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Wanted: dairy farmers’ views on cow-with-calf production system (News)
A social scientist based at the James Hutton Institute is seeking the views of dairy farmers interested in running a ‘cow with calf’ production system in the UK. The system involves keeping calves with their mothers ... Read more
October 19, 2020
UnderStories - Storying woodland use, management and expansion in the Cairngorms National Park (Project)
What is the story with woodlands in the Cairngorms National Park? Or should we say, what are the stories, as there are many threads of stories of actual, former or speculative woodlands weaving in and out that make t ... Read more
Views sought on attitudes towards future of dairy farming in UK and Ireland (News)
There has been public controversy in recent years about indoor dairy farming. Research has found that the public are concerned about environmental and welfare implications of a move away from pasture-based systems towards more yea ... Read more
September 3, 2018
Hutton researcher awarded prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (News)
Orla Shortall of the James Hutton Institute’s Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences group has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship enables early-career academics in the humanities and s ... Read more
March 29, 2018
Open Farm Sunday 2018: New Venue! (Event)
Come and spend a fun family day at Glensaugh Farm! The Institute will be taking part in Open Farm Sunday 2018 on 10 June. ... Read more
Stochastic Anaerobic Digestion Economic Assessment Tool (Research Page)
What is anaerobic digestion? Anaerobic digestion is a process by which micro-organisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen, leading to the production of biogas and bio-fertilisers. Anaerobic digestion tech ... Read more
Spotlight on veterinary epidemiology, population health and infectious disease control (News)
The Scottish Government has today announced the re-commissioning of EPIC, the Pan-Scottish Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks. For the next 5 years EPIC will be led from the University of Glasgow by Professor Dominic ... Read more
March 21, 2016
Ten-year experiment identifies optimum upland farming system (News)
A study carried out over a 10-year period by ecologists at the James Hutton Institute and the universities of Hull and Aberdeen has shown that grazing a mixture of sheep and cattle, at low intensity, is the best approach for ... Read more
March 30, 2015
Agricultural journalists see environmental science in practice at Glensaugh (News)
International agricultural journalists had a unique opportunity to see environmental science in action at the James Hutton Institute farm at Glensaugh, as part of the activities organised during the International Federation of Agr ... Read more
September 18, 2014
Scottish Research Institutes' Annual Lecture: The Politics of epidemiology: the case of bovine TB (Event)
Professor Ian Lamont Boyd, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will present this year's Scottish Research Institutes' Annual Lecture. The Science for Life Lecture will be ... Read more
Long-term strategy: the best way to control Johne’s Disease (News)
A three year study into the control of Johne’s, a major wasting disease of cattle, shows it is possible to significantly reduce on farm infection, but often requires a long term, strategic approach to disease control and the ... Read more
July 5, 2013
HAP-E@Hutton Projects and Outputs (Research Page)
Opportunities PhD opportunity joint with University of Surrey on pathogens, antimicrobial resistance and anaerobic digestion ... Read more
HAPE Core researchers (Research Page)
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HAPE Platforms, resources and approaches (Research Page)
Pathogens do not automatically pose a risk to human or animal health if there is no pathway by which they can reach that person or animal (the receptor). Therefore, using a Source-Pathway-Receptor approach to address human and ani ... Read more
HAP-E@Hutton (Research Page)
The core research group in the Centre for Human and Animal Pathogens in the Environment (HAP-E) at the James Hutton Institute studies the following pathogen-environment systems. ... Read more
Centre for Human and Animal Pathogens in the Environment (HAP-E@Hutton) (Research Page)
Key pathogens in the environment interests Environmental survival of pathogens (for example, Clostridia in anaerobic digestate) Antimicrobial resistance - the environment/inputs to the environment as a vector and "melt ... Read more
Studies of grazing impacts on biodiversity at Glen Finglas (Research Page)
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