RAU Professor publishes paper on safeguarding global supply chains during a pandemic
14 Jan 2021
Louise Manning, Professor of Agri-food and Supply Chain Security at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), has called for strong global, national and community-based food security strategies to reduce the risk of empty plates around the world.
“Despite having policy and technological tools to reduce the impact of many human, zoonotic and plant diseases, the risk of empty plates[1] at local, re
RAU announces it is to refund student on-campus accommodation fees
12 Jan 2021
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has decided to refund students who are unable to access their on-campus accommodation due to the current national lockdown.
In line with national government guidance, all courses offered at the RAU will be conducted online until at least the middle of February. Although agriculture and related land-based courses at the University are vocational and include significant practical elements, they currently do not meet the government’s exemption criteria for practical programmes that can include face-to-face teaching el
Wild Campus Cirencester
10 Dec 2020
2020 saw the start of an exciting new project on campus. Wild Campus Cirencester is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Royal Agricultural University is lead partner working closing with the neighbouring Cirencester College and Deer Park School. Its aim is transformative habitat improvements across an area approximately half the size of Cirencester town.
James Hargreave joined us in November as Project Manager bringing over 20 years of project and environmental management experience.
New centre puts farmer priorities at heart of innovation research
04 Dec 2020
Leading universities team up to focus agricultural research where it can make most difference on the ground.
Farmers will have a bigger role in agricultural research and development that works for them, thanks to a new academic centre announced today.
Students contribute to rare arable wildflower field study
03 Dec 2020
RAU lecturers and students are studying the reintroduction of Spreading Hedge-parsley (Torilis arvensis), a rare plant that is associated with cultivated land.
New Chief Instructor and Equine Facility Manager takes the reins at RAU equestrian facility
01 Dec 2020
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has appointed Jake Bromley-Fowles as Chief Instructor and Equine Facility Manager at Fossehill – the University’s equestrian enterprise.
Jake, who starts in the new post at the beginning of December, has extensive experience in equine competition, training and breeding programmes.
He said: “I am delighted to be starting my new post at Fossehill. The yard has so much potential and I am excited to embrace the challenges of this role.
Next decade key for biodiversity, climate change and humanity, RAU’s Bledisloe Lecture hears
27 Nov 2020
The role that food, farming and forestry must play in meeting the challenges of climate disruption, nature depletion and human health was explored in an enlightening discussion at the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) annual Bledisloe Lecture.
Speaking to an online audience of 275 people, Chief Executive of the Soil Association Helen Browning, said: “We have certainly got to change the way we are farming.
RAU co-hosts Climate Smart Agriculture webinar with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
23 Nov 2020
Held on 3 November, the webinar provided a timely opportunity to share best practice and leading policy initiatives in both the Netherlands and the UK.
In his welcome, Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom highlighted the threat climate change poses to our agrifood systems. Ambassador van Oosterom called attention to the commonalities in the UK and Dutch farming sectors and the potential for the exchange of knowledge and best practices between stakeholders in the UK and Dutch sectors.
Two RAU Students have been selected for a National Agricultural Award
07 Oct 2020
Elin Havard and Amelia Preston have each received a ‘Centenary Award’ bursary for their postgraduate agricultural studies from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust.
The Centenary Award was launched by the UK’s leading rural insurer NFU Mutual to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2010. It provides annual bursaries to pay up to 75% of course fees for selected postgraduate students in agriculture, Elin and Amelia were two of only three students from across the UK to have been chosen for the award in 2020.
RAU shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award
29 Sep 2020
The Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) growing reputation for entrepreneurial success has been recognised in the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2020.
The University is one of only six finalists in the ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurial University’ category of the 16th THE Awards, widely known as the “Oscars of higher education.”
