We provide links to partner projects in the Strategic Research Programme and beyond.
Projects awarded based on research and expertise developed in C5
- EP/Y008839/1 Exascale Agent-based Modelling for Policy Evaluation in Real-time (ExAMPLER) – Imagine what you could do with agent-based modelling if you had a billion laptops at your disposal, instead of just one (desktop computing) or a thousand (cluster computing)! That kind of computing power has the potential to transform agent-based modelling, provided we can put together appropriate software, data and institutional support.
- BioSS Large-Scale and Systems Modelling - Developing tools for efficient computation at scale, estimation of large scale and systems model parameters, and the analysis of multiple models to test understanding and enable proper quantification of uncertainty.
- Innovate UK Digital Dairy Chain - Transforming the Dairy Supply Chain through Innovation, Collaboration & Growth
- ClimateXChange: Soil Routemap for Scotland - The aim of this route map is to consolidate the challenges of managing soil systems to develop an overarching strategy for delivering improved soil security across Scottish landscapes.
- UKRI Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) - Soil monitoring, A consortium of 34 leading research and stakeholder organisations has been established to help all four UK administrations address land use and agriculture as a major greenhouse gas emitting sector.
- Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) - Assessing the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment.
- Innovate UK Farm Balance - Innovation in Environmental Monitoring to support farmers and supply chains.
- Innovate UK – Digital Dairy Chain Project 2 - Includes work on farm soil monitoring
- UKRI JustLanz - Just transformation of food-farming systems: reconciling net zero and other land-use ambitions.
- M Bailey Gifford Fellowship on Glensaugh Farm for developing the app ourSmartFarm - A a new two-way data exchange and simulation modelling research platform serving as a bridge between farmers and scientists to help resolve the challenge of meeting multiple production and environmental objectives which requires a better understanding of the key factors limiting crop yield and quantification of the within-field spatial variation.
- PaluWise - Transforming degraded peatlands through innovative Paludiculture
- A Landscape Zonation stimulated NatureScot project led by Mike on Zonation for Conservation
- A Tools developed with Forestry Scotland -- offshoot of tool for FarmTree led by University of Aberdeen on agroforestry
Partner projects in the 2022-27 Strategic Research Programme
- JHI-C3-1 Land Use Transformations – generating new insights for how land use in Scotland needs to change to meet climate change mitigation, adaptation, and other environmental objectives.
- JHI-C4-1 Circular Economy: People, Behaviours and Skills – focusing on the 'everyday' aspects of the circular economy, this project explores how we can transition to a more circular way of being in the everyday aspects of our lives, whether at home or work.
- JHI-D2-1 Emerging water futures - to support development of a proactive approach to water management under future environmental change.
- JHI-D3-1 Healthy soils for a green recovery - Strengthen the evidence base to support and inform decision-making, practice and uptake for sustainable management and minimization of degradation and loss of Scotland’s soils. Healthy Soils for a green recovery will deliver new insights and knowledge on the role of Scottish soils, and the benefits that they confer.
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- JHI-D3-2 CentrePeat - Protecting and enhancing soil health
- JHI-D4-4 Applying large scale modelling to woodland creation
- JHI-D5-2 Climate Change Impacts on Natural Capital - research the impacts of climate change on Scotland’s assets such as plants, animals, fungi, insects, microbes (biodiversity) and our diverse range of habitats like forests, moorlands, wetlands, farmland, to understand how they may respond and be able to provide essential ecosystem services (the benefits we get from nature), such as water and climate regulation and ability to supply food.
- JHI-E2-1 Scotland's Rural and Island Futures – using a range of methods, this project is finding out how different people and businesses in different places are being affected by recent challenges such as Covid-19, Brexit, the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis.
Third partner projects
- SEFARI fellowship – Estimating the nutrient supply from agriculture in Scotland. To support choices about where and what might be produced, we present an estimate of the nutritional value of agricultural commodities produced in Scotland. Understanding the potential and realised nutrient supply from domestic agricultural production helps to evidence a discussion about how agriculture is valued.
- SEFARI fellowship – Net zero opportunities to mitigate agricultural emissions in the North-East of Scotland We reviewed recent reports to understand the future for farming in the North-East of Scotland. The aim is to see how the rich mosaic of farms there could be supported to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- SCAF pump priming – I Farmer: Narratives about Self, Land and the Future of Farming Farmers are increasingly required to deliver public goods beyond the production of agricultural commodities. This pilot project characterises how farmers describe their identity and how this influences their decision making.
- JHI-UNC-F9 Soils and related environmental data - collection, management, application, dissemination and governance
- SCAF Pump-priming -- Hortisuite market gardens
- Granular - generating new datasets, tools and methods to better understand rural areas.