All research projects

• “Shellshock” - Developing methods of using chitin to reduce potato cyst nematode populations
• A genetic approach to improving post-harvest quality
• A genetic approach to improving post-harvest quality in fresh produce
• A qualitative social science investigation of UK dairy calf health and welfare
• A qualitative study into the awareness and management of Johne’s disease in dairy herds in Shropshire
• A Scientific Perspective on Microplastic Pollution
• A survey of perceived incentives and obstacles concerned with the uptake of controlled traffic systems in the UK.
• A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe
• A Systems Approach to Disease Resistance Against Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens
• ABP PRISM 2030
• Achieving the genetic potential of oilseed rape; an integrated approach to controlling soil borne diseases
• Adaptação de estudos do efeito de pesticidas para abelhas sem ferrão: um estudo de alimentação de colônias com Melipona quadrifasciata
• AGCO Africa Agribusiness Qualification (AAQ) Programme
• Agricultural Education History
• Agricultural mechanisation of Sub-Saharan African smallholders by agrodealer development
• Agri-tech Growth and Resources for Innovation (AGRI)
• AgroCycle
• AHDB Landscape Recovery Project
• AHDB Resilience Review and Action Plan for farmers in England
• AHDB Sustainable Farming Incentive Project
• Alcoholic Beverages (brewing, distilling, wine, etc.)
• Algae antimicrobial efficacy in raw meat packaging
• Alternative Dietary Proteins
• An analysis of the interaction between the front and rear axles of a four wheel-drive tractor, and its contribution to tractive efficiency
• An evaluation of the feasibility and impact of using ICT to provide agricultural extension information to small scale farmers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
• An evaluation of the production and combustion of fuel pellets from oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) straw
• Approaching zero: Reducing water contamination and greenhouse gas emissions from Midwest dairy farms.
• Are physically acting bioinsecticides practically and economically compatible with UK arable cropping systems?
• Assessing the impact of root lesion nematode (Pratylenchus spp) infestations on the production of potatoes
• Attacking the clones: understanding resistance of aphid pests to biological control
• Automated harvesting of whole-head iceberg lettuce
• BBSRC LBNet Early Stage Career Fellowship: Harnessing anaerobic deconstruction of wheat straw for fuel, platform chemicals and bio-degrading enzymes (ADconstraw)
• Behaviour of the grey field slug in lettuce fields following consumption of molluscicides.
• Behavioural response of slugs to ingestion of molluscicides
• Behavioural Science and Farm Crime Prevention Decision Making: understanding the behavioural culture of farmers in England and Wales
• Behavioural, physiological and production effects of dairy cow-calf rearing systems
• Breeding Healthy Cereals
• Can Rapid Detection of Airborne Volatile Organic Compounds Improve Animal Welfare, Meat Quality and Meat Safety in Abattoir Environments?
• 'Catch me if you can' – improving monitoring and control of black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) in soft fruit and ornamental crops
• Corporate social responsibility, resilience and sustainability
• Critical evaluation of the utility of Modern Slavery Statements within the agri-food supply chain
• Critical review of food and feed safety vulnerabilities in circular economy
• Critical review of slurry storage ammonia emissions and their mitigation
• Cultural Control of Aerial Oomycetes Through Manipulation of the Protected Environment in Propagation and Protected Production
• Cultured meat: threat or opportunity
• D4AgEcol - Digitalisation for Agri-Ecology
• DASIE - Dairy Animal Sensor Integrated Engineering
• DeCyst - Factors affecting trap crop success against PCN (10027156)
• Defining the economic and social benefits of regenerative farming systems
• Description and effect of functional fibre in forages on rumen function, performance and health of dairy cows
• Design of a model-based control system for a hybrid ventilation of UK livestock buildings.
• Developing methods to tackle modern slavery in European agri-horticultural supply chains
• Developing Phenomenal Learning: A toolkit for implementing PhBL as part of a future-proofed SDG HE curriculum
• Development and evaluation of an on-farm rapid biosensor method for Campylobacter spp. detection
• Development of a safe RNA based biopesticide to control cabbage stem flea beetle
• Development of galacto-oligosaccharide as a prebiotic for animal feeds
• Dietary effects on the rumen microbiome in dairy cows
• Dietary means to reduce methane output from ruminants
• Dietary strategies to reduce ruminant methane production
• DRY: Drought Risk and You
• Early disease detection and monitoring in Farm and Field
• EcoInsect Research Project
• Economics of swarm robotics in UK agriculture
• Edible Food Waste Reduction: Using STFC Technology In Food Valorisation to Integrate Excess Food in Local Communities (UTILISE)
• Effect of application rate and pyrolysis temperature of Miscanthus biochar on soil physicochemistry, microbial processes and enzyme acitivites
• Effect of dietary protein supplements on the incidence of sub clinical necrotic enteritis in broiler flocks
• Effective leadership, management and development of people working in agriculture and agri-food: supporting new entrants from non-agricultural backgrounds
• Effects of pre harvest stress on ascorbic acid content in baby leaf spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
• Electric Drive for Off-Highway Applications
• Enhancing Biological Pest Control: Learning Mechanisms and Olfactory Conditioning in Parasitoid Wasps
• EPSRC Innovation Fellowship: Automating the continuous anaerobic digestion of wheat straw by co-cultures of fungi and methanogens (Auto-Fungan)
• Evaluation of spatial heterogeneity for the design and layout of experimental sites
• Evidence for the impact of neonicotinoid insecticides on the environment, mitigation measures and the potential environmental and economic consequences of not using this class of products
• Fall armyworm (FAW) early detection system in Tanzania: Leveraging data and artificial intelligence to save livelihoods in Africa
• Farm Business Management Tools and Techniques
• Farmer behaviour and factors that influence decision-making
• Feasibility study on the desirability of the UK pig industry adopting carcase cooling as an on-farm method for the storage of fallen pigs prior to disposal
• Feeding quality of wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) for laying hens
• Food fraud, food crime and illicit behaviour
• Food safety management and food safety culture
• Food waste management in the food retail sector
• Food waste research
• Forage legumes for dairy cow production
• From mechanistic understanding of predator avoidance of insecticide contamination to improved Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Egyptian crops
• Fusarium Langsethiae Infection in Cereals
• Fusarium resistance in UK oat varieties
• Gluten Free products in the retail section. An international study investigating the availability, quality and cost of gluten free foods.
• Hands Free Hectare
• Hands Free Hectare
• Harper Adams Digital Innovation Farm
• How do we assess, accept and mitigate risk in the food supply chain?
• Humane stunning in the slaughter of wild-caught fish for food
• Hyperweeding
• Identification of Fusarium resistance within UK oat breeding lines
• Identifying sources of disease resistance in lettuce against Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
• Identifying the key agronomic factors and climatic conditions during crop growth that promote post-harvest discolouration in lettuce – towards a predictive model for lettuce pinking
• Immunogenicity of Group B streptococcus (GBS) in fish following vaccine delivery via pHresponsive vaccine carriers within the feed
• Impact of agri-environmental schemes and the emerging biodiversity and carbon credit markets on farm resilience
• Impact of post anthesis rainfall on the production and distribution of fusarium mycotoxins in wheat
• Improved in-crop monitoring and use of trap cropping as a novel approaches to the integrated pest management of aphid BYDV vectors in winter cereals
• Improving aphid and BYDV monitoring
• Improving Soil and Crop Yield Sustainability With Controlled Traffic Farming and Low Pressure Systems (UK)
• Improving the healthiness of dairy products and reducing the methane output of dairy cows by feeding microalgae
• Improving the qualiy of frozen-thawed ram semen
• Índice de Qualidade para Cardápios da Alimentação Escolar Saudável e Sustentável (IQCAES²): a multidimensional evaluation platform for Brazil's national school feeding program
• Innovation in arable systems and their impacts on heritage assets
• Innovative approaches to Integrated Pest Management systems for ornamental production.
• Integrated Management of Cyst Nematodes in Oilseed rape
• Integrated Management of Insects Vectoring Plant Diseases in Indonesia.
• Interactions of soil water run-off with overhead (centre-pivot) irrigation and soil cultivations
• Interventions to reduce aflatoxin exposure to improve infant and child growth in low and middle-income countries
• Investigating the response by the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) to environmental factors.
• Investigating the routing of hydrogen from drinking water to ruminant (sheep) tissues and enteric methane
• Irradiation of Dairy products
• Knowledge exchange and the diffusion of innovation in the food supply chain
• Leafy vegetables-Resilient roots for rapid establishment under variable soil conditions
• Learning Patterns from Time-Series Data to Predict Tail-Biting, pen Fouling, and Diarrhoea in Pigs.
• LED for faster and better propagation (LED4FaB Roots)
• Leveraging remote sensing and ICT to facilitate yield maximisation, structured trading and inclusive value chain participation for smallholder staple grain farmers in Kenya
• Linking evidence and policy for managing biodiversity in the agricultural landscape
• Mechanisms of spread of Acute Oak Decline
• Meloidogyne species that pose a threat to potato production in the United Kingdom
• Mineral nutrition of dairy cows
• Minimising post-harvest losses in radish through an understanding of pre and post-harvest factors that influence root splitting
• Multifunctional field margins for the delivery of ecosystem services (water quality protection, pollinator support and bio-control)
• Mycotoxin contamination: assessment of risk in livestock systems
• MyToolBox
• NemaRecognition - An AI and molecular-driven pipeline for throughout plant parasitic nematode recognition
• Nutritional modification of gut in vitro with lysophosphatidic supplements
• Optimisation of Bioethanol Yield from Oilseed Rape Straw
• Optimisation of partial biofumigation for the management of potato cyst nematodes
• Optimising the efficiency of fungicides in distilling wheat
• Organics - Establishing the Strategic Framework
• Out-wintering as an alternative for replacement heifers reared for low or high input milk production systems
• Paludiculture Innovation Project (PIP)
• Park Royal Net Zero
• Pasture to Plate
• PhD project - Niru Tripathi - An investigation of novel and existing crop protection measures for the management of potato cyst nematodes (Globodera sp.) in potatoes.
• PhD project - Nyambura (Grace) Mwangi - Development of crop management strategies for ‘free-living’ plant parasitic nematodes infecting sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)
• Plant-based solutions to integrate livestock disease control, nutrition and environmental sustainability in Africa
• Potential of biopesticides for the control of cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala)
• Precision Agriculture Adoption
• Quantitative modelling for post EU exit trade deals (UK Agricultural Industry)
• Quick Scoping Review on the impact of pesticides used in amenity on the water environment
• Radio-tagging earwigs to understand the breakdown in successful woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann) control
• Rapid Evidence Assessment and Quick Scoping Review for water policy decision making
• Rapid evidence assessment of the relative risks to human health from the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic resistance genes in the aquatic environment
• Recovery and re-use of energy, water and nutrients from waste in the food chain (Redivivus)
• Reducing cattle’s susceptibility to Mycobacterium bovis infection through improved nutrition: establishing a knowledge base
• Reducing the impact of cabbage stem flea beetle on oilseed rape in the UK
• Resilient roots for rapid establishment under variable soil conditions
• Review of the value of mob or holistic grazing regimes used to support management of historic and ecological assets
• RoboChick - An autonomous platform for data collection in poultry buildings
• School of Sustainable Food and Farming
• SLIMERS
• Soil and Water Management
• Speciation Genomics in an Obligate Fig Pollination Mutualism
• Stakeholder inclusion in UK agricultural innovation
• Strategies for the disposal of fallen stock and their applicability to the UK situation
• Strengthening incentives for improved grassland management in China and Mongolia
• Summer Research Placements 2011-16
• Susceptibility of different wheat varieties to enzymatic hydrolysis
• Sustainable Agribusiness Model for Poverty Reduction Among Thai Small-scale Rubber Farmers
• Sustainable Agriculture for International Development: Accelerated breeding of Black Rot resistant brassicas for the benefit of East African smallholders
• Sustainable business models in food waste management in the retail sector
• Sustainable usage and upcycling of brewery by-products
• Synergy
• TH103 -Analysis of the Management of Outbreaks of Oak Processionary Moth in the UK
• The aphid factor: how aphid genetic diversity and the endosymbionts that they carry impacts barley yellow dwarf virus epidemiology
• The application of Biosolids for the nutrition and yield of crops
• The assessment of straw intake in sows and growing pigs housed in straw based systems, using an acid indigestible marker technique
• The Beef Toolkit
• The Carbon Exchange: Mapping the Drivers and Impact of the Carbon Market on Rural Enterprises in the UK
• The control of agricultural tractors carrying out draught cultivations.
• The Development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Camelids
• The Effect of Agricultural Management on Collembola communities in Agroecosystems.
• The effect of ground pressure on soil properties and crop development for 3 tillage systems (Illinois, USA)
• The effect of low ground pressure and controlled traffic farming systems on soil properties and crop development for three tillage systems
• The effect of macro nutrients and phytase on mineral digestibility and immunity in weaned pigs
• The effectiveness of integrated farm management, organic farming and agri-environment schemes as interventions for conserving biodiversity
• The effects of organically chelated zinc on performance in sheep
• The epidemiology and integrated control of fairy rings on golf courses
• The impact of on-farm mitigation measures for delivering an improved water environment
• The importance of nutrition for bumblebees and solitary bees; implications for stewardship.
• The influence of Syngamus trachea on pheasant populations
• The integration of PA tools and technologies for resilient and sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
• The multifunctional roles of vegetated strips around and within agricultural fields
• The relationship between on farm biodiversity and transitioning to Net Zero.
• The role of Agrilus biguttatus in Acute Oak Decline
• The Role of Current and Future Food Systems in Alleviating Food Poverty in Urban Areas – An Inclusive Food System Model
• The use of rapeseed meal as a feed for broiler chickens
• The use of systematic mapping in supporting environmental decision making
• To me, to you - developing a push-pull system for sustainable management of aphid pests in seed and ware potato crops
• Towards precision inputs through improved understanding of the underlying causes of in-field variation in Lettuce crop maturity and yield
• Traffic and Tillage Systems for Row Crops in Sub Saharan Africa
• Tuberscan: Using deep learning and data science to improve agronomy decisions in the potato industry
• Understanding and improving the feeding value of wheat for broilers
• Understanding low levels of rural community confidence in the police: A Participatory Exploration
• Understanding the Psychological Impact of Agricultural Crime
• United Kingdom and Brazil INterventions for Food Loss and Waste Education in Secondary Schools (BINLESS): A case study of collaboration between schools from Brazil and United Kingdom
• Updating the evidence base on the relationship between R&D spend and agricultural productivity in the UK
• Utilising the patchy distribution of slugs to optimise targeting of control; improved sustainability through precision application.
• Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network (VeGIN)
• Weed management using low energy lasers, alone and in combination with low dose photosynthetic electron transport inhibitors
• What evidence exists on the effect of utilising bio-based waste products for plant protection
• What is the effectiveness of agriculture interventions on agricultural investment, yields and income for smallholder farmers in Africa?
• What’s the beef?: Reducing Carbon Emissions in Beef Supply Chains by decentralising the carbon value chain
• Women in Street Names
• Yellow Gold: Innovative systems for sustainable daffodil derived Galanthamine production in the uplands