苏格兰农业学院PhD Position in Exploring the potential and limitations of cover cropping in spring barley rotations in Northern Scotland申请条件要求-申请方
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苏格兰农业学院
PhD直招介绍
About the Project
Funding
This PhD project is part of a competition funded by SRUC( https://www.sruc.ac.uk/research/ ). This opportunity is open to UK and International students and provides funding to cover tuition fees at the UK rate, plus a stipend to support living costs.
The proportion of international students appointed through this competition is capped at 30%. All students must meet the entry criteria for the PhD in Agriculture, Rural and Environmental Studies( https://www.sruc.ac.uk/course-catalogue/agriculture-rural-and-environmental-studies/phd-agriculture-rural-and-environmental-studies/ ).
The Project
Growing barley for several years in succession on the same field is not uncommon in Northern Scotland. This does, however, increase the risk of soil and crop health related problems becoming an issue. Growing cover crops during the otherwise unproductive winter fallow period between successive spring barley crops has potential to offer multiple benefits based on this regenerative agricultural approach. These benefits include keeping soil covered, maintaining living roots year-round i.e. remediating or preventing erosion, compaction and nutrient leaching as well as helping break the ‘green bridge’ effect linked to weeds, pests and diseases of barley crops.
This project aims to assess a range of potentially viable cover crop species and mixtures as well as evaluate prospective methods that might be used more reliably to establish them in the challenging environment of Northern Scotland. The project will also investigate the impact that these regenerative approaches can have on the production of successive spring barley crops based on their ability to improve soil health and reduce the need for synthetic fertiliser inputs.
Field trials will be used to establish cover crops either ‘pre-harvest’ or immediately ‘post-harvest’ of a spring barley crop in Aberdeen and Orkney in order to help understand the impact that diversified cropping can have on soil health and its associated influence on the productivity and quality of the following spring barley crop. The small plot field trials at SRUC Craibstone and UHI Orkney will be supplemented by on-farm trials (e.g. split field) co-designed by willing farmers in order to better understand the impacts of different establishment approaches and the use of appropriate cover crop species at the field scale and across a range of soil types and climatic conditions. On Orkney the student will also work with bere barley systems, which is a landrace that matures early (providing greater opportunity to successfully establish overwintering cover crops) and is adapted to thrive in low nutrient soils offering the opportunity to produce a high quality, locally sustainable product with reduced inputs.
This project will be based at SRUC, Aberdeen.
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项目资助情况
This PhD project is fully funded for 3.5 years. It is part of a competition funded by SRUC and is open to students worldwide. Funding will cover tuition fees at the UK rate, plus a stipend to support living costs and an annual research grant of £3,000 for the first three years of the PhD research (this is reduced to £500 in the writing-up year of the PhD).
苏格兰农业学院Phd申请条件和要求都有哪些？PhD Position in Exploring the potential and limitations of cover cropping in spring barley rotations in Northern Scotland项目是不是全奖？有没有奖学金？下面我们一起看一下苏格兰农业学院申请Phd直招需要具备哪些条件和要求，以及托福、雅思语言成绩要到多少才能申请。
申请要求
For entry to PhD study, applicants are expected to have at least one of the following:
• an undergraduate degree, usually with first or upper second (2:1) class honours or equivalent in a relevant subject, or
• a relevant master’s qualification or equivalent evidence of prior professional practice.
International applicants and candidates from non-English speaking countries will need to meet the minimum language requirements for admission onto the programme of study. These can be found in the Entry Requirements section of the PhD in Agriculture, Rural and Environmental Studies webpage( https://www.sruc.ac.uk/course-catalogue/agriculture-rural-and-environmental-studies/phd-agriculture-rural-and-environmental-studies/ )
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邮箱：Doctoral.College@sruc.ac.uk
招生人信息
Robin Walker
邮箱：Robin.Walker@sruc.ac.uk
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