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Fiona is a researcher at the Moredun Research Institute, who specialises in how differenct anthelmintic treatment strategies affect the development of anthelmintic resistance, and has been working on developing targeted treatment (optimised whole-flock treatments) and targeted selected treatment (treating only those individucals within a flock that will gain a benefit) strategies in sheep.
The benefit of hindsight is that we can learn from our experiences, but history is not always a good guide to the future. The benefit of foresight, as provided by projections of a future climate, is that we can explore the range of conditions we might experience and better prepare to reduce risks and benefit from opportunities. In November 2018 the UK Meteorological Office released a new set of climate projections for the UK, called UKCP18, which follow on from previous releases in 2002 and 2009. These projections are estimates of the future climate under different greenhouse gas emissions
Jane is the manager of the Rural Policy Centre at SRUC. Her research focuses broadly on rural and regional development issues, with a particular focus on rural economies and businesses, rural policies and the policy-making process, urban-rural interations and linkages and demographic change in rural areas. She has undertaken projects for the European Comission, Defra, the Scottish Government and a number of local authorities and enterprise agencies.
āThis year's festival will feature some fantastically creative events cooked up by our endlessly ambitious volunteers, showcasing some of the nation's most brilliant researchers in their local pubs and cafesā āScientists from the James Hutton Institute will shortly take part in the worldās largest festival of public science talks, a Pint of Science. The three-day festival begins on 20 May and aims to encourage everyone to head down to a pub to hear talks on everything from debunking myths in nutrition, genetics, exotic animal and ancient Scottish volcanoes. More information from: Adam Walker
Crabmeat is an excellent source of protein but also provides good levels of important minerals, vitamins and beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. However, the meat from the brown crab ( Cancer pagurus) can also contain the heavy metal cadmium, both in the white meat but especially so in the brown meat. Long term accumulation of cadmium is known to be toxic to human health. As there has been no scientific research carried out on the potential impacts or otherwise that crabmeat consumption may have on cadmium levels in humans, a study by SEFARI scientists has sought to investigate this. Our results
I am a Principal Investigator and my main interests lie in the role of dietary micronutrients (minerals and vitamins) in promoting health and preventing disease. I am interested in assessing levels of micronutrients in various food products and in tissues and in developing improved biomarkers to assess/improve nutrient bioavailability and micronutrient status. A further aspect of this work is in determining levels of heavy metals within Scottish foods which is being carried out with Food Standards Scotland in order to monitor potential health risks to the consumer and which ultimately could
āFor social innovation to fulfil its potential to empower citizens in delivering cleaner, fairer, energy systems, the support of governments and energy companies alike is crucialā European citizen renewable energy projects are more diverse now than at any time in the past 50 years, and they are likely to act as incubators for social innovation in all aspects of energy. However, efforts must be made to ensure the democratization of energy and the genuine empowerment of citizens. Those are some of the findings of a new study on community energy undertaken in the context of an EU-funded research
āMore collaboration between public authorities, users and researchers is necessary to explore further applications of digital technologies, with social and natural scientists, to improve the provision and use of environmental informationā Public authorities are enabling citizens to be better stewards of the environment through greater access to environmental information, but there is a need to improve online information to meet peopleās needs. More information from: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0
āThe winners had not a āthinking outside of the boxā approach but instead a āthere is no box thereā vision, which showed an unconstrained desire to squeeze every ounce out of their businessā Lynbreck Croft, a 150-acre mixed habitat croft enterprise located in the Cairngorms National Park, has been declared the winner of the NEWBIE UK award for New Entrant Farm Business of the Year and will be presented with their award at the Royal Highland Show 2019. The European Commission-funded NEWBIE project offered the award to new entrants in 8 European countries including the UK, as part of a suite of