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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• Finished

  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

• 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

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  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%

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/03/23

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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%

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/09/15 → 30/06/20

  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%

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• 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%
  • Farm Animal 66%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Greenhouse Gas 66%

• 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%

• Sustainable environmental remediation of abandoned lead mining sites

  Griffiths, B. (PI)

  1/11/14 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• UK: Efficiency of Information impact on food waste behaviour

  Toma, L. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 2/12/19

  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

• Sustainability of nutrient cycling processes associated with arable land management

  Griffiths, B. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 30/09/18

  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%

• 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

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

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  1/04/14 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Modelling effects of climate change on intensive animal production systems

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  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%

• Improving the control of liver fluke infection in cattle in the UK - FLAG

  Tongue, S. (PI), Stott, A. (CoI), Weldegebriel, H. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Milne, C. (CoI), Gomes, C. (CoI), Eze, J. (CoI), Henry, M. (CoI) & Barratt, A. (CoI)

  1/10/13 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Using multi-criteria analysis to improve the sustainability of Scottish farming systems

  Watson, C. (PI)

  1/10/13 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

  • Nutrient Management 100%
  • Surface Water 100%
  • Nutrient Balance 66%
  • Nutrient Budget 66%
  • Agricultural Catchment 66%

• Enhancing the soil food web to control soil dwelling pests of field vegetables

  Evans, A. (PI)

  1/10/13 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research