Veterinary & Animal Science

Projects

Projects per year 2013 2018 2019 2022 2026

• 8 Active
• 26 Finished

Projects per year

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  Rapid Evidence Assessments - Assessment of practices to reduce post-weaning diarrhoea in pigs

  Rodrigues da Costa, M., Nale, J., Botero Degiovanni, H. & Beechener, S.

  27/06/22 → 11/11/22

  Project: Research

  • diarrhea 100%
  • weaning 90%
  • swine 66%
  • synthesis 42%

• Fish Welfare Study: Net9 Offshore Aquaculture

  Boerlage, A. & Hutchinson, I.

  9/05/22 → 20/10/22

  Project: Research

  • aquaculture 100%
  • salmon 72%
  • fish 61%
  • physiology 57%

• Developing a zooplankton infection trial for Atlantic salmon

  Boerlage, A. & Reeves, A.

  9/05/22 → 9/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Scyphozoa 100%
  • gills 87%
  • zooplankton 57%
  • Salmo salar 57%
  • fish 37%

• EPIC IV: Scottish Government's Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks, 2022 - 2025 (EPIC IV)

  Gunn, G., Barnes, A., Reeves, A., Lawton, S., Tongue, S., Stirling, J., Rodrigues da Costa, M., Eze, J., Toma, L., Helgesen, I., Barratt, A., Sparks, N., Hutchinson, I. & Denniston, J.

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • animal diseases 100%
  • animal health 76%
  • disease control 42%
  • research policy 38%
  • disease surveillance 31%

• MI BICYCLE: Mitigating climate change by circular synergies between crop and livestock farms

  Watson, C., Topp, K. & Lamont, K.

  1/03/22 → 1/03/25

  Project: Research

  • coproducts 100%
  • farms 98%
  • livestock 90%
  • climate change 82%
  • crops 71%

• Data-driven control and prioritisation of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases (DECIDE)

  Boerlage, A. & Gunn, G.

  1/04/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

  • animal diseases 100%
  • disease control programs 91%
  • burden of disease 90%
  • prioritization 82%
  • veterinarians 67%

• Provision of data analysis service to the pig health scheme

  Pearce, M., Gunn, G., Baughan, J., Gomes, C., Henry, M. & Humphry, R.

  AHDB Pork

  2/01/19 → 21/12/22

  Project: Research

  • slaughterhouses 100%
  • swine 63%
  • slaughter 44%
  • lesions (animal) 39%

• Gill health in Scottish farmed salmon

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

  University of Stirling

  10/08/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • amoebic gill disease 100%
  • diagnostic specificity 93%
  • diagnostic sensitivity 89%
  • Salmo salar 88%
  • Gills 74%
• Finished

  Japan - Shared Challenges on Depopulation across Island Communities

  Atterton, J., Lamont, K., Gkartzios, M. & Dilley, L.

  7/03/22 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Japan 100%

• Provision of isolates and associated data from the existing archive of the Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College) Veterinary Services abattoir-based antimicrobial resistance surveys by SRUC Inverness staff.

  Tongue, S., Webster, C. & Foster, G.

  7/02/22 → 30/05/22

  Project: Research

  • genome 100%
  • food 96%
  • services 89%

• Pigdemic: Farmer-centric networks to control endemic pig diseases in the UK: using pleurisy as a case study

  Rodrigues da Costa, M., Pearce, M., Gunn, G., Berezowski, J., Reeves, A. & Beechener, S.

  1/11/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • pleurisy 100%
  • swine diseases 50%
  • farmers 36%
  • case studies 31%
  • control methods 17%

• Improving the Mental Health of Farmers

  Lamont, K., Henry, M., Humphry, R., Gunn, G. & Baughan, J.

  1/07/20 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Farmers 100%
  • Agriculture 99%
  • Mental Health 67%
  • Data Analysis 64%

• Research Economics and Biosecurity Assessments and Simulations for Livestock (Dairy, Camels, Sheep, and Goats) in the United Arab Emirates

  Reeves, A.

  United Arab Emirates University

  4/05/20 → 30/07/21

  Project: Research

• Quantitative Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Rural Scotland

  Wall, E. & Reeves, A.

  1/05/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Understanding the Relative Cost-effectiveness of Sea-lice Treatments for Farmed Salmon Production

  Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Reeves, A., Barratt, A., Leinonen, I. & Boerlage, A.

  1/08/19 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• LymeApp

  Eze, J., Gunn, G., Auty, H., MacEwan, C., Humphry, R., Lamont, K. & Anderson, H.

  ID MAPPS Ltd.

  30/07/19 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

• RESAS Centres of Expertise: EPIC

  Gunn, G., Toma, L., Tongue, S., Auty, H., Gomes, C., Eze, J., Sparks, N., Hutchinson, I., Reeves, A., Stirling, J., Barratt, A. & Barnes, A.

  RESAS

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • biosecurity 100%
  • Practice Management 99%
  • Scotland 96%
  • Ovum 85%
  • questionnaires 56%

• Statistical consulting and training - 2019-2021

  Humphry, R.

  NHS HIGHLAND

  1/04/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Cattle 53%
  • Fibrobacter 51%

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

  Baughan, J., Shrestha, S., Henry, M., Reeves, A., Lamont, K., Humphry, R., Tongue, S. & Gomes, C.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  14/02/19 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

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

  Auty, H.

  1/02/19 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• An integrated approach to tackling drug resistance in livestock trypanosomes

  Auty, H.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

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

  Gunn, G.

  SRUC internal funding

  13/12/18 → 13/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Cattle Diseases 100%
  • cattle diseases 87%
  • European Union 56%
  • Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis 52%
  • infectious bovine rhinotracheitis 50%

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

  Reeves, A., Tongue, S. & Henry, M.

  1/11/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Microbiological survey of minced beef on retail sale in Scotland

  Tongue, S., Eze, J., Humphry, R., Evans, J., Webster, C. & Trail, A.

  Food Standards Scotland

  1/10/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • minced beef 100%
  • Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli 90%
  • Red Meat 79%
  • Scotland 76%
  • food pathogens 72%

• Veterinary Epidemiology Consultancy: Assessing relationships between farmed salmon mortality and levels of known or putative pathogens of salmon

  Reeves, A.

  21/05/18 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• Developing digital KE resources for Lyme disease prevention in Scotland

  Eze, J., Gunn, G., Auty, H., McCann, C., Baughan, J. & Cardoso Ribeiro, R.

  1/12/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Cetacean Strandings 2017-2020

  Brownlow, A., ten Doeschate, M. & Davison, N.

  16/10/17 → 15/10/20

  Project: Research

  • Cetacean morbillivirus 100%
  • Fin Whale 98%
  • Morbillivirus Infections 91%
  • Bidens 87%
  • Globicephala melas 80%

• Atypical bovine morbillivirus infections in the Serengeti ecosystem

  Auty, H.

  1/10/17 → 30/09/20

  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

  • Citizen Science 100%
  • Ticks 70%
  • Scotland 66%
  • Ixodes ricinus 66%
  • Ixodes 36%

• STOC-Free: A surveillance analysis tool

  Gunn, G., Eze, J., Humphry, R., Henry, M., Gomes, C., Eze, J. & Henry, M.

  Univeristy of Utrecht

  1/12/16 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses 100%
  • Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 71%
  • herds 49%
  • bovine viral diarrhea 48%
  • Cattle Diseases 46%

• Innovative Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Pig Production Efficiency

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

  4/04/16 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

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

  Tongue, S.

  1/01/14 → 28/02/18

  Project: Research

  • Escherichia coli O157 100%
  • Cattle 88%
  • Shiga Toxin 51%
  • cattle 47%
  • herds 45%

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

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

  1/10/13 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research