Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 7 Not started
• 118 Active
• 233 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Innovation and collaboration to mitigate food waste in the fruit and vegetable supply chain

  Toma, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Networks for risk management in developing dairy sectors

  Barnes, A.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Development of an integrated metagenomic analysis system using the microbial community, their genes and biological mechanisms to predict cattle phenotype

  Roehe, R.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Do UK grasslands have the ability to sequester more carbon? Assessment of stability and resilience to changing climate and management

  Buckingham, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• The effect of the presence or absence of maternal care on the neurobiological, emotional and cognitive development of lambs

  Dwyer, C.

  1/10/18 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Leatherjacket Biocontrol

  Cole, L.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• EmotiPig, Investigating automatic detection of emotion in biometrically identified pig faces using machine learning

  Baxter, E., Rutherford, K., Farish, M., Smith, M. L. & Hansen, M. F.

  B.B.S.R.C.

  1/10/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Support to economic modeling of agriculture

  Shrestha, S. & Vosough Ahmadi, B.

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Rat tickling as a model to understand and improve positive welfare in confined animals

  Lawrence, A.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Cattle breeding choices : reconciling productivity, sustainability and food security objectives

  Glenk, K. & Eory, V.

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Gill health in Scottish farmed salmon

  Reeves, A., Gunn, G., Stirling, J., Pearce, M., Boerlage, A., Humphry, R., Hutchinson, I. & Baughan, J.

  University of Stirling

  10/08/18 → 9/02/22

  Project: Research

• Host pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)

  Sparks, N.

  B.B.S.R.C.

  1/08/18 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

• Legume SELECT: Science-driven evaluation of legume choice for transformed livelihoods

  Barnes, A.

  1/07/18 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

• Agronomic and disease control techniques to produce a profitable winter barley crop

  Creissen, H.

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/12/21

  Project: Research

• Nitrogen and sulphur fertiliser management to achieve grain protein quality targets of high yielding modern winter milling wheat

  Hoad, S.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Provision of agronomic trials for cultivation and use 2018-2023 Lot 2

  Hoad, S. & Walker, R.

  Scottish Government

  30/06/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Fungicide performance on wheat, barley & oilseed rape 2018-2022

  Burnett, F.

  11/06/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S. & Hutchings, M.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

  Barnes, A., Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Ferreira, J., Thompson, B., McCracken, D., Latto, D. & Spencer, M.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Database and reporting system to support Signet's Sheepbreeder and Beefbreeder Services

  Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Hamper, A., Wells, A., Brand, W. & Coffey, M.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

• Tailtech: developing an early warning system for pig tail biting

  D'Eath, R.

  Innovate UK (TSB QUARTERLY)

  1/04/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Identification and selection of targets and development of analytical tools to optimize breeding programmes in African chicken populations

  Banos, G., Sparks, N. & Coffey, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Agri CIEL - Re-defining nutrition standards for improving beef production efficiency

  Dewhurst, R., Miller, G. & Bowen, J.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Updating Nitrogen and Sulphur fertiliser recommendations for spring barley and potatoes

  Hoad, S., Sinclair, A., Bingham, I. & Crawford, C.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/03/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• SMARTCOW : An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector

  Dewhurst, R., Duthie, C., Ramsay, N., Dwyer, C., Ferguson, H., Flockhart, J., Haskell, M., Dickinson, J. & McCubbin, I.

  European Commission

  1/02/18 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

• CTLGH The contributions made by nutrition and genotype to resilience in poultry

  Sparks, N.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/01/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Livestock's role in food system resilience in remote, upland regions

  McCracken, D., Shrestha, S., Thomson, S., Holland, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Barnes, A. & McLaren, A.

  B.B.S.R.C.

  1/11/17 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

• Horse Welfare within Traveller/Gypsy communities: an ethnic group often under-represented in horse welfare research

  Coombs, T.

  The Horse Trust

  1/10/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Modelling short & long-term resilience and efficiency of cattle production

  Wall, E. & Eory, V.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Dairy 4 Future - Propagating innovations for more resilient dairy farming in the Atlantic area

  Dewhurst, R., Ramsay, N., March, M., Hargreaves, P. & Ferguson, H.

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Archibald, I. & Rees, B.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  4/09/17 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Orphan crops: conventional breeding versus genomic selection approaches. Understanding Issues and options to support food and nutritional security in Africa

  Hoad, S. & Bancic, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Can technological solutions deliver positive welfare benefits in housing for dairy cattle?

  Haskell, M.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Sensitivity of ideal protein nutrition to gut health

  Houdijk, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Precision breeding for piglet survival and the use of microbiome information to improve wellness in pigs

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Behavioural Signatures of Parasitism

  Smith, L.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Can the survival of lambs from larger litters be improved?

  Dwyer, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Predicting Lyme Disease risk: Improving the knowledge of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi dynamics in Scotland through structured data collection and citizen science

  Cardoso Ribeiro, R. & Eze, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Arthropod conservatin in agricultural landscapes : modelling farmer decision-making and biodiversity outcomes

  Barnes, A.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/17 → 30/08/23

  Project: Research

• The significance of plant interactions in the design of breeding programmes

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

• Unravelling the biological basis for heterosis in cereals

  Hoad, S.

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Quantifying the social, economic and environmental consequences of changes in agricultural production in a spatial perspective

  Eory, V.

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Linking food system shocks with conflict and migration: using historical evidence to predict resilience and vulnerabilities

  Toma, L.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/07/17 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Soils research to deliver Greenhouse Gas Removals and Abatement Technologies (SOILS-R-GGREAT)

  MacLeod, M., Rees, B., Eory, V., Sykes, A. & Moran, D.

  NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

  20/06/17 → 19/06/21

  Project: Research

• Working for Waders

  McCracken, D.

  23/05/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Genomic management tools to optimise resilience and efficiency GenTORE

  Wall, E., Eory, V. & Bunning, H.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Phenomics and genomics of behavioural and growth traits in group-housed pigs

  Turner, S., Roehe, R., Camerlink, I. & D'Eath, R.

  Michigan State University

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research