Kaleb Cooper joins the two recipients of his prestigious agriculture bursary for Students’ Union fundraising event

6 February 2025

Two young agriculture students, who may have struggled to get into the sector as they are not from an agricultural background, have had a helping hand from none other than The Cotswolds’ most famous farmer Kaleb Cooper (as seen on Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm)!

 

Meet the Giving Us Voice Project Team

Prof Horton, Dr Christie (RAU) and Dr Ichumbaki (UDSM) will be joined by members of the Zanzibar Heritage Foundation led by Abdallah Khamis Ali, Kidu Hamad Ali from the Ministry of Tourism and Heritage, Zanzibar and three students from the University of Dar es Salaam: Neema Athuman, Steve Mfupe and Mashauri Lumbas. 

Dr Annalisa Christie

Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow

Cultural Heritage

PhD, University of York; MA African Archaeology, University College London;  BSc Archaeology, University College London

Dr Annalisa Christie

Biography 

Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow

 

Dr Christie is currently Co-I on the British Academy ODA Climate Change Challenge project ‘Giving Us Voice’: Curating community perspectives on the impact of climate change on marine resource exploitation in Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia with Prof. Mark Horton and Dr Elgidius Ichumbaki (University of Dar es Salaam).

She teaches on our MSc in Cultural Heritage Management and MSc in Heritage and Archaeology programmes.

Giving Us Voice

​Project team:

Sebastian Kilpatrick

My RAU experience

I chose to study Rural Land Management at the RAU because I had studied countryside management at school, and became interested in the management of rural areas. This course covers many interesting aspects of the subject, such as contemporary issues like food security, and I have enjoyed trips to farms, Seizencote (a heritage property trip to an estate in the Cotswolds) and to RAU Swindon campus. 

RAU's twinning with Sumy National Agrarian University in Ukraine

As well as the daily humanitarian damage caused by the weapons deployed in the Ukraine Russia conflict, the long-lasting pollution to the Ukrainian farmland, from contamination by heavy metals in the Russian bombs, could have devastating impact on human health long after the war has ended.

RAU researchers, who have been working with colleagues at Sumy National Agrarian University in Ukraine to study heavy metal pollution in Ukrainian farmland caused by Russian bombs since the Russian invasion

The RAU in the United Arab Emirates

The RAU’s collaboration with the new University of Al Dhaid in the UAE will focus on technological developments to address food security and maintain animal health.

His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah in the UAE and President of the University of Al Dhaid, has signed a collaborative agreement with the Royal Agricultural University.

Life-saving assistance dog made honorary University staff member

20 January 2025

A medical assistance dog who can help prevent his diabetic owner from falling into a diabetic coma has been made an honorary member of staff at the University where his owner is studying.

 

Chief, a four-year-old German Shepherd, has been by Mexican student Philippe De Alba Anguiano’s side for the last two and a half years and the pair have recently travelled from Philippe’s home in Mexico City to rural Gloucestershire where type 1 diabetic Phillipe is spending a semester studying at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).

Two female lecturers appointed to share Dean role in a double first for the Royal Agricultural University

17 January 2025

Two associate professors have joined forces to share the role of Dean of Agricultural Science and Practice at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).

Dr Cassie Newland and Dr Karen Rial Lovera were originally asked up to act to the position at the end of last year when the previous Dean left the University but have now been officially appointed to the position.

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