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My RAU experience

I chose to study at the RAU because I wanted to become a surveyor and Cirencester was recommended to me by alumni. The variety of modules allowed me to choose between all the different areas of surveying, and the small lecture and seminar class sizes allowed me to get individual help when necessary.

Biography

I spent most of my academic career at the University of Bristol teaching architectural history and garden and landscape history. I am retained at Bristol as Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture & Designed Landscapes.

Honorary Professor Timothy Mowl

Honorary Professor in the Cultural Heritage Institute.

Biography

Lecturer in Business.

Jamie joined the RAU in July 2023 and will be teaching Business subjects including strategic management, marketing, and entrepreneurship with the University's international collaboration programme with Qingdao Agricultural University in China, and will contribute to the business and management modules run at the RAU campus.

Jamie Franco Cipriani

Lecturer in Business

21 August 2023

Dating back to 1845, Cirencester’s Royal Agricultural University - still known to many locally as the Royal Agricultural College – is the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world and, as you might expect, has an interesting and varied history.

And now we are officially opening the doors of our main Cirencester campus to visitors on Saturday 9 September as part of a free Heritage Open Days event taking place across England.

Biography

From Apples to Zoonosis.

David is an agricultural economist who specialises in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. David has extensive experience in modelling economic production systems (irrigation, livestock, cropping, etc) to explore policy and strategic research issues.

He has applied these skills to protect capital (economic, social, cultural, and environmental) from issues including, but not limited to, biosecurity, water resources and climate change.

Dr David Adamson

Associate Professor of International Agriculture.

PhD, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, Master of Natural Resource Economics, UQ, Australia, Bachelor of Agricultural Economics, University of New England, Australia

8 August 2023

The recent spell of wet weather is the topic of conversation in shops, pubs, and hairdressing salons across the land and none of us is a fan but the amount of rain the UK has seen, since the start of July, is now starting to cause big problems for UK farmers.

As well as trying to find enough dry weather to harvest fields of wheat, barley, and other crops which are ready to be combined, many farmers have not even been able to make hay yet this year.

About the grant

This grant will help MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security students from an African country with return flights and living costs for a month of field research as part of the degree
Three grants will be awarded each academic year