Gillian Donaldson-Selby

Gillian’s past and current research interests have largely focused on the application of landscape visualization in public participation and environmental problem solving, including landscapes, river rehabilitation, peatlands, natural flood managment (NFM) and onshore / offshore renewables. Some of Gillian's landscape visualizations have been used in urban greening exercises in South Africa, as well as Scottish government sponsored RESAS work packages and Green Health projects in Scotland.

Gillian Donaldson-Selby

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK

Christine Watson

Christine is Team Leader of Soil Science and Systems at SRUC, and a Professor for Agricultural Systems. Her research focuses on butrient management in agriucultural systems, working in a wide range of farming systems including arable, mixed farming, outdoor pig production and dairy systems, as well as agroforestry. She works at a variety of sclaes, from process based studies of nutrient fluxes associated with root turnover to crop rotation and farm scale nutrient budgets.  Christine is particularly interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to address global problems.

Christine Watson

Crop & Soils Systems

SRUC Aberdeen Campus

Craibstone Estate

Aberdeen

AB21 9YA

Dr Victoria Sandilands

Vicky is a senior research scientist in the Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and Engineering Sciences. Her research interests include:

  • Effects of housing and management on the behaviour and welfare of poultry.
  • Humane culling of poultry.
  • Sleep in poultry.
  • How to reduce feather pecking in laying hens

Vicky Sandilands

Roslin Institute Building

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

UK

Dr Alison Lees

Alison is a potato pathologist based at the James Hutton Institute and is a key staff member leading Integrated Pest Management research.

Alison Lees

James Hutton Institute
Errol Road
Dundee
Scotland
DD2 5DA

Professor Deborah Roberts

Deb is Director of Science at the James Hutton Institute, and her research experience includes agricultural economics and regional science, with a nuber of inter-related areas. relation to rural and regional development she focuses on understanding how and why rural economies are unique, the key drivers for change, and reasons for regional disparities. Second, in relation to the policy, she has focussed on modelling the economy-wide impacts of changes in farm, forestry and structural policies using social accounting methods and general equilibrium models.

Deborah Roberts

James Hutton Institute
Errol Road
Dundee
Scotland
DD2 5DA

Protecting our soil and securing the way ahead

A large proportion of the Scottish strategic road network in the Highlands is vulnerable to landslides. Landslides in Scotland have significant economic impact and they may increase in frequency with the intense rainfall events associated with a changing climate. The potential of vegetation to decrease vulnerability to landslides has been demonstrated in the laboratory, and increased vulnerability to landslides has often been noted after vegetation clearance in the field.

Show(case), not just tell...

By Annemarie Gibson, Film ProducerCircamedia

SEFARI think a lot about how to get their research out to the right people and in the right form. As filmmakers so do we. Obviously we think film is the strongest form of communication and has the potential to really grab the public’s interest - showing is always much better than just telling.