What I love about doing fieldwork-based research in Social Anthropology is that you can never know what to expect. When I started my project five weeks ago, I did know that I was going to investigate the relationship…
When we approach history, or art history in this case, we always approach it with the reverential behaviour that best suits times and characters far away, names that became legendary, events that characterised an era.…
Many of us consider the fight for women’s reproductive rights to be dealt with, we – at St Andrews – are fortunate enough to live in a country which gives women the right to control their fertility. Whilst this may…
It is around six weeks since I finished my research period for this first summer of the Laidlaw Scholarship; this has allowed me an extended period of time away from my project where I have been able to digest the…
Throughout my research into how past legal reformers conceive of and understand the law in abstract, I have learnt new knowledge as well as various new skills in both an academic and leadership sense. Indeed, following…
Do you ever put off doing something, preferring instead to google the best way of doing it? Then you realise you could never possibly do it “the right way”, & so there must be no hope in trying? I have used this…
Please look at my previous post for some background information about my project. In the lab we are looking at ParaHox genes in the animal Ciona intestinalis (aka sea squirt – aptly named because when you pick it out…
In fertilisation the DNA from the sperm and egg combines to form an embryo. This then divides from a single-celled embryo to a 2-cell embryo, then a 4-cell embryo, 8-cell embryo, 16-cell embryo…etc. But at the…
Hello Laidlaw scholars, during the last five weeks I was working on a project called “Scotland and The Amazon” with my supervisor Dr. Mark Harris, in the department of Social Anthropology. My project in a nutshell…
Strange, extinct life always holds a certain fascination, of which the Dinosaurs are the best example. 500 million years before T-Rex however, a less fearsome but equally weird and fascinating group of life colonised…
