Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2031

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

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• Finished

  Policy Relevant Projects Funding for EAEDC

  Atterton, J. (PI)

  SFC GRANT

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Evaluation of the Griffin and Calliachar Enterprise Fund

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

  20/02/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Carcass trait phenotype feedback for genomic selection in sheep

  Mucha, S. (CoI), Lambe, N. (PI) & Conington, J. (CoPI)

  1/02/17 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Texel 61%
  • Computed Tomography 59%
  • Sheep Meat 47%
  • Sires 46%

• BarkCure : Condensed tannins from Norwegian pine and spruce bark - antiparasitic effects and potential commercial exploitation

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  Norsk Senter for Okologisk Landbruk

  6/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Antiparasitic Activity 100%
  • Condensed Tannin 100%
  • Picea Abies 80%
  • Weight Gain 80%
  • Oocyst 80%

• Managing resistance evolving concurrently against two or more modes of action, to extend the effective life of new fungicides

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

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  4/01/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Soils Programme Research Partnership: Management for Soil Biology and Health

  Jones, S. (CoI), Hargreaves, P. (CoI), Watson, C. (PI) & Parker, J. (CoI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Advanced technologies for efficient crop management: a participatory approach with application at farm scale

  Hoad, S. (PI), Borthwick, F. (CoI), Rees, B. (CoI), Barnes, A. (CoI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Florence, A. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), Miller, S. (CoI), Fortune, J. (CoI), Vigors, B. (CoI), Domalazek, N. (CoI), Rzepka, A. (CoI) & Redpath, R. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/12/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Leaf Area Index 100%
  • Common Wheat 66%
  • Crop Management 50%
  • Cropland 50%
  • Plant Breeding 50%

• STOC-Free: A surveillance analysis tool

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

  Univeristy of Utrecht

  1/12/16 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Herd 100%
  • Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus 1 89%
  • Europeans 47%
  • Bayesian 37%
  • Parameter Estimate 37%

• extension to Solutions for sustainable lamb production for more taste & less waste to increase food security in the UK and beyond

  Lambe, N. (PI)

  1/11/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Understanding ecosystem stocks and tipping points in UK peatlands

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  1/11/16 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Willingness to Pay 100%
  • Peatland 75%
  • Willingness-to-Pay 65%
  • Welfare 54%
  • Choice Experiment 48%

• Understanding components of specific weight in barley grains - opportunities for improving grain quality and processing efficiency

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Grains 100%
  • Anthesis 100%
  • Plant Architecture 100%
  • Water Stress 30%
  • Malt 15%

• 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%

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. (PI) & Dellar, M. (PhD Student)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• The effectrs of stress on the ruminal microbial environment in beef cattle and its relationship to feed efficiency and methane emissions

  Turner, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Determining the fungicide resistance management strategy of minor UK crops using Botrytis as a model

  Havis, N. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Potential benefits of commercially available fungal endophytes on the control of the major wheat diseases

  Havis, N. (PI)

  1/10/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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

• Preventing respiratory disease in calves: optimising ventilation and thermal comfort and reducing microbial transmission

  Haskell, M. (PI)

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

  • Hyperthermia 100%
  • Dairy Breeds 100%
  • Body Temperature 100%
  • Liveweight Gain 100%
  • Wind Speed 53%

• 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

• Understanding short-term measurement techniques and proxies for methane emissions from cattle

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  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%

• 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

• The establishment and management of Ecological Focus Areas to enhance ecosystem services and integrated pest management

  Cole, L. (PI)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Breeding for disease resistance in sheep

  Conington, J. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/11/23

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• The implications of Brexit for rural Scotland Budget

  Atterton, J. (PI)

  1/08/16 → 31/07/19

  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

• 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

• 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

• Innovative Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Pig Production Efficiency

  Gomes, C. (PI), Gunn, G. (CoI), Henry, M. (CoI), Reeves, A. (CoI), Adam, K. (CoI), Cardoso Ribeiro, R. (CoI), Pearce, M. (CoI) & Humphry, R. (CoI)

  4/04/16 → 29/03/19

  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%

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• TANZANIA: Investigation of farmer-led breeding goals and strategies

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  2/02/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • Breed 100%
  • Dairy Cattle 100%
  • Semen 66%
  • Sires 66%
  • Cow 66%

• 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%

• 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

• 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%