Sustainability

Environmental Management course video

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Hannah D'Mellow

Staff and students studying Environmental Resource Management at SRUC talk about their course and subject area. Find out more about studying Environmental Management by visiting our website.    

Categories: Aberdeen, Campus, Degree, Edinburgh, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, HN Level, Student opportunities and Sustainability Tags: #hnd, BSc, carbon, climate change, Degree, Ecology, environment, Environmental, environmentalist, management, pollution and resource

Countryside Management Course Video

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Hannah D'Mellow

Staff and students studying Countryside Management at SRUC talk about their course and subject area. Find out more about the course by visiting our website.

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, Campus, Change your path, College, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Elmwood, Environment and Countryside, HN Level, Oatridge, Postgraduate, Student opportunities, Study level and Sustainability Tags: #hnd, Conservation, Countryside, Countryside management, Degree, Ecology, HNC, management, NC, SRUC and wildlife conservation

Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Hannah D'Mellow

“ The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Science, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Organic Farming, Poultry, Renewables, SRUC Subjects, Sustainability and Uncategorized Tags: development, global, goals, SDG, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development goals and United Nations
Go Green

Go Green Week

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Anouska Curzon

This week is Go Green week, an annual national week of action on climate change. Countryside and Environmental Management lecturer in Aberdeen, Amy Gray offers some tips on living a more sustainable...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Campus, Countryside Management, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, SRUC Subjects, Sustainability and Uncategorized Tags: Aberdeen, Countryside, Energy, environment, Go green, green and sustainability
Chris Smillie

Unknown Pleasures Of Countryside Management

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

Chris Smillie is a lecturer in Countryside and Environment at SRUC Oatridge; we found out more about what led him in to teaching at SRUC and what his passions are...

Categories: Campus, Countryside Management, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Oatridge, Sustainability and Uncategorized Tags: Countryside, Ecology, Edinburgh, environment, joy division, Oatridge and SRUC

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 and Countryside, Environmental Management, 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, Agricultural & Landbased, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, College, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf & Greenkeeping, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Land-based Engineering, Landscaping, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Professional Golf, Renewables, 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: Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal Science, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, 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, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf & Greenkeeping, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Land-based Engineering, Landscaping, Oatridge, Poultry, Professional Golf, Renewables, 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 and Countryside, Environmental Management and Sustainability Tags: #changeyourpath, course, Ecology, environment, Environmental, environmental protection, Environmental Resource Management, mature, sustainability and sustainble