Agricultural social scientist. Working on non-fiction book about dairy farming for September Publishing. Irish. Fond of swimming in North sea.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined May 2011
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For anyone interested in the ongoing saga about the proposed industrialisation of St Fittick's Park in #Aberdeen, you can send an email to @abdn_cccc to reject planning permission for a factory.
Take action to support the @fittick campaign now 👇 act.foe.scot/save-st-fittick…
Delighted to be part of the newly funded AMAST network bringing together stakeholders to address antimicrobial resistance in the agriculture sector.
We are part of a new UK research network launched to understand how #antimicrobial resistance impacts UK food production.
The #AMASTNetwork will bring together various #agrifood communities with researchers, to identify the challenges AMR poses.
More: bit.ly/4cUJVFa
New paper @BritishAcademy_ fellowship 'Cows eat grass, don't they?' on GB dairy farmers' views on grazing & year round housing.
Farmers valued the practice of grazing, but also didn't agree with wider discourse that indoor farming is bad
@EpicScotland
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I'm super delighted to receive funding from the @BritishAcademy_ for the non-fiction book I'm working on about dairy farming for @septemberbooks.
It's tells the stories of particular dairy farmers as a way in to bigger topics. The grant funds research costs
#dairy #milk #cows
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One of our very own researchers, Ruth Wilson, has been awarded funding from this programme. Congratulations, Ruth! 🥳
@JamesHuttonInst
#socialscience #research #jameshuttoninstitute
Seventeen UK researchers have been awarded funding through the Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2024 programme, funded by @SciTechgovuk with support from the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF): thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news…
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Our Master's student Ilys Cao Van Truong is seeking participants for her research on plastic consumption.
If you're 18 years old or older, are of a Southeast Asian ethnicity, and would like to take part, please get in touch!
All the info below 👇
Fantastic news in the fight to save St Fittick's Park in Aberdeen. A judicial review investigating the legality of a proposal development on the park has been given the go ahead to proceed.
There won't be any development on the park while the review is underway. Welcome news!
Permission to proceed granted in judicial review of proposed development of St. Fittick’s Park in Aberdeen
govanlawcentre.org/2024/04/2…
Relative number 2 who was prosecuted for selling watered down butter. This time paternal great granduncle Michael Shortall in 1899 from his shop.
He toughed it out and said he got it from a usual supplier & laws about watery butter sound stupid. He was let off without a fine.
Reading about history of milk & my Dad sent a 1903 clipping of 1st cousin 3 times removed Thomas Caulfield being fined for selling watered down milk.
Testing milk wasn't a percise science. TC argued his cows just gave watery milk & it was his wife's fault.
He still got fined £2
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In solidarity with you all on #LongCovidAwarenessDay. I'm thinking of you all, particularly all of the #LongCovidKids.
#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #StrongerTogether #pwLC
Looking forward to taking part in Bright Club next Thursday 14th, Spin, Aberdeen, 7pm.
Bright Club is a comedy event where academics do stand up about their work. I'll share some amoosing cow anecdotes, & explosive methane facts.
Sign up here: abdn.eventsair.com/bright-cl…
I've been reading about witches & milk. Across Europe butterwitches were said to steal milk, in the form of a hare or with their hare familiar.
This is a Swedish church mural of hares puking up stolen milk while a witch and the devil churn it.
More here: irishfolklore.wordpress.com/…
Excellent article by @FoEScot about shameful attempts to destroy St Fittick's Park in Aberdeen to make way for bogus "energy transition zone".
@AberdeenCC and @scotgov are complicit in a corporate land grab of greenspace in a deprived area.
@fittick
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/0…
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We have a new paper out in #LandUsePolicy on obstacles to #PES schemes for water management @OrlaShortall @sheffieldgeog @HuttonSEGS authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
Positive feedback from our @EpicScotland workshop last week for backyard poultry keepers.
Next workshop, #Fife, 8th Feb
We want to hear backyard keepers’ experiences of recent AI outbreaks & what would help them keep their birds safe. Contact [email protected] to sign up
I was on Good Evening Shetland last night, @bbcshetland speaking about @EpicScotland work with backyard poultry keepers.
We're doing workshops exploring experiences of AI outbreaks & what kinds of support they need.
It's at 24:31 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vm…
#Dairy and farming people: did you know that before the 1800s dairying was only done by women?
I’m doing research for the book about milk and absolutely did not know this.
I feel like not enough is done to celebrate this fact.
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36%I knew this
64%I didn't know this
44 votes • Final resultsWomen got edged of dairying in the 1800s when the government wanted to make it more professional and market oriented. Training on dairy farming was geared towards men and they were employed to manage farms and creameries.