The University of St Andrews maintains a database of information about its graduates, managed by the Development Unit. As well as the names, education details and, where allowed, contact details of alumni, it sometimes…
Jane Worrell graduated with an MA in Modern and Medieval History in 1975. Working as a civil servant for over three decades, she was at the centre of creating inclusive workplaces and helping organisations get the best…
Barbara Woodward graduated with a MA Honours degree in History in 1983. She is one of the UK’s most senior diplomats, having served as Ambassador to China and as the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations.…
Alison Baverstock graduated with an MA in Mediaeval History & Fine Arts in 1980. A leading figure in publishing, she has built a career that also spans higher education, authorship, and literacy advocacy. She is now…
Ann Qureshi graduated with a MA Honours degree in Medieval History in 2000. She has worked in the financial sector, and is currently an IT Quality & Compliance Consultant at Novonesis, a Danish biotechnology company.
Rosemary Goring graduated with an MA in Economic and Social History in 1984. Rosemary spent three decades as a journalist, first at Scotland on Sunday and then at The Herald. She has also published six books, including…
Margaret Macdonald vividly remembers the excitement of studying in the young department of Mediaeval History in the 1960s… and explains why, after a career in school teaching, she decided to come back to do a PhD.…
Lynne Peabody graduated with a MA in Modern History in 2006. Working in the sustainability and social change sector for more than two decades, she currently leads the EY Foundation.
Amanda DeGiorgis graduated with a PhD in Medieval History in 2008. She is currently a classified reference librarian at the Los Alamos National Lab, where she works with records cataloguing the history of the Manhattan…
Seona Robertson graduated with a MA Honours degree in Mediaeval History in 1972. After post-graduate research in Florence and creating a film archive, Robertson has devoted her career to television in the UK and…