Studies. He is also Head of Experience and Engagement for the University Museums, where he is responsible for audiences, programming, learning, accessibility, audience research and evaluation, digital engagement, and marketing.
- Email:
- mjs42@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- Museum and Heritage Studies MLitt
Sustainable Development MSc - Director
Dr Jessica Hope
Jessica is the Director of the MSc in Sustainable Development. Jessica is a political ecologist who extends political ecology’s concern for environmental justice with geographical treatments of infrastructure and materiality. Her current project investigates how new roads in the Amazon change environmental knowledges and politics, using these roads as a new conceptual entry point for understanding the global sustainable development project. Completed projects investigated the early-take of the SDGs in Bolivia (a place where there are both intensifying commitments to resource extraction and radical alternatives) and the political ecology of post-neoliberalism in Bolivia (specifically, the TIPNIS). Jessica was previously a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship at the University of Bristol, Lecturer at the University of Cambridge & Teaching Fellow at UCL. Her PhD (2015) is from the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester, where she was supervised by Prof Dan Brockington & Dr Tanja Bastia
- Email:
- jch31@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1334 46 2067 (Graduate School Office)
- Website:
- MSc in Sustainable Development
Honorary Lecturer
Dr Alasdair Gordon Gibson
Alasdair has worked for over twenty years with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement planning and managing humanitarian programmes in emergency relief and economic security. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews with research focusing on examination of how the discourse around humanitarian principles and practice can be re-cast in the contemporary political environment to enable greater impact and relevance to communities affected by crisis. Alasdair contributes to teaching on the International Development Practice MSc.
