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Book Week Scotland – Staff Recommmendations
Applied Animal Science lecturer Carol Thompson tells us about one of her favourtite books for Book Week Scotland. (One of) My favourite books is ‘Some We Love, Some We Hate,...
Book Week Scotland
For Book Week Scotland we asked staff and students at Scotland’s Rural College to tell us about a book that they love. We start the week with a brilliant recommendation...
No Business Like Sow Business
Jennifer Cadger is a lecturer in Rural Business Management for Year 1 students at SRUC in Edinburgh. Cultivate caught up with her to find out more about her role and what...
Libraries Gave Us Power
In the last of our profiles for Libraries Week, we spoke with Mark who works in the library at the SRUC Ayr campus. Introduce yourself I’m Mark, bookworm, husband and...
Profile of an Aberdeen Librarian
In the second part of our profiles for Libraries Week we speak with SRUC Aberdeen librarian Rory MacLeod. Introduce yourself Hello! I’m Rory MacLeod and I’ve been campus librarian for...
The Talented Dr. Ripley – Interview With The Librarian
It’s Libraries Week (8th – 13th October 2018) this week and to celebrate we wanted to show off some of our amazing librarians here at SRUC. James Ripley is the...
Learning From A Distance
SRUC Alumnus Gareth Austin wanted to study either horticulture or agriculture but there were no courses available close to where he lives so he decided that distance learning would be...
What is Kokedama?
SRUC students and staff had a great time at Gardening Scotland recently helping members of the public make beautiful Kokedama – Japanese moss balls. Small plants have their root balls wrapped...
Why are you doing this?
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...
Mental Health Awareness Week: Combatting stress
We’ve put together a video featuring tips on how to combat stress, in support of Mental Health Awareness Week.