Central Faculty

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2023 2031

• 1 Not started
• 108 Active
• 441 Finished

Projects per year

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  Identifying the 'hot' spots and 'not' spots of emergency and everyday resilience centres in Scotland

  Meador, E. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 1/05/19

  Project: Research

• Review of international experience of community, communal and municipal ownership of land

  Atterton, J. (PI) & McMorran, R. (CoI)

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Developing an evaluation culture and capacity within SRUC

  Milne, C. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Legumes Translated

  Revoredo Giha, C. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Costa Font, M. (CoI), MacPherson, L. (CoI), Houdijk, J. (CoI), Walker, R. (CoI), Hargreaves, P. (CoI), Lawson, D. (CoI), Newbold, J. (CoI) & Watson, C. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Arable Land 100%
  • Cropping System 97%
  • Pollinator 85%
  • Europe 85%
  • Nitrous Oxide 57%

• Exploring the gender pay gap in rural Scotland

  Meador, E. (CoI) & Atterton, J. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Network analysis- where do people in Scotland get their plant health information

  Meador, E. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Developing student enterprise: market challenge - selling wonky produce

  Milne, C. (PI)

  17/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Advancing performance on Scottish beef farms through improving body condition scoring skills

  Rutherford, K. (PI)

  SFC GRANT

  16/10/18 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

• Delivering clean growth through sustainable intensification

  Barnes, A. (PI), Carter, N. (CoI), Rees, B. (CoI), Eory, V. (CoI) & MacLeod, M. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  8/10/18 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • United Kingdom 50%
  • Incentives 50%
  • England 33%
  • Land Use 30%

• EmotiPig, Investigating automatic detection of emotion in biometrically identified pig faces using machine learning

  Baxter, E. (PI), Rutherford, K. (CoI), Farish, M. (CoI), Smith, M. L. (PI) & Hansen, M. F. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Face 50%
  • Automatic Detection 50%
  • Facial Recognition 50%
  • Cow 25%

• Do UK grasslands have the ability to sequester more carbon? Assessment of stability and resilience to changing climate and management

  Buckingham, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Innovation and collaboration to mitigate food waste in the fruit and vegetable supply chain

  Toma, L. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Brexit_Enhanced need for policy advice

  Barnes, A. (PI), Atterton, J. (CoI), Thomson, S. (CoI) & McCracken, D. (CoI)

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• The role of cognitive ability and affective state during aggressive encounters: implications for contest behaviour and animal welfare

  Turner, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Agri-EPI: project management services on behalf of Agri-EPI in relation to Massey University (New Zealand) projects

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Development of an integrated metagenomic analysis system using the microbial community, their genes and biological mechanisms to predict cattle phenotype

  Roehe, R. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

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

• Networks for risk management in developing dairy sectors

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • Kenya 100%
  • Ethiopia 100%
  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Data Transmission 33%
  • Smallholder 33%

• The effect of the presence or absence of maternal care on the neurobiological, emotional and cognitive development of lambs

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 30/09/23

  Project: PhD project

• Disease mapping

  Havis, N. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Chlamydospore 100%
  • Lamb 100%
  • Haemonchus contortus 100%
  • Supplementation 100%
  • Calluna vulgaris 100%

• Identifying the 'hot' spots and 'not' spots of emergency and everyday resilience centres in Scotland

  Barnes, A. (PI), Atterton, J. (CoI), Thomson, S. (CoI) & McCracken, D. (CoI)

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Variety trials for AHDB's Recommended List: trial crop - Winter wheat

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/09/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Cattle breeding choices : reconciling productivity, sustainability and food security objectives

  Glenk, K. (Supervisor) & Eory, V. (Supervisor)

  1/09/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: PhD project

• Activity of fungicides against Ramularia leaf spot

  Havis, N. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI) & Walker, R. (CoI)

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/09/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Rat tickling as a model to understand and improve positive welfare in confined animals

  Lawrence, A. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/18 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

• Application of B & G Label Products to Grass

  Lawson, D. (PI)

  15/08/18 → 1/12/19

  Project: Research

• SARIC Translation: Grassland Management

  Topp, K. (PI)

  Natural Environment Research Council

  1/08/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Grassland 100%
  • User Interface 100%
  • Simulation Model 100%
  • Lolium 100%
  • Nitrogen Mineralization 100%

• Nitrogen and sulphur fertiliser management to achieve grain protein quality targets of high yielding modern winter milling wheat

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Agronomic and disease control techniques to produce a profitable winter barley crop

  Creissen, H. (PI)

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/12/21

  Project: Research

• Provision of agronomic trials for cultivation and use 2018-2023 Lot 2

  Hoad, S. (PI) & Walker, R. (CoI)

  Scottish Government

  30/06/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Estimating the economic costs of bovine TB incidents on cattle farms in the high risk edge areas of England and Wales

  Barnes, A. (PI), Stott, A. (CoI), Toma, L. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Barratt, A. (CoI) & Hutchings, M. (CoI)

  18/06/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• To support the South Atlantic NCA project by providing ecosystem services valuation and Bayesian modelling expertise

  McVittie, A. (PI) & Glenk, K. (CoI)

  18/06/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• ICE Robotics Lying time curve

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

  1/06/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• migrant workers in scottish agriculture: a short film

  Atterton, J. (PI), McMorran, R. (CoI) & Jones, S. (CoI)

  14/05/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

  Barnes, A. (PI), Toma, L. (CoI), Shrestha, S. (CoI), Ferreira, J. (CoI), Thompson, B. (CoI), McCracken, D. (CoI) & Latto, D. (Other)

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Farming System 100%
  • Europeans 100%
  • Agricultural Policy 75%
  • Ecological Farming 62%
  • Agroforestry 50%

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI) & Hutchings, M. (CoI)

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Anthelmintic 100%
  • Gastrointestinal Nematodes 89%
  • Teladorsagia circumcincta 82%
  • Organic Farming 59%
  • Organic Farming System 54%

• Database and reporting system to support Signet's Sheepbreeder and Beefbreeder Services

  Krzyzelewski, T. (PI), Wells, A. (CoI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Animal Genetics 100%
  • Tissue Distribution 33%
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography 33%
  • Artificial Intelligence 33%

• CTLGH African cattle genomic reference resource, SNP assays, and signature of selections

  Wall, E. (PI) & Mwacharo, J. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Africans 85%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 85%
  • Dynamics 85%
  • Genetic Structure 85%

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

  Creissen, H. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Bain, R. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI), Paterson, L. (CoI), Evans, A. (CoI), Burnett, F. (CoI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Biosecurity 100%
  • Plant Health 100%
  • Case Study 40%
  • Plant Pests 20%
  • Horticulture 20%

• CTLGH Genetic and genomic evaluation delivery tools

  Wall, E. (PI), Mwacharo, J. (PI) & Mrode, R. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Africans 85%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 85%
  • Dynamics 85%
  • Genetic Structure 85%

• CTLGH Identification and selection of targets and development of analytical tools to optimize breeding programmes in African chicken populations

  Banos, G. (PI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Sparks, N. (CoI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Transcriptome 100%
  • Bird 100%
  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Locus 100%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 60%

• Bean breeding and Adoption in changing climates in post-conflict COlombia (BACO)

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Phaseolus vulgaris 100%
  • Climate Change 66%
  • Growers 50%
  • Common Bean 50%
  • Phaseolus vulgaris L. 16%

• Delivery of on farm education visits

  Conington, J. (PI), Gordon, J. (CoI), McLean, K. (CoI) & Steel, M. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

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

  Hoad, S. (PI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Bingham, I. (CoI), Hoebe, P. (CoI), Brennan, M. (CoI), Paterson, L. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Baddeley, J. (CoI), Miller, S. (CoI), Stanisz-Migal, M. (CoI), Taylor, J. (CoI), Harrison, B. (CoI), Baker, L. (CoI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Whyte, F. (CoI), Bain, R. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI), Laing, A. (CoI), Griffiths, B. (CoI), Watson, C. (CoI), Evans, A. (CoI), Burnett, F. (CoI), Irvine, S. (CoI), Lawson, D. (CoI), Havis, N. (CoI), Creissen, H. (CoI), Dussart, F. (CoI), Houdijk, J. (CoI), Walker, R. (CoI) & Swaney, J. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Tailtech: developing an early warning system for pig tail biting

  D'Eath, R. (PI)

  Innovate UK

  1/04/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Tail 100%

• Physiological characterization of heat-tolerant bean genotypes in simulated future environments to enhance postconflict regional development

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Innovations in aquaculture: Delivering operational methods for the control of infectious disease

  Hutchings, M. (PI) & Davidson, R. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscape, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Silvopastoral Systems 100%
  • Farm Animal 60%
  • Agroforestry 50%
  • Sweep Nets 50%
  • Hemiptera 50%

• The development of an alternative method to high concentration CO2 for the commercial stunning of pigs

  Baxter, E. (PI), Akaichi, F. (CoI) & Farish, M. (CoI)

  19/03/18 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

  • Hypoxia 100%
  • Carbon Dioxide 80%
  • Sclera 75%
  • Physiological Response 75%
  • Pig 75%

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. (PI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research