Welcome to the St Andrews Research Repository

This is the official institutional research repository for the University of St Andrews. The repository contains electronic theses and research publications including articles, conference proceedings, working papers and some research monographs. It also contains material and publications affiliated to the University and arising from specific projects. Full text content is provided for all research publications in the repository, and wherever possible (following embargoes) for electronic theses.

The University requires submission of an electronic version of theses. For help with electronic thesis deposit see Library webpages on how to submit your electronic copy or contact Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The full text of research papers can be submitted to the repository via How to deposit in Pure or contact the Open Access team at openaccess@st-andrews.ac.uk.

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  • Processing and upgrading of lignin for high-value applications 

    Davidson, Daniel James (2024-12-04) - Thesis
    Lignin is a complex, heterogeneous biopolymer composed of aromatic subunits connected through a variety of interunit linkages. It is the second most abundant natural biopolymer behind cellulose. Lignin represents a renewable ...

  • Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats : a multidisciplinary approach 

    Templeton, Anne; Telga, Maika; Ronchi, Enrico; Neville, Fergus Gilmour; Reicher, Stephen David; Drury, John (2024-06-05) - Journal article
    People facing threat may evacuate, help others, confront the source of threat, share information, ignore the threat and the plight of others, or enact a combination of these behaviours. Accurate conceptual models of crowd ...

  • Stock price synchronicity, liquidity creation and internal dividends : evidence from U.S. banking 

    Zheng, Yeliangzi (2024-12-04) - Thesis
    This thesis explores the determinants of stock price synchronicity, liquidity creation and internal dividends in the context of the United States (U.S.) banking industry. As a quasi-experimental setting, we utilise the ...

  • The ethics of harming 

    Joseph, Joel (2024-12-04) - Thesis
    Commonsense morality rejects an unqualified requirement to promote the overall good. Moral constraints prohibit you from bringing about the overall good. For example, you seem morally required to save five people over one. ...

  • Hybrid war and visual performances in digital Donbas militarism 

    Gregg, James (2025-06) - Thesis
    This thesis explores online wartime commemoration by pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2020 as a part of Russian hybrid war against Ukraine. I analyze two ‘digital memory sites’: the social media account ...

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