Sustainability

MSc Induction Study Tour 2018

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

New students embarking on our taught postgraduate courses at the Edinburgh campus spent their first couple of days on a study tour, staying overnight at SRUC’s Wigwam Accommodation in Tyndrum....

Categories: Edinburgh, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Postgraduate, Student Visits, and Sustainability Tags: #SRUCVisits, environment, field trips, food security, masters, MSc, plant health, postgraduate, Study, visit, and visits

Welcome to new students 2018

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Our Principal, Wayne Powell, records a welcome video to all our students each year. You can watch this online here: Link to the video on Vimeo    

Categories: Aberdeen, Activity Tourism, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, City & Guilds, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Introductory, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Modern Apprenticeships, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Short Courses, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing

Let’s clear the air

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Clean air day (21st June) seems a good day to highlight the contribution SRUC is making to the Farming for a Better Climate programme. Farming for a Better Climate (FFBC)...

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Science, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Green & Renewable Technology, Renewables, Student Life, Sustainability, and Uncategorized Tags: #Agriculture, #cleanairday, agricultural, air, air quality, carbon, climare change, climate, emissions, environment, and Environmental

Why are you doing this?

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

We asked our current students what motivated them to study their course…. here are the full results: There are some variations by subject area – those studying subjects related to animals are...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Oatridge, Poultry, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Successes, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing

Alicja Kaczmarczyk, Environmental Management

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Alicja Kaczmarczyk, originally from Poland, came to SRUC to study Environmental Management. As a mature student with a long break from full time education, the decision to change career path...

Categories: Change your path, Degree, Edinburgh, Environment, Environment and Countryside, and Sustainability Tags: #changeyourpath, course, Ecology, environment, Environmental, environmental protection, Environmental Resource Management, mature, sustainability, and sustainble

Turn off the lights and turn on the fun for Earth Hour

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

Earth Hour is the world’s largest grassroots movement for the environment, inspiring millions of people to take action for our planet and nature. On Saturday 24th March at 8.30pm switch...

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, Barony, Campus, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment and Countryside, Green & Renewable Technology, Oatridge, and Sustainability Tags: Earth hour, Earth hour 2018, and SRUC

Freshwater field trip

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Second year students studying the HND or BSc/BSc (Hons) Environmental Resource Management at SRUC’s Edinburgh Campus can be seen here visiting the River Almond as part of their Freshwater Environment...

Categories: Countryside Management, Degree, Edinburgh, Environment, Environment and Countryside, HN Level, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Visits, Sustainability, and Uncategorized Tags: #SRUCEdinburgh, Almondell and Calderwood, Conservation, country Park, Edinburgh, environment, Environmental, environmental protection, Environmental Resource Management, freshwater, Ranger, and water
Ailish Ross bottle feeding a calf

Positive of the benefits of animal welfare?

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

  Positive farm animal welfare is a relatively new idea which brings attention to animals having a good life. Positive farm animal welfare is in sympathy with public opinion and...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Biological Sciences, Organic Farming, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Sustainability, and Uncategorized Tags: Animal, Animal Science, Applied animal science, care, research, SRUC Research, and welfare
Snowdrops

Researching and Protecting the Environment at SRUC

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

The importance of the environment is increasingly recognised in society and includes issues such as climate change, land management, habitat loss, pollution control, sustainable development and energy conservation. We are...

Categories: Agriculture, Campus, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Green & Renewable Technology, Organic Farming, Renewables, and Sustainability Tags: climate, climate change, courses, Ecology, Ecosystem, Energy, environment, Environmental, Environmental Management, Environmental Resource Management, environmental science, Farming for a Better Climate, Rural Policy Centre, sac consulting, sustainability, and sustainable
Sophie in lab

Press for Progress film competition

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Lights… Cameras … Action … The 8th of March is International Women’s Day and with Scotland’s Women in Agriculture Task Force SRUC is planning to promote #PressforProgress by launching a...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agriculture, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Campus, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Green & Renewable Technology, Oatridge, Renewables, Student opportunities, and Sustainability Tags: #Agriculture, Film Competition, SRUC Study, and Women in Science