Central Faculty

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2023 2031

• 123 Active
• 426 Finished

Projects per year

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

  Haskell, M. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

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

  Davidson, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/01/21

  Project: Research

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

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 31/08/23

  Project: PhD project

• Mathematical and statistical tools to quantify disease in aquaculture

  Davidson, R. (PI)

  REF Funding

  1/10/16 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

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

  Eory, V. (PI)

  1/10/16 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Demand-driven solutions to reduce aggression in pigs

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Animal Welfare 100%
  • Pig 100%
  • Pheromone 33%
  • Farm Animal 16%

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

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

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

  Roehe, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 1/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Feed Conversion 100%
  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbial Gene 100%
  • Thermal Diffusion 100%

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

  Revoredo Giha, C. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

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

  Banos, G. (PI)

  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. (PI)

  1/09/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

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

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Mason, C. (CoI), Haskell, M. (CoI), Parker, J. (CoI) & McCubbin, I. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Calves 100%
  • Bovine Respiratory Disease 100%
  • Dairy Breeds 20%
  • Precision Agriculture 20%
  • Starter Diets 20%

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

  Roehe, R. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  1/09/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Rumen 90%
  • Metagenome 70%
  • Beef Cattle 68%
  • Microflora 53%

• The implications of Brexit for rural Scotland Budget

  Atterton, J. (PI)

  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. (PI)

  1/08/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

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

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/07/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

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

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

  European Commission

  1/07/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Pregnancy Rate 40%
  • Dairy Sheep 40%
  • Lambing 20%
  • Grassland 20%

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

  Havis, N. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI), Burnett, F. (CoI), Laing, A. (CoI) & Fortune, J. (CoI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

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

  Barnes, A. (PI), Alexander, P. (CoI), Silva, R. (CoI), Moran, D. (CoI) & MacLeod, M. (CoI)

  9/05/16 → 8/05/19

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of British Limousin Cattle Society Data

  Kaseja, K. (PI), Moore, K. (CoI) & Wells, A. (CoI)

  1/04/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• IMAGE Innovative management of animal genetic resources.

  Barnes, A. (PI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  1/04/16 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

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

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

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

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

• Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Lawrence, A. (CoI), Dixon, L. (CoI), Mackay, J. (CoI), Wemelsfelder, F. (CoI) & Haskell, M. (CoI)

  14/03/16 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. (PI), Conington, J. (CoI), Lambe, N. (CoI), Wall, E. (CoI) & Topp, K. (CoI)

  1/03/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Sheep 100%
  • Climate Change 77%
  • Genetic Correlation 55%
  • Animal Performance 50%
  • Europeans 44%

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

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  5/01/16 → 31/07/23

  Project: PhD project

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

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  5/01/16 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Ramularia 100%
  • Swan 100%
  • Leaf Spot 100%
  • Host Resistance 100%
  • Cytokinin 33%

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

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

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

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Agricultural Soil 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Common Wheat 100%
  • Cropping System 66%
  • Emissions 55%

• Agri-Tech in China Network + Newton Fund

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Stott, A. (CoI)

  1/01/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

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

  Wall, E. (PI), Hill, D. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  1/12/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/03/23

  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. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

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

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 29/05/20

  Project: Research

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

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

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

  Khattak, F. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

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

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Modelling the dynamics of monogastric gut microbiota

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Microflora 100%
  • Metabolite 100%
  • Pig 100%
  • Dynamics 25%
  • Synbiotics 8%

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

  D'Eath, R. (PI)

  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. (PI), Yoxall, T. (CoI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/08/15 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

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

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/07/15 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Developing sustainable management methods for club root

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

  1/06/15 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J. (PI)

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of beef cattle and sheep

  Coffey, M. (PI), Krzyzelewski, T. (CoI), Moore, K. (CoI), Kaseja, K. (CoI) & Stainton, J. (CoI)

  BASCO DATA LTD

  1/04/15 → 1/07/20

  Project: Research

• PrecisionBeef

  Ross, D. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Hyslop, J. (CoI), Rooke, J. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  1/04/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Feeds 85%
  • Feeding Behavior 64%
  • Feed Efficiency 42%
  • Support Vector Machine 40%

• Genomic predictions of mastitis resistance in dairy goats using computational genomics

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/04/15 → 30/03/18

  Project: Research

  • Texel 100%
  • Breeding Value 87%
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 83%
  • Sheep Meat 74%
  • Genome-Wide Association Study 74%

• IRELAND: Scaling reactive N mitigation in grassland systems

  Rees, B. (PI)

  1/04/15 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • Nitrous Oxide 100%
  • Aerial Photography 100%
  • Emissions 100%
  • Grassland 100%
  • Excreta 100%

• The BUG consortium Building upon the genome: Using H. contortus genomic resources to develop novel interventions to control endemic GI parasites

  Milne, C. (PI), Stott, A. (CoI) & Pate, L. (CoI)

  REF Funding

  28/03/15 → 27/03/21

  Project: Research

• Validation of Lameness and Pain Biomarkers in Pigs

  Sandercock, D. (PI) & Hall, S. (PI)

  10/02/15 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• ENERWATER`

  Campbell, J. (PI) & Ross, D. (CoI)

  1/02/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research