New research centre at St Andrews: CATCH

The Centre for Archaeology, Technology and Cultural Heritage (CATCH) is a multi-disciplinary centre that brings together researchers from across the University of St Andrews. The Centre promotes research into all aspects of past human activity from across the globe, with the aim of making our research accessible to the widest audience as possible. The Centre brings together arts and sciences in order to investigate how humans have been influenced by, and changed, their environment.

The Schools, Departments and Units involved in CATCH are: Art History, Classics, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geography & Sustainable Development, History, Museum Collections Unit and Social Anthropology.

"Digitising cave art will prevent it being lost forever"
New Scientist, April 2014

Cloud computing project soars

Prof. Ian Sommerville, of the School of Computer Science, working with colleagues in Robert Gordon University, is leading an SFC Horizon project, Services to the Cloud, to transfer St Andrews cloud computing expertise to industry. He will be working with a number of software companies serving the oil and gas industry.  The project recognises St Andrews expertise in cloud computing where we are one of the leading research centres in Europe, with world-leading work focused on migrating current software systems to the cloud.