Central Faculty

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2016 2017 2018 2019 2026

• 86 Active
• 253 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Review and evaluation of existing (or near-to-market) methane reducing feed additives and technologies, with associated (business and government) recommendations to deliver ‘best practice’, well-governed markets.

  Miller, G., Duthie, C., Newbold, J. & Eory, V.

  12/05/22 → 30/10/22

  Project: Research

• EPIC IV: Scottish Government's Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks, 2022 - 2025 (EPIC IV)

  Gunn, G., Barnes, A., Reeves, A., Lawton, S., Tongue, S., Stirling, J., Rodrigues da Costa, M., Eze, J., Toma, L., Helgesen, I., Barratt, A., Sparks, N., Hutchinson, I. & Denniston, J.

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • animal diseases 100%
  • animal health 76%
  • disease control 42%
  • research policy 38%
  • disease surveillance 31%

• Evaluation of procaine HCL local anaesthetic for control of pain associated with castration and tail docking in lambs.

  Rutherford, K.

  1/04/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • tail docking 100%
  • castration 69%
  • pain 66%
  • procaine 63%
  • local anesthetics 61%

• Promoting contest skill to reduce the welfare costs of animal agonistic interactions

  Turner, S., Arnott, G. & Briffa, M.

  1/03/22 → 1/03/25

  Project: Research

  • swine 100%
  • animals 97%
  • aggression 83%
  • testing 20%
  • stamens 14%

• MI BICYCLE: Mitigating climate change by circular synergies between crop and livestock farms

  Watson, C., Topp, K. & Lamont, K.

  1/03/22 → 1/03/25

  Project: Research

  • coproducts 100%
  • farms 98%
  • livestock 90%
  • climate change 82%
  • crops 71%

• Operationalising social competence and estimating its genetic and genomic basis to improve the welfare of pigs

  Turner, S.

  28/02/22 → 31/01/25

  Project: Research

  • pig breeding 100%
  • Biological Sciences 82%
  • phenotype 74%
  • swine 73%
  • genomics 71%

• FARMCARE: Farm interventions to control antimicrobial resistance

  Baxter, E., Farish, M. & Rutherford, K.

  14/02/22 → 13/02/25

  Project: Research

  • anti-infective agents 100%
  • antibiotic resistance 94%
  • swine diseases 89%
  • farms 86%
  • swine 83%

• Quantitative assessment of pain associated behaviours of male lambs (less than 1 week and 6-8 weeks old) in response to castration or tail docking with a new method (Clampeasy)

  Dwyer, C.

  1/02/22 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • tail docking 100%
  • pain assessment 78%
  • castration 69%
  • lambs 54%
  • farms 31%

• OptiMum: Identifying characteristics of a successful free farrowing sow

  Baxter, E.

  1/02/22 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

  • farrowing 100%
  • sows 55%
  • temperament 47%
  • peers 41%
  • gilts 37%

• Impacts of bacterial infection on livestock greenhouse gas emissions

  Fox, N.

  4/01/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Infection 100%
  • greenhouse gas emissions 95%
  • bacterial infections 95%
  • Livestock 93%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions 88%

• Refinement of tickling protocols to improve positive animal welfare in laboratory rats

  Lawrence, A.

  1/12/21 → 30/11/23

  Project: Research

  • protocols 100%
  • animal welfare 83%
  • rats 60%
  • refining 27%
  • stress response 20%

• Improving Reporting of Land Market Transactions

  McMorran, R.

  20/11/21 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Land Market 100%
  • Scotland 42%
  • Market Activity 31%
  • Market Data 28%
  • Buyers 15%

• Development of microRNA diagnostic test for Johnes disease

  Hall, S., Hutchings, M., Coffey, M. & Hanks, E.

  1/10/21 → 1/04/23

  Project: Research

  • microRNA 100%
  • paratuberculosis 92%
  • diagnostic techniques 67%
  • disease detection 39%
  • livestock 23%

• Dandelion : Dandelion Festival 2022

  Burnett, F., Rudman, H. & Vichos, R.

  1/10/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Other

  • festival 100%
  • social isolation 21%
  • budget 20%
  • staff 15%
  • experiment 14%

• Economics of curly tails – consumer preference and willingness to pay

  Akaichi, F.

  15/08/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • willingness to pay 79%
  • Pork 75%
  • Consumer Preferences 58%
  • Antibiotics 34%

• Genomic characterisation of North Ronaldsay sheep

  Banos, G. & Coffey, M.

  1/08/21 → 1/07/22

  Project: Research

  • sheep 100%
  • genomics 76%
  • genotype 43%
  • rare breeds 40%
  • weeds 39%

• Greenhouse Gas Removal by Accelerated Peat Formation

  Reed, M.

  4/05/21 → 3/11/25

  Project: Research

• Tropical peatland climate resilience: Transferring governance of Climate risks for poverty reduction in Indonesia, Peru and the Congo Basin

  Reed, M., Williams, A., Maynard, C. & Beechener, S.

  30/04/21 → 29/04/23

  Project: Research

• Review of opportunities for diversifying UK agriculture through investment in underutilised crops

  Watson, C. & Topp, K.

  1/04/21 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • cropping practice 100%
  • sustainability 75%
  • crop 72%
  • agriculture 72%
  • productivity 69%

• HoloRuminant: Understanding microbiomes of the ruminant holobiont.

  Dewhurst, R., Ferguson, H., Roehe, R. & Newbold, J.

  1/04/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

  • microbiome 100%
  • ruminants 88%
  • phenotype 24%
  • multiomics 18%
  • life events 17%

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

  Bingham, I., Reilly, Z. & Lindsay, P.

  1/03/21 → 3/03/23

  Project: Research

  • nutrient use efficiency 100%
  • spring barley 80%
  • fertilizers 79%
  • soil 75%
  • winter wheat 64%

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

  Turner, S., Vigors, B. & Akaichi, F.

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • Swine 91%
  • Livestock 67%
  • Farming 60%
  • United States of America 24%

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

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C., Roehe, R. & Lambe, N.

  5/01/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Bulgaria 100%
  • grazing intensity 96%
  • meat production 86%
  • livestock 61%
  • food production 30%

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

  Glenk, K. & Schulz, C.

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

  • water 100%
  • document 62%
  • valuation 57%
  • world 46%
  • decision making 40%

• 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., Hill, G., Bothwell, C., Inman, G. & Sykes, A.

  1/10/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Costing 100%
  • Online Databases 97%
  • Audit 91%
  • Carbon Footprint 87%
  • Cattle 85%

• WWC: The Winter Wheat Challenge

  Bingham, I., Hilton, A., Reynolds, A. & Hoad, S.

  1/09/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • agronomy 100%
  • funding 87%
  • decision making 80%
  • staff 77%
  • first-year student 65%

• Dairy_Core Evaluations

  Coffey, M., Tahir, U., Mrode, R., Krzyzelewski, T., Kaseja, K., Wells, A. & Cosso, M.

  AHDB/DAIRY CO

  1/04/20 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • Northern Africa 100%
  • Humidity 85%
  • Climate 83%
  • Heat-Shock Response 80%
  • dairy cattle 71%

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

  Turner, S., Futro, A. & Brims, M.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  2/03/20 → 1/03/23

  Project: Research

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

  Akaichi, F.

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  1/03/20 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Grass to Gas: Strategies to mitigate GHG emissions from pasture-based sheep emissions

  Conington, J.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Blunting the blows: using naturally-occurring variation in beak morphology to reduce pecking damage in laying hens

  Sandilands, V. & Struthers, S.

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

  • beak 100%
  • bones 69%
  • feather pecking 25%
  • hens 10%
  • phenotype 7%

• Climate Smart Cattle Farming: Development of novel technologies, solutions and systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in animal production systems

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Hargreaves, P. & Hoebe, P.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/03/23

  Project: Research

• Understanding the genetic basis for Ramularia resistance in barley

  Havis, N.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Technologies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of pasture-based cattle systems

  Dewhurst, R., Nicoll, L., Duthie, C., Broadbent, C., Miller, G., Bowen, J. & Ferguson, H.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/03/23

  Project: Research

• Low carbon farming: making carbon accounting relevant to farming and food productions

  Glenk, K., Eory, V. & Haroon, G.

  1/09/19 → 30/08/23

  Project: Research

• ‘Disease management and yield of winter barley grown under different tillage regimes

  Creissen, H.

  1/09/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Welsh Sheep Breeding Project

  Coffey, M., Id Lahoucine, S. & Kaseja, K.

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/08/19 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

• MEASURE: Environmental and economic impacts of improved antibiotics stewardship in poultry systems

  Toma, L., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S. & MacLeod, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/08/19 → 1/06/23

  Project: Research

  • anti-infective agents 100%
  • poultry 84%
  • economic impact 70%
  • supply chain 68%
  • marginal abatement cost 64%

• ChickenStress MCSA

  Sandilands, V.

  European Commission

  1/06/19 → 30/04/23

  Project: Research

• EGENES - Texel

  Coffey, M., Kaseja, K. & Id Lahoucine, S.

  The British Texel Sheep Society Ltd

  1/05/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Elucidating bovine host genomic links with rumen microbial genes to improve sustainably feed conversion efficiency using unique selection criteria

  Roehe, R. & Dewhurst, R.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Methane 61%
  • Cattle 38%
  • Microbial Genetics 37%

• Legume Gap: Increasing productivity and sustainability of European plant protein production by closing the grain legume yield gap

  Watson, C. & Topp, K.

  1/04/19 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • legumes 100%
  • faba beans 39%
  • legume protein 37%
  • beans 34%
  • farmers 34%

• Resilient people need resilient ecosystems in smart cities RESPiRES

  Novo, P.

  14/02/19 → 14/08/22

  Project: Research

• South Asian Nitrogen Hub

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K. & Begho, T.

  13/02/19 → 29/02/24

  Project: Research

  • Nitrogen 100%
  • Soil 91%
  • Nitrogen Cycle 89%
  • Asia 88%
  • nitrogen 71%

• Encapsulated antimicrobial precursors for non-antibiotic treatment of MDRO in poultry Principal

  Houdijk, J., Whyte, F. & Sparks, N.

  Innovate UK (TSB QUARTERLY)

  1/02/19 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Conception to consumption: Aligning farmers to consumers using modern data, decision support and precision agriculture technologies

  Wall, E.

  1/02/19 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

• Assessment of direct and indirect use values of Lake Maninjau's Environmental Services

  Glenk, K.

  University of Edinburgh

  15/01/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • cage culture 100%
  • Indonesia 57%
  • farming systems 51%
  • lakes 51%
  • lake 36%

• Aetiopathogenesis and genomic architecture of resistance to claw horn disruption lesions in dairy cattle

  Banos, G. & Coffey, M.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  2/12/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • sole ulcers 100%
  • Digital Dermatitis 66%
  • Ulcer 64%
  • lesions (animal) 54%
  • cows 49%

• SMARTER - SMAll RuminanTs breeding for Efficiency and Resilience

  Conington, J. & Mucha, S.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research

  • fecal egg count 100%
  • sheep meat 99%
  • sheep 92%
  • dairy goats 87%
  • Sheep 71%

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

  Turner, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research