A radar into the past: using geophysics to identify palaeoenvironmental landscape features

Supervisor: Mike Simmonds & Rob Fry

School: School of Archaeology Geography & Environmental Science
Department: Geography & Environmental Science

This project aims to test whether geophysical prospection, namely ground penetrating radar, ERT and magnetometry, can be used to map and identify landscape features that may contain sediments of a palaeoenvironmental nature, particularly palaeochannels or depressions which may have filled with minerogenic or organic sediments.

Bread Habits: understanding bread waste behaviour by households

Supervisor: Simone Pfuderer

School: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
Department: Crop Science

This project reviews and extends the evidence on bread purchase, consumption, and disposal patterns by households. A systematic review of the literature is followed by a survey to fill in gaps in the literature, categorising differences by bread type.

Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Feedback Interventions to Reduce Institutional Electricity Consumption

Supervisor: Mate Lorincz

School: School of the Built Environment
Department: Construction Management & Engineering

Design for Sustainable Behaviour is a research area concerned with the application of design strategies to influence consumer behaviour during the use phase of a product towards more sustainable action. Measurable.energy would like us to explore how the LED indicators on their smart plugs, which display the carbon intensity of electricity directly sourced from the National Grid, affect people's electricity consumption behaviour.

Determinants of renewable energy adoption in agriculture: An analysis based on the Farm Business Survey

Supervisor: Jorge Campos Gonzalez

School: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
Department: Agri-Food Economics & Marketing

This research uses the Farm Business Survey (FBS) to explore the key factors influencing farmers' adoption of renewable energy systems. It aims to understand how age, education, location, and farm characteristics drive this adoption.

In vitro evaluation of the potential of microalgae to reduce methane emissions from ruminant

Supervisor: Dr Christos Christodoulou

School: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
Department: Animal Sciences

Assessment of four microalgae on total ruminal gas and methane production, on dry matter digestibility and volatile fatty acids using in vitro batch cultures

Mineral profile of milk from cows fed agri-food industry by-products

Supervisor: Prof Sokratis Stergiadis

School: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
Department: Animal Sciences

Assessment of the implications of including local agri-food industry by-products in cows’ diet on milk macromineral and trace elements profile

The SmartDairy project

Supervisor: Dr Yiorgos Gadanakis

School: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
Department: Agri-Food Economics & Marketing

Global dairy demand is rising, amplifying agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions. Urgency surrounds emission reduction strategies. The Smart Dairy project assesses 'climate smart' innovations for resource efficiency, waste reduction, and carbon emission control in dairy production, aiming to meet this pressing need.