Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
United Kingdom
Description: Scotland’s Rural College - SRUC is a widely respected further and higher education institute dedicated to producing specialist research, delivering high quality education, and providing comprehensive consultancy services in the rural sector within Scotland, the UK and beyond.
The Hill & Mountain Research Centre, with its team of systems-scale researchers, is based at Kirkton and Auchtertyre Farms, a 2,200 ha Highland estate near Crianlarich in the west Highlands of Scotland.
The size, altitudinal range (from 170 m to over 1,000 m) and wide range of inbye grassland and other upland moorland and woodland habitats - characteristic of hill farming and crofting - make SRUC Kirkton & Auchtertyre farms unique within both SRUC’s portfolio of research, demonstration and teaching farm facilities.
Our work aims to seek economically, environmentally and socially sustainable land management systems in the context of international, national and local land use policies.
Kirkton & Auchtertyre farms are uniquely placed – both now and into the future – to test, interpret and demonstrate how best to address the economic, social and/or environmental challenges facing upland land uses in a future that will involve greater amount of economic and climatic shocks.
Official contact:
Davy McCracken
E-mail:
Staff members involved:
Working Packages: WP2-Methods & Capacity Building
Category: Academic
Links:
- Website: https://www.sruc.ac.uk/research/facilities-capabilities/hill-mountain-research/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SRUCKirkton/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavyMcCracken
- Other: https://www.ruralbrexit.scot/innovation-in-upland-livestock-systems-srucs-hill-mountain-research-centre/
A group of environmental stakeholders discussing challenges and opportunities in upland land management at SRUC’s upland research farms. Photo: Davy McCracken
