SRUC

BioSS consultancy & collaboration information for SRUC

Various BioSS staff work with SRUC researchers to provide general consultancy support and collaboration depending on science application area and/or location. In some circumstances you may be referred to other BioSS staff to benefit from their specialised quantitative skills or experience in particular application areas. More detailed information is shown below, including named BioSS contacts for RESAS Strategic Research Programme projects.

Announcements

BioSS run statistics training courses. For our course timetable see here. Please click here to book onto these courses and here to register interest in a course. 

Consultancy & Collaboration

Please contact appropriate BioSS staff by email (see below) with a brief explanation of your requirements including funding. They will either deal with the query themselves or they may pass you to another member of BioSS staff with availability and the quantitative skills required or familiarity with your application area.

For exclusively RESAS Strategic Research Programme work there is no charge at the point of contact. For other work we need to be costed explicitly, but please do contact us for initial discussions about your interests. There is no charge for this.

BioSS staff may arrange to meet with you at your location or elsewhere, or we may arrange a video conference meeting depending on availability, time scales and your location.

Scheduled Visits to SRUC Locations

Sarah Brocklehurst SRUC Bush Roslin Institute Building Wednesday pm: 9th April, Tuesday 29th April.

Sarah Brocklehurst visits SRUC Kings Buildings and Bush Roslin Institute Building frequently and other sites by appointment.

Ian Hunt is based at BioSS at King's Buildings.

Please contact appropriate BioSS staff (see below) to arrange meetings or visits to your site.

Training

BioSS provide a range of training courses some of which are online and some face to face at SRUC or other locations. If there is enough demand we may schedule a course to suit you. For more information on training please see our pages on BioSS training.

Contacts for Consultancy & Collaboration

Sarah Brocklehurst is the main contact for research scientists at SRUC. Some more contacts by science area and location are given below followed by the BioSS contacts for the SRUC RESAS funded projects.

SRUC Application Area

Animal Health & Welfare Sarah Brocklehurst Giles Innocent 

Livestock Production & Emissions Sarah Brocklehurst Ian Hunt

SRUC Animal Experiments Committee (AEC) Sarah Brocklehurst Ian Hunt

Plant, Crop and Soils Science Ian Hunt

Economics and Social Science Ian Hunt

Bio-Informatics Claus-Dieter Mayer

Mathematical Modelling Helen Kettle

EPIC Centre of Expertise Giles Innocent

Other Application Areas Sarah Brocklehurst Ian Hunt

SRUC Location

Aberdeen Ian Hunt 

Auchincruive Sarah Brocklehurst

Edinburgh: Bush, Roslin Institute Building Sarah Brocklehurst Ian Hunt

Edinburgh: King's Buildings Ian Hunt

Kirkton Sarah Brocklehurst

Barony Sarah Brocklehurst

Inverness Giles Innocent

Elsewhere Sarah Brocklehurst

BioSS contacts for RESAS Projects

Giles Innocent     SRUC-A2-5 Sheep and Cattle traceability: the impact of environmental & other factors in Scotland on ear tag loss

Giles Innocent     SRUC-A2-6 Camelids (llamas/alpacas etc.) and Cervids (deer): understanding the structure of the sectors in Scotland

Iain McKendrick     SRUC-A2-2 Research into zoonoses and emerging diseases to protect public health and animal health in Scotland

Glenn Marion     SRUC-A2-3 A systems understanding of the flow of AMR from livestock production to the environment and humans: informing antimicrobial stewardship and optimal use 

Giles Innocent     SRUC-A2-4 Achieving improvements in the health of Scottish livestock through increased uptake of biosecurity practices 

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-A3-5 Practical on-farm solutions for welfare and sustainability: Innovative on-farm solution to chronic welfare problems

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-A3-6 Practical on-farm solutions for welfare and sustainability: Practical methods to promote and evaluate positive animal welfare (PAW)

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-A3-2 EU Exit – challenges and opportunities for maintaining and improving animal welfare standards 

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-A3-3 Solutions to improve the welfare of laying hens

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-A3-4 Understanding and influencing human behaviour to improve animal welfare 

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-B2-1 Feeding and breeding strategies for climate resilient and sustainable dairying

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-B2-2 Breeding and management strategies for sheep in the Scottish hills and uplands, to meet future economic, environmental and climatic challenges 

Claus-Dieter Mayer     SRUC-B2-3 Enhancing livestock resilience and adaptability to environmental challenge, while protecting and enriching genetic diversity 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B2-4 Data driven innovations for improved sustainability of ruminant productions systems 

Claus-Dieter Mayer     SRUC-B2-5 Data driven techniques to develop new phenotypes for dairy cows and chains

Claus-Dieter Mayer     SRUC-B2-6 Integration of data to drive data driven approaches for livestock improvement 

Claus-Dieter Mayer     SRUC-B2-7 Modelling our livestock futures 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B3-1 Ensuring positive behavioural change for farmers towards best practice for clean growth: economic and behavioural investigations

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B4-1 Scope to increase its production of fruits and vegetables in Scotland. 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B4-2 Improving the resilience to shocks of Scottish food and drink supply chains

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B4-3 Understanding the mismatch between domestic consumption and production in Scotland

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B4-4 Food and drink innovations – models of policy support and other incentive mechanisms

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B5-1 Mapping supply chains that are important to the Scottish food and drink industry

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B5-2 Collaboration within Scotland’s food and drink supply chain

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B5-3 Opportunities available to Scottish food industries in existing and new markets

Ian Hunt     SRUC-B5-4 Assessment of interventions for driving long-term positive changes in diet and nutrition 

Iain McKendrick     SRUC-B6-1 Understanding the environmental diversity of STEC and its relationship with human pathogenic potential

Giles Innocent     SRUC-B6-2 A systems understanding of the flow of AMR from livestock production to the environment and humans: informing risk analyses

Ian Hunt     SRUC-C2-1 Agriculture climate and carbon

Ian Hunt     SRUC-C3-1 Impacts of land-based financial support mechanisms on land values, landownership diversification and land use outcomes 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-C3-2 Modelling the socio-economic, greenhouse gas and natural capital impacts of land use policy and opportunities

Ian Hunt     SRUC-C4-1 Building the circular economy: sustainable technologies, green skills and upscaling behaviours

Ian Hunt     SRUC-C5-1 Modelling the current and future GHG emissions and wider impacts in the Scottish beef, sheep and dairy sectors 

Claus-Dieter Mayer     SRUC-C5-2 Large data to underpin national livestock food systems modelling

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D1-1 Using data-driven tools to help support the uptake of measures to reduce ammonia emissions from Scottish beef production and understanding the trade-offs with methane reduction

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D1-2 Air quality: domestic biomass burning and particulates

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D2-1 Vulnerability of remote coastal communities to water challenges: Perception, valuation and coping mechanisms

Sarah Brocklehurst     SRUC-D4-1 Seeking multiple benefits from natural carbon stores in the uplands 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D5-1 Understanding the value of Scotland’s agricultural soil natural capital 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D5-2 Synthesis of natural capital and valuation outcomes

Ian Hunt     SRUC-D5-3 Modelling the socio-economic, greenhouse gas and natural capital impacts of land use policy and opportunities?

Ian Hunt     SRUC-E1-1 Novel insights on Scotland’s rural and island economies (NISRIE) 

Ian Hunt     SRUC-E2-2 Reimagined policy futures: Shaping sustainable, inclusive and just rural and island communities in Scotland   

Ian Hunt     SRUC-E3-1 Impacts of land-based financial support mechanisms on land values, landownership diversification and land use outcomes