Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2031

• 1 Curtailed
• 6 Not started
• 149 Active
• 657 Finished

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  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%

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• Stress effects on the ovine rumen microbiome

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/12/15 → 30/09/21

  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

• Investigations into behavioural and neural / cellular consequences of tooth resection in commercial piglets: implications for welfare

  Sandercock, D. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Calcitonin 50%
  • Tooth Extraction 50%
  • Polypeptide 50%
  • Piglet 50%

• 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

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Understanding satiety in broiler breeders during rearing and application to commercial diets

  D'Eath, R. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/15 → 30/06/25

  Project: PhD project

  • Feeds 100%
  • Broiler Breeders 100%
  • Hen 100%
  • Rams 50%
  • Hypothalamus 33%

• Whole farm modelling of specialist beef systems in Scotland and Ireland

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  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

• 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%

• Optimising cattle genotypes and systems in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase productivity and reduce GHG emissions

  Wall, E. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  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

• Oilseed rape and pollinators : the impact of variety on resource availability and pollination resilience

  Cole, L. (PI)

  21/09/15 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Multipurpose legumes in integrated crop-livestock systems in East Africa : Farmer's preferences and decision making

  Watson, C. (PI)

  1/09/15 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • Soil Erosion 100%
  • Farming System 100%
  • Calliandra 100%
  • Mucuna 66%
  • Sole 50%

• TANZANIA: The use of cow-side milk progesterone tests

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/09/15 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• Investigation of reproductive and health factors influencing breeding ewe fertility in hill flocks

  McEvoy, T. (PI)

  5/01/15 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• Improving the sustainability and competitive position of the UK beef industry through selective breeding

  Wall, E. (PI), Pritchard, T. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/01/15 → 30/07/19

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Greenhouse Gas 66%
  • Livestock Production 33%

• SUSDIET: Implementing sustainable diets in Europe

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

  1/12/14 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research

  • Europeans 100%
  • Food Choice 71%
  • Policy Analysis 28%
  • Animal Welfare 23%
  • Nutrition Economics 14%

• IRELAND: Understanding farmer decision making in relation to nutrient to improve knowledge transfer methodologies

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/11/14 → 30/03/19

  Project: Research

• Sustainable environmental remediation of abandoned lead mining sites

  Griffiths, B. (PI)

  1/11/14 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Sustainability of nutrient cycling processes associated with arable land management

  Griffiths, B. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

• Improved timing of curative blight fungicides for superior control of late blight and greater cost effectiveness

  Bain, R. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• UK: Efficiency of Information impact on food waste behaviour

  Toma, L. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 2/12/19

  Project: Research

• Impact of genetics and growth promoters on avian intestinal microbiota and health

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  1/10/14 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Increasing sow output through implementation of pre-weaning interventions to keep weak piglets alive OPTIPIG

  Baxter, E. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 29/08/18

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Piglet 66%
  • Artificial Rearing 50%
  • Birth Weight 50%
  • Behavioral Assessment 50%

• The economic value of Farm animal genetic resource in the Uk, Brazil and Malawi

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/09/14 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• Modelling Complex Social Systems in the Context of Coastal Ecosystem Services & Resource Management

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/14 → 31/01/24

  Project: PhD project

• Provision of a herbage trial to obtain Scottish data for UK National List value for cultivation and use assessments / Scottish recommended list purposes

  Lawson, D. (PI)

  Scottish Government

  1/04/14 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Provision of facilities and personnel for carcass evaluation and incubation of hatching eggs

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  1/04/14 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Maternal Traits in sheep breeding programmes

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• KENYA: Herd and animal level interventions for GHG emission mitigation

  MacLeod, M. (PI)

  6/01/14 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• Modelling effects of climate change on intensive animal production systems

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• DENMARK: Restricting the pathogenic effect on barley of the endophytic fungus Ramularia collo-cygni

  Havis, N. (PI), McGrann, G. (CoI), Mackenzie, A. (CoI) & Sjokvist, E. (CoI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• E. coli O157 super-shedding in cattle and mitigation of human risk

  Tongue, S. (PI)

  1/01/14 → 28/02/18

  Project: Research

  • Escherichia Coli O157:H7 100%
  • Bovine 80%
  • Herd 77%
  • Prevalence 77%
  • Escherichia Coli O157 75%