New grants for Harper Adams
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Harper Adams University College has been awarded new funding totalling approximately £300,000 to support a scholarship scheme and a group of new research projects. The scholarship scheme has been sponsored by the British Poultry Council and will support a two year scheme.
The research grants will be devoted to the following causes:
- A three year PhD-level studentship devoted to studying ‘effect of macro nutrients and phytase on mineral digestibility and immunology in weaned pigs’ has received £45,000 from the Silcock Fellowship for Livestock Research and another £45,000 from AB Vista. The research will be undertaken by Stephen Mansbridge from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who was previously a Harper Adams student.
- An eight month ‘independent systematic review of impact of on-farm mitigation measures for delivering an improved water environment’ will be conducted by Dr Nicola Randall, fellow staff of the University College, and Dr Barbara Smith of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. The review has been pledged £75,000 by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
- Finally, £120,000 has been pledged for a two-year project to investigate how to ‘design, optimise and produce a cost-effective, reliable, and efficient micro-scale anaerobic digester for local organic waste processing and energy production at farm/food business scale’.
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