Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2031

• 1 Curtailed
• 11 Not started
• 192 Active
• 606 Finished

Projects per year

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  Pathways of Diffuse Pollution to the Water Environment; state of knowledge and communicating best practice

  Cloy, J. (PI), Hargreaves, P. (CoI), Murphy, S. (CoI), Kerr, S. (CoI) & Audsley, R. (CoI)

  11/02/19 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Runoff 100%
  • Pollutant Load 50%
  • Soil Sampling 50%
  • Land Management 50%
  • Diffuse Pollution 50%

• Carrots and Sticks: incentives to conserve Hilsa fish in Myanmar

  Glenk, K. (PI) & Novo, P. (CoI)

  5/02/19 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Myanmar 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • Hilsa 100%
  • Gender Disparity 50%
  • Value Theory 50%

• Impact of animal breeding on farm economics and on reduction of GHG emissions

  MacLeod, M. (PI)

  1/02/19 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

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

  Wall, E. (PI)

  1/02/19 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

• Enabling livestock-keepers to eliminate sleeping sickness (ENABLES)

  Auty, H. (PI)

  1/02/19 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• Islands Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series

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

  SFC GRANT

  1/02/19 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • New Zealand 100%
  • Public Sector 100%
  • Canada 100%
  • England 100%
  • Northern Ireland 100%

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

  Houdijk, J. (PI), Whyte, F. (CoI), Sparks, N. (CoI) & Galgano, S. (Researcher)

  Innovate UK

  1/02/19 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Broiler 100%
  • Precursor 83%
  • Antimicrobial Resistance 83%
  • Jejunum 58%
  • Cecum 58%

• Adoption of Nutrient MGT plans by EU Farmers & the impact on GHG Emissions

  Eory, V. (PI) & Barnes, A. (CoI)

  IPSOS IBERIA

  23/01/19 → 22/02/20

  Project: Research

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

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  15/01/19 → 29/02/24

  Project: Research

  • Indonesia 100%
  • Lake Ecosystem 50%
  • Interdisciplinary Research 50%
  • Common Pool Resources 50%
  • Agriculture 50%

• Provision of analysis to quantify non-CO2 abatement in the UK agriculture sector by 2050, with an emphasis on the potential for innovative and novel measures

  Eory, V. (PI), Rees, B. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI) & Wall, E. (CoI)

  3/01/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Provision of data analysis service to the pig health scheme

  Pearce, M. (PI), Baughan, J. (CoI), Henry, M. (CoI) & Humphry, R. (CoI)

  AHDB Pork

  2/01/19 → 21/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Slaughterhouse 66%
  • Slaughter 33%

• An integrated approach to tackling drug resistance in livestock trypanosomes

  Auty, H. (PI)

  1/01/19 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Nagana 100%
  • Drug Resistance 100%
  • Trypanosoma 100%
  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Animal Trypanosomiasis 100%

• Predicting TB status of dairy cows from mid infra-red spectral data using machine learning

  Coffey, M. (PI) & Denholm, S. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/01/19 → 6/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Cows 100%
  • Dairy Cattle 71%
  • Cow 47%
  • Infrared Spectroscopy 38%
  • Herd 35%

• Assistance in Developing criteria on Agricultural activities to be included in the EU sustainable finance taxonomy

  Eory, V. (PI)

  20/12/18 → 15/06/19

  Project: Research

• Evaluating the significance of agri-supply chains in rural economies

  Thomson, S. (PI), Revoredo Giha, C. (CoI), Atterton, J. (CoI), Jones, S. (CoI) & Barnes, A. (CoI)

  20/12/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Input-Output Table 100%
  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Rural Economy 100%

• COST- Standardising out-put based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the EU

  Gunn, G. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  13/12/18 → 13/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Bovine 100%
  • Nonunion 66%
  • Leucosis 66%
  • Paratuberculosis 66%
  • Enzootic 66%

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

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

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  2/12/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Sole 100%
  • Holstein 69%
  • Cow 68%
  • Claws 67%
  • Horn 66%

• Assessment of the welfare of calves following long-distance transport from Scotland to Spain

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Mitchell, M. (CoI) & Farish, M. (CoI)

  1/12/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Grass bio-processing alternative protein for human consumption

  Lawson, D. (PI)

  1/12/18 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• The impact of mandatory written dairy contracts In European countries and their potential application in Scotland

  Revoredo Giha, C. (PI), Akaichi, F. (CoI) & Costa Font, M. (CoI)

  26/11/18 → 24/05/19

  Project: Research

• STEM database for Scottish Secondary Schools (Data-4-Schools)

  March, M. (PI)

  12/11/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Developing a Scottish canine registry: a scoping and feasibility study

  Reeves, A. (PI), Tongue, S. (CoI) & Henry, M. (CoI)

  1/11/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Developing an evaluation culture and capacity within SRUC

  Milne, C. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 31/07/19

  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

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

  Meador, E. (PI)

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Exploring the gender pay gap in rural Scotland

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

  1/11/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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%

• SMARTER - SMAll RuminanTs breeding for Efficiency and Resilience

  Conington, J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Genome-Wide Association Study 94%
  • Sheep Meat 78%
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 63%
  • Scottish Blackface 58%

• 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%

• Disease mapping

  Havis, N. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Building Scottish ISCF capacity to meet the challenge of improving feed efficiency of sheep

  Lambe, N. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/07/19

  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

• 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

• Leatherjacket Biocontrol

  Cole, L. (PI)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/18 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

• 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%

• BREXIT EU consequential activity

  McCracken, D. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  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%

• Microbiological survey of minced beef on retail sale in Scotland

  Tongue, S. (PI), Eze, J. (CoI), Humphry, R. (CoI), Evans, J. (CoI), Webster, C. (CoI) & Trail, A. (CoI)

  Food Standards Scotland

  1/10/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • Minced Beef 100%
  • Food Pathogen 100%
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction 100%
  • Campylobacter 66%
  • Salmonella 66%

• 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

• 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

• Investigation of the impact soil pH management has on Scotland?s grassland productivity

  Walker, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  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

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• Evaluation of the effect of novel products on fermentation in a short term and long term incubation with rumen fluid

  Ramos-Morales, E. (PI)

  27/09/18 → 15/02/19

  Project: Research