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• 410 Finished

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  RESAS RD2.2.7 - 2021/22

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Wemelsfelder, F. (Researcher), Lawrence, A. (Researcher), Haskell, M. (Researcher), D'Eath, R. (Researcher) & Vigors, B. (Researcher)

  1/04/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Welfare 100%
  • Animal Welfare 100%
  • Farm Animal 33%
  • Decision Making 33%
  • Health Management 16%

• IPM-N: Mapping information networks that influence farmer behaviours related to IPM adoption (MINIF)

  Meador, E. (PI) & Creissen, H. (CoI)

  31/03/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Information Network 100%
  • Agronomists 100%
  • Integrated Pest Management 100%
  • Information Source 27%
  • Farm Animal 9%

• Quantifying the relative nitrogen use efficiency of foliar and soil applied fertilizer

  Bingham, I. (PI), Reilly, Z. (CoI) & Lindsay, P. (CoI)

  1/03/21 → 3/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Spring Barley 100%
  • Common Wheat 100%
  • Growers 50%
  • Nitrate Fertiliser 50%
  • Ammonium Nitrate 50%

• Methane-inhibiting livestock feed supplements: review of net impacts, barriers to success and consumer acceptance

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Newbold, J. (PI), Miller, G. (PI) & Vigors, B. (Researcher)

  8/02/21 → 8/08/21

  Project: Research

  • Methane 100%
  • Feed Supplements 66%
  • Livestock Feeds 66%
  • Beef Cattle 33%
  • Dairy Cattle 33%

• Scoping Study on the Opportunities and Barriers of Improved Forages for Livestock Sustainability and Productivity

  Watson, C. (PI), Newbold, J. (CoI) & Topp, K. (PI)

  1/02/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Forage Crop 33%
  • Clover 22%
  • Onobrychis viciifolia 16%
  • Feeds 16%

• Understanding precision livestock farming adoption in the US swine industry: Examining needs, perceptions, and willingness to pay of users and consumers

  Turner, S. (PI), Vigors, B. (PI) & Akaichi, F. (PI)

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Precision Agriculture 100%
  • USDA 100%
  • Precision Livestock Farming 100%

• Developing a decision support tool to inform land management scenarios in Montserrat

  McVittie, A. (PI), Hamilton, A. (CoPI), Gibson-Poole, S. (CoPI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (Researcher)

  26/01/21 → 26/03/21

  Project: Other

  • Land Management 100%
  • Montserrat 100%
  • Natural Capital 50%
  • Belief Networks 50%
  • Land Use 50%

• SEFARI FELLOWSHIP with the Life Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group - Animal Health, Agritech and Aquaculture sub-group

  Bowen, J. (PI)

  11/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Other

  • Animal Health 100%
  • Farm Animal 50%
  • Rearing 50%

• GREENANIMO: STRENGTHENING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CAPACITY FOR GRAZING LIVESTOCK MEAT PRODUCTION IN BULGARIA THROUGH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

  Haskell, M. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Roehe, R. (CoI) & Lambe, N. (CoI)

  5/01/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Meat Production 100%
  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Meat Quality 63%
  • Innovation Capacity 50%
  • Personnel 50%

• Uplandia: Systems modelling for evidence-informed peatland policy

  Reed, M. (PI)

  21/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Peatland 100%
  • Peatlands 88%
  • England 66%
  • Ecosystem Service 44%
  • Carbon Finance 44%

• Resilient dairy: socio-technical innovation for dairy resilience and sustainability

  Reed, M. (PI) & Williams, A. (Researcher)

  7/12/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Soil Carbon 100%
  • Analytical Framework 100%
  • Coordinate 100%
  • Ecosystem Service 100%
  • Dairy Product 100%

• VWI Cambridge: Exploring Fundamental Values for the Valuing Water Initiative

  Glenk, K. (PI) & Schulz, C. (CoPI)

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Water Management 100%
  • Decision Making 60%
  • Case Study 40%
  • Kenya 40%
  • River Basin 40%

• EtT: Exploring the Twitterverse: Developing novel approaches to scaling the dissemination of expert knowledge on social media platforms in Scotland.

  Meador, E. (PI) & Creissen, H. (CoI)

  1/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Online Social Networks 100%
  • Social Medium Platform 66%
  • Twitter 66%
  • Best Practice 66%
  • Scientific Knowledge 66%

• IPM T&T: Environmental Land Management - Integrated Pest Management Test and Trial

  Creissen, H. (CoPI), Meador, E. (Researcher) & Evans, A. (Researcher)

  1/12/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Other

  • Integrated Pest Management 100%
  • Land Management 100%
  • Public Goods 81%
  • Field Margin 9%
  • Growers 9%

• Review of the Kilgallioch Windfarm Community Fund

  Glass, J. (CoPI) & Atterton, J. (PI)

  24/11/20 → 11/06/21

  Project: Research

• CalfQUOL: Development of a Health-Related Quality of Life Tool for Bovine Respiratory Disease in Calves

  Haskell, M. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoPI) & Mason, C. (CoI)

  1/11/20 → 1/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Bovine Respiratory Disease 100%
  • Quality of Life 33%
  • Respiratory Tract Disease 33%
  • Focus Group 33%
  • Disease 20%

• Provision of a livestock enterprise costing and carbon footprint survey and analysis to provide benchmark information for cattle and sheep farmers in Scotland.

  Riddell, I. (PI), Hill, G. (PI), Bothwell, C. (PI), Inman, G. (CoPI) & Sykes, A. (CoPI)

  1/10/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Carbon Footprint 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions 100%

• Development and validation of animal-based welfare indicators for a Precision-Livestock Farming approach to improving the welfare of small ruminants

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/20 → 30/09/24

  Project: PhD project

• Mixed

  Watson, C. (PI) & Topp, K. (CoI)

  European Commission

  1/10/20 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Soil Health 100%
  • Agroforestry 100%
  • Mixed Farming 100%
  • Farming System 100%

• EWSFS: Provision of services to analyse the potential economic effects of the Sustainable Farming Scheme on the agricultural sector in Wales

  Thomson, S. (PI)

  16/09/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Wales 100%
  • Economic Analysis 100%
  • Payment Scheme 100%
  • Information System 75%
  • Land Capability 75%

• Novel approaches to improving calf health: new technology and data analytics

  Riley, B. (PhD Student), Haskell, M. (Supervisor), Dickinson, J. (Technician) & McCubbin, I. (Technician)

  14/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: PhD project

  • Feeding Behavior 100%
  • Birth Weight 82%
  • Dairy Breeds 70%
  • Milk Replacer 70%
  • Bovine Respiratory Disease 58%

• WWC: The Winter Wheat Challenge

  Bingham, I. (PI), Hilton, A. (CoI), Reynolds, A. (CoI) & Hoad, S. (CoI)

  1/09/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Common Wheat 100%
  • Decision Making 100%
  • Field Plots 50%
  • Fertilizer Rates 50%
  • Crop Management 50%

• Insights Offered by Behavioural Science to Improve the Perception of and Positive Action on Protected Areas

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  Scottish Natural Heritage

  25/08/20 → 1/02/21

  Project: Research

• Dairy Sensors: Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health and welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for Dairy Products

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Ferguson, H. (Researcher), Haskell, M. (CoI) & Shewbridge Carter, L. (Researcher)

  1/08/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Product 100%
  • Equipment 62%
  • Animal Welfare 41%
  • Cow 41%
  • Milk Yield 16%

• A high-level scoping review farming, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage - cereals and oilseeds

  Eory, V. (PI)

  1/07/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Rural poverty with a focus on children and young people: an evidence review

  Glass, J. (PI)

  1/06/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Commercial

  • Rural Areas 100%

• Cross SEFARI Integration Capacity

  Jones, S. (PI)

  James Hutton Limited

  1/05/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• NZL: Carbon net zero & UK livestock systems

  Rees, B. (PI), Buckingham, S. (Researcher), Dewhurst, R. (Researcher), Sykes, A. (PI) & Bell, J. (PI)

  1/05/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Net Zero 100%
  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Land Use 50%

• Place based policy case studies 2020-21

  Meador, E. (CoI), Maynard, C. (CoI), Atterton, J. (PI) & Glass, J. (CoI)

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  1/04/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Rural Areas 100%
  • Private Sector 100%
  • Health Care Delivery 80%
  • Local Development 80%
  • Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development 80%

• Study of the adoption of GHG mitigation technologies by EU livestock farmers

  Eory, V. (PI) & MacLeod, M. (CoI)

  IPSOS IBERIA

  1/04/20 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding the experiences of peatland restoration in Scotland

  Novo, P. (PI), Glenk, K. (CoI), Maynard, C. (CoI) & Sposato, M. (CoI)

  1/04/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Peatland 100%
  • Peatlands 100%
  • Upscaling 25%

• The effect of maternal investment on milk yield in dairy cattle

  Haskell, M. (Supervisor)

  1/04/20 → 30/04/21

  Project: PhD project

  • Milk Yield 100%
  • Dairy Cattle 100%
  • Bovine 100%

• CT Scanner 20/21 CCP

  McLean, K. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/04/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Sires 100%
  • Genetic Correlation 100%
  • Intramuscular Fat 100%
  • Synapomorphy 100%
  • Carcass Characteristics 75%

• RESAS Rd2.2.8

  Sandilands, V. (PI) & Baker, L. (CoI)

  1/04/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Other

• Assessment of large-scale plant biosecurity risks to Scotland from non-specialist and online horticultural sales

  Toma, L. (PI)

  Forestry Commission England

  30/03/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• AFIC SEFARI fellowship

  Jones, S. (PI)

  2/03/20 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

• Determining how cognitive ability and affective state impact assessment strategies during aggressive contests to improve pig welfare after regrouping

  Turner, S. (PI), Brims, M. (CoI) & Futro, A. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  2/03/20 → 1/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Animal Welfare 44%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 41%
  • Farm Animal 35%
  • Sus Scrofa 35%

• Improving access to nutritious and sustainable foods through increasing the production and consumption of underutilised crops in Nepal

  Akaichi, F. (PI)

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  1/03/20 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Sefari Spark_Developing guidelines and policies for sustainable grassland systems

  Cole, L. (PI), March, M. (CoI), Watson, C. (CoI), McCracken, D. (CoI) & Maynard, C. (CoI)

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  20/02/20 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

• Interactions between Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use and Farm Practices for the Common Agricultural Policy

  Eory, V. (PI)

  Wageningen University & Research

  12/02/20 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• Historical changes in climate/snow cover in Cairngorm Mountains and to estimate future response

  Spencer, M. (PI)

  7/02/20 → 9/03/20

  Project: Research

• Attitudes towards land reform: Public priorities and focus for the future

  McMorran, R. (PI), Craigie, M. (CoI), Maynard, C. (CoI), Thomson, S. (CoI) & Glass, J. (CoI)

  Ipsos MORI

  5/02/20 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Land Reform 100%
  • Scottish Government 33%
  • Land Use 33%
  • Mixed-Methods 33%

• Improving the sustainability and competitive position of the UK beef industry through selective breeding - meat quality extension (of 2090196)

  Wall, E. (PI) & Pritchard, T. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/02/20 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Meat Quality 100%
  • Farm Animal 66%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%

• Identifying research priorities for the use of Agri-tech to improve productivity efficiency and sustainability in beef & sheep livestock production systems

  Bowen, J. (PI)

  James Hutton Limited

  1/02/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Early life biomarker predictors of future production, health, welfare and longevity in dairy cattle

  Banos, G. (PI)

  Hannah Dairy Research Foundation

  1/01/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Effect of Alternative chemistry on Rcc growth

  Havis, N. (PI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Fortune, J. (CoI), Kasperek, C. (CoI) & Swaney, J. (CoI)

  UPL Europe Ltd

  16/12/19 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

• Keeping Cow with Calf: bringing innovation to dairying in Scotland

  Haskell, M. (PI) & Ferguson, H. (Researcher)

  Scottish Government

  2/12/19 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

  • Early Lactation 100%
  • Milk Yield 100%
  • Cow 100%
  • Milking Parlor 100%
  • Lactation Number 20%

• Review of legislation (RWF)

  Dixon, L. (PI)

  Rabbit Welfare Fund

  1/12/19 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• CTLGH_Dairy Cow Improvement, Rwanda. JOA.

  Mrode, R. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/12/19 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

• Review of evidence on Integrated Pest Management

  Creissen, H. (PI) & Evans, A. (CoI)

  RSK ADAS Ltd

  17/10/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research