Central Faculty

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2031

• 131 Active
• 349 Finished

Projects per year

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  Understanding components of specific weight in barley grains - opportunities for improving grain quality and processing efficiency

  Hoad, S.

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Grains 100%
  • Weight 100%
  • Barley 100%
  • Water 100%
  • Anthesis 100%

• Mathematical and statistical tools to quantify disease in aquaculture

  Davidson, R.

  REF Funding

  1/10/16 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Farmer behaviour and TB control: developing an interdisciplinary theory on the spread of infectious diseases

  Davidson, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/01/21

  Project: Research

• An investigation of the kinesiology of lying behaviour in dairy cattle and the implications for cow housing

  Haskell, M.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. & Dellar, M.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Potential benefits of commercially available fungal endophytes on the control of the major wheat diseases

  Havis, N.

  1/10/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Sermons, carrots or sticks? Evaluating climate change management in agriculture

  Eory, V.

  1/10/16 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• The effectrs of stress on the ruminal microbial environment in beef cattle and its relationship to feed efficiency and methane emissions

  Turner, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Determining the fungicide resistance management strategy of minor UK crops using Botrytis as a model

  Havis, N.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Mitigating producers' income fluctuations through collaborative supply chains in the dairy sector

  Revoredo Giha, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

• Preventing respiratory disease in calves: optimising ventilation and thermal comfort and reducing microbial transmission

  Haskell, M.

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

  • Calves 100%
  • Temperature 100%
  • Environment 50%
  • Hyperthermia 50%
  • Dairy Breeds 50%

• The use of networks of rumen microbial genes associated with performance traits for precision breeding and nutrition in beef cattle

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 1/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Genes 100%
  • Rumen 100%
  • Feed Conversion 100%
  • Cattle 100%
  • Microbial Gene 100%

• Ewe and lamb behaviour and lamb mortality during the periparturient period - effects of nutrition and genotype

  Dwyer, C.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 31/08/23

  Project: PhD project

• Demand-driven solutions to reduce aggression in pigs

  Turner, S.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Statistical Inference 100%
  • Consequences 100%
  • Welfare 100%
  • Aggression 100%

• Understanding farmer wealth, well-being and welfare : a comparative study of Scottish and Irish beef farmers

  Barnes, A.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Development of international sheep genetic and genomic evaluations between Ireland and the UK

  Banos, G.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  12/09/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Resistance elicitors to induce the inherent genetic resistance to eyespot and foliar diseases in varieties of wheat crops

  Havis, N.

  1/09/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Enhanced monitoring systems for improved health management of dairy-bred beef youngstock

  Duthie, C., Mason, C., Haskell, M., Parker, J. & McCubbin, I.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Behavior 100%
  • Calves 100%
  • Prediction 100%
  • Dairy Calves 100%
  • Accuracy 85%

• Understanding the functional and genomic architecture of the rumen microbiome affecting performance traits in bovines

  Roehe, R., Duthie, C. & Dewhurst, R.

  1/09/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Rumen 80%
  • Bovine 73%
  • Metagenome 69%
  • Genes 67%

• The implications of Brexit for rural Scotland Budget

  Atterton, J.

  1/08/16 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Rural Industries, funding for innovation, enterprise and impact: Alternative feeding strategies for Scottish pig, poultry and egg producers

  Houdijk, J.

  1/08/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Developing an integrated farm level model for spatial innovative uptake for Scottish Beef farms

  Barnes, A.

  1/07/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• Sharing expertise and experience towards sheep productivity through NET working (SheepNET)

  Dwyer, C., Vipond, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Camerlink, I., Frater, P. & McLaren, A.

  European Commission

  1/07/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Lambs 100%
  • Mortality 80%
  • Farmers 80%
  • Nutrition 60%

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

  Havis, N., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T., Burnett, F., Laing, A. & Fortune, J.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• Sustainable Agriculture Intensification and the Nexus in Brazil (SAIN)

  Barnes, A., Alexander, P., Silva, R., Moran, D. & MacLeod, M.

  9/05/16 → 8/05/19

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of British Limousin Cattle Society Data

  Kaseja, K., Moore, K. & Wells, A.

  1/04/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Hoad, S., Taylor, J., Crawford, C., Bingham, I., Hoebe, P., Tarsitano, D., Brennan, M., Topp, K. & Baddeley, J.

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

• Development of an easy to use metagenomics platform for agricultural science

  Dewhurst, R.

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbial Gene 100%
  • Volatile Fatty Acid 60%
  • Metagenomics 40%
  • Metabolic Pathway 40%
  • Phenotype 40%

• IMAGE Innovative management of animal genetic resources.

  Barnes, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B. & Moran, D.

  1/04/16 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

• Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance

  Dwyer, C., Lawrence, A., Dixon, L., Mackay, J., Wemelsfelder, F. & Haskell, M.

  14/03/16 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G., Conington, J., Lambe, N., Wall, E. & Topp, K.

  1/03/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Weather 100%
  • Animals 89%
  • Sheep 87%
  • Climate 84%
  • Animal 84%

• Understanding interactions between Ramularia collo-cygni and barley leaf physiology to target improvements in host resistance and disease control strategies

  Bingham, I.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  5/01/16 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Leaves 100%
  • Barley 100%
  • Ramularia 100%
  • Swan 100%
  • Leaf Spot 100%

• Understanding the physiological and molecular basis of genetic variation in post-flowering N dynamics in Barley to improve N use efficiency

  Bingham, I.

  SRUC internal funding

  5/01/16 → 31/07/23

  Project: PhD project

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Agri-Tech in China Network + Newton Fund

  Dewhurst, R. & Stott, A.

  1/01/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• N-CIRCLE: Virtual Joint centre for Closed-Loop Cycling of Nitrogen in Chinese Agriculture

  Rees, B., Roehe, R., Jones, S., Bingham, I., Tarsitano, D., Buckingham, S., Bell, M., Topp, K., Houdijk, J., Crawford, C., Anderson, C. & Parker, J.

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Crops 100%
  • Soil 89%
  • Agricultural Soil 82%
  • Productivity 80%
  • Common Wheat 70%

• Future-proofing our breeding goals: breeding for climate resilience in UK dairy systems

  Wall, E., Hill, D. & Moran, D.

  1/12/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Fin damage in farmed salmonids: an investigation of the underlying causal abnormal behaviour, fin biting, and the identification of risk factors that elicit fin biting on farm

  Haskell, M.

  1/10/15 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Strategic use of carbohydrase enzymes in broiler diets to increase productivity by improving gut health

  Khattak, F.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Novel methods for understanding the causes and control of a malting barley grain defect called ?skinning?

  Hoad, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Modelling the dynamics of monogastric gut microbiota

  Houdijk, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding the control of yield information in two and six row winter barley varieties to target disease management practice

  Bingham, I.

  1/10/15 → 29/05/20

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Balancing short and long-term aggression in pigs to maximise welfare and productivity

  Turner, S.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Strategies to reduce the risk of tail biting in pigs managed on slatted floors

  D'Eath, R.

  1/09/15 → 1/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Tail 77%
  • Floors 66%
  • Dietary Fiber 50%
  • Rearing 50%

• Combining agronomy, variety and chemistry to maintain control of septoria tritici in wheat

  Burnett, F., Yoxall, T. & Havis, N.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/08/15 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Breeding for feed conversion and behaviour in pigs in groups - consultancy

  Turner, S.

  1/07/15 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Developing sustainable management methods for club root

  Burnett, F., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T., Gravouil, C., McGrann, G., Dussart, F., Crawford, C. & Paterson, L.

  1/06/15 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J.

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of beef cattle and sheep

  Coffey, M., Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Kaseja, K. & Stainton, J.

  BASCO DATA LTD

  1/04/15 → 1/07/20

  Project: Research