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This research aims to examine how resilience in rural communities can be enhanced through processes of local empowerment and the role of wider networks and partnerships in facilitating the enhancement of resilience. It will also consider how stakeholders’ (including academics, policymakers, practitioners and communities) understandings of rural community resilience can be developed to create collaborative initiatives in the future.
My research is concerned with the dietary and social determinants of health across the life-course. The links between poor diet and health in the most deprived sectors of society are poorly understood and my work is designed to provide the knowledge to underpin the development of new ways to improve diet and break the persistence of disadvantage across the generations through the study of diet and epigenetics. This work involves the development of novel biological methodologies to study the food system as a whole; following nutrient flows from production to human consumption and their impact
I am a senior researcher in conservation behaviour / environmental psychology focusing on the nature-health-sustainable behaviours nexus. I draw on an interdisciplinary background in molecular biology, natural resource management, conservation behaviour and environmental psychology to investigate the interface between people and their environmental settings (for example, natural, built, home, office) with an aim to develop bridges between issues of ecological quality, health/wellbeing and sustainability. My research centres on the relationship between people and nature, a relationship
Place-based policy and rural Scotland: To improve current understanding of (i) the main reasons for differences in economic performance and social outcomes across rural areas and small towns of Scotland, and (ii) how policies can help to deliver positive outcomes and address these disparities.
This research deliverable addresses the following question: What are the links between trends in farming/crofting/key rural industries and population change, in sparsely populated rural areas, and how do these affect the resilience of rural communities? The project will consider recent trends (since 1991) and will formulate scenarios for the period up to 2050.
I am a mathematical modeller at BioSS and work on developing process-based models of biological systems. Recently my research has focussed on two main topics - microbial communities (e.g. in the human colon, the rumen and for waste treatment (anaerobic digestion)) and crop pests (e.g. PCN on potatoes and hoppers on rice). Details of these and the associated papers and software (R packages), are on my web page.
I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen. Trained as a molecular biochemist I joined the Institute after research-based roles at the University of Würzburg, Germany and the Hannah Research Institute, Ayr, Scotland. My main research interests are in the area of metabolic health, including obesity, cardiovascular health and diabetes. My lab investigates the potential of phytochemicals in combatting metabolic disease and the role of early life nutrition in determining life-long metabolic health consequences. This research can inform the food industry how their
"Fruit for the Future is one of the James Hutton Institute’s most successful and long-running industry events" Join us at our Invergowrie site, near Dundee, on Thursday 25th July for the 2019 edition of Fruit for the Future, the annual showcase of soft fruit research including scientific presentations, outdoors demonstrations and walks through experimental plots, presented by the James Hutton Institute and the Scottish Society for Crop Research. This year's event will feature an official opening by Ben MacPherson MSP, the Scottish Government's Minister for Eurrope, Migration and International