Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
At the S&IF centre we aim to develop ways of producing food to make it safer, healthier and tastier. In essence, we are interested in all aspects of food quality from primary production right through to product development and processing.
SRUC has an extremely broad level of expertise, covering all production systems. Unique compared to other organisations, we encompass the complete pipeline from research and education in farming and food production right through to implementation and working with producers and stakeholders.
We now have the opportunity to bring together such expertise, which has historically remained in isolation, to enable larger, more complex questions about food quality to be addressed. This needs to be aligned with stakeholders in production, industry and public health to ensure the centre focuses on the most relevant issues.
We work across food chains with academic and industry partners to develop new ways of producing and processing food, to make it safer, healthier, more nutritious and tastier. We aim to do this in the context of ensuring a sustainable yet plentiful food supply to feed a growing global population.
Keywords
- Soil Science
- Insect Science
- Horticulture
- Plant Science
- Biotechnology
- Genetics
- Molecular Biology
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
- Bioengineering
- Chemical Health and Safety
- Process Chemistry and Technology
- Computer Science Applications
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Food Animals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Faical Akaichi
- Rural Economy Environment And Society, Rural Development & Food Marketing - Senior Lecturer
- Food Security Challenge Centre
- Scotland's Rural College - Senior Lecturer
Person: Academic contract that is research only
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Spiridoula Athanasiadou
- Animal And Veterinary Sciences, Disease Systems - Professor
- Food Security Challenge Centre
- Scotland's Rural College - Professor
Person: Academic contract that is research only
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Georgios Banos
- Animal And Veterinary Sciences, Livestock Breeding - Professor
- Food Security Challenge Centre
- Scotland's Rural College - Professor
Person: Academic contract that is research only
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MOSAEC: Mobilising Scotland’s assets in equitable ways for epidemic control
Holden, N. (PI)
1/09/24 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
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CLEAR: Collaborative Landscape planning for Enhanced Agrobiodiversity and Resilience (CLEAR)
Cole, L. (CoI), Watson, C. (PI) & Topp, K. (CoI)
1/03/23 → 28/02/26
Project: Research
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Sharing expertise to quantify and mitigate GHG in the agriculture and land use sector in Argentine and the UK
Holden, N. (PI)
30/06/22 → 29/06/25
Project: Research
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Detection of genetic variability in dairy cattle infectivity for bovine tuberculosis
Madenci, D., Sánchez-Molano, E., Winters, M., Mitchell, A., Coffey, M. P., Hadfield, J. D., Woolliams, J. A., Banos, G. & Doeschl-Wilson, A., Apr 2025, In: Journal of Dairy Science. 108, 4, p. 3835-3849 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the effects of dietary lysine and tryptophan on the social behaviour of pigs
Hewett, E., Zaragoza, L. E., Lewis, C., Houdijk, J., Doeschl-Wilson, A. & Turner, S., 2025, In: Journal of Animal Science. 103, 29 p., skaf030.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs
van Ittersum, M. K., Silva, J., Bommarco, R., Hijbeek, R., Lundin, O., Nandillon, R., Bergkvist, G., Menegat, A., Öborn, I., Soderholm-Emas, A., Stoddard, F., Vico, G., Vonk, W., Watson, C. & Maclaren, C., 2025, In: Global Change Biology. 100857.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Greenhouse gas and water chemistry data measured across the Tay estuary, Scotland, from 2009-2011
Pickard, A. E. (Creator), Skiba, U. M. (Creator), Carvalho, L. (Creator), Brown, A. M. (Creator), Heal, K. V. (Creator), Rees, R. M. (Creator), Harley, J. F. (Creator) & Pickard, A. (Contributor), Natural Environment Research Council, 2021
DOI: 10.5285/ec78b74e-631d-4bef-8c28-618b4dc0fffd, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ec78b74e-631d-4bef-8c28-618b4dc0fffd
Dataset
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Typology of Ecological Farms in the EU
Thompson, B. (Creator), Rega, C. (Creator) & D'Alberto, R. (Creator), Zenodo, 22 Feb 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4554683, https://zenodo.org/record/4554683
Dataset
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A dataset of genomes of non-O157 Shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with UK clinical disease, wild deer and food items
Holden, N. (Owner), Wynn, M. (Contributor) & Dallman, T. (Contributor), Unknown Publisher, 9 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.58073/SRUC.22240660.v1
Dataset
Prizes
Activities
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VTEC 2026 conference
Holden, N. (Organiser)
10 May 2026 → 13 May 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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PhD examination
Watson, C. (Examiner)
18 Mar 2025Activity: Qualification development/external examination types › External examiner (viva)
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European Agroecology Partnership (External organisation)
Watson, C. (Chair)
2025 → 2026Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Press/Media
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Farmers Weekly Question Time
2/03/23 → 8/03/23
1 item of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media
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Crustacean waste-based products to support future food production systems
Gupta, V. K.
16/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
Equipment
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Molecular Biology Suite
Holden, N. (Manager)
Food Security Challenge CentreFacility/equipment: Facility
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