21 May 2021

Royal Agricultural University (RAU) postgraduate student, Kate Drury has been elected as British Wool’s English Central Region board member.

Kate, a student on the MSc Sustainable Food and Agriculture Policy programme, is delighted to have been elected and is the first woman to join the Board as a producer member in its history.

Kate believes that studying at postgraduate level at RAU has been a contributing factor to her recent success.

13 Apr 2021

The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) is asking rural and farming businesses in the North East, South West and Midlands how they are dealing with Covid-19 to explore the lesser-known area of rural resilience.

There is little research about how small firms in rural areas manage crises and how they recover so NICRE is speaking to more than 4,000 businesses over the next two months to shed light on this area.

25 Mar 2021

In the current global pandemic, students are having to overcome different and greater hardship and financial difficulties.

16 Mar 2021

A Royal Agricultural University (RAU) student who has had his sights set firmly on a career in farming since he was a young boy has been awarded a prestigious bursary for those entering the industry from a non-farming background.

Kirk Stamford’s “gritty determination”, along with endorsement from previous employers, helped him win the independent John Innes Foundation bursary which supports young people starting their farm management and crop production careers.

29 Jan 2021

The Royal Agricultural University is proud to partner with The Long Table project serving up over 7,000+ locally sourced, home cooked freezer meals that can be bought on a ‘pay what you can’ basis across the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire during the pandemic.

With reduced numbers of staff and students on site, the University is not needing to provide its usual catering service, and this led Ryan Hanson, Head of Catering and Retail at the RAU, and his catering team to prepare meals for the Long Table Project since March 2020.

28 Jan 2021

Farm animal welfare experts from the UK and the Netherlands joined to discuss priorities, best practice and policy in a post-Brexit era at a collaborative webinar organised by the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Ten speakers from both countries joined for the virtual knowledge exchange event, which was chaired by the RAU’s David Main, Professor of Production Animal Health and Welfare, and Dr Jessica Stokes, Lecturer in Farm Animal Welfare Science and Policy.

21 Jan 2021

For the first time, the International Conference on Biodynamic Research is being held in English, in England at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in Cirencester.

The RAU is delighted to play host to a truly international line-up of guest speakers and participants from across the globe at a four-day event to be held between Monday 30 August and Thursday 2 September this year.

19 Jan 2021

Shaelyn Bertrand, RAU graduate in BSc (Hons) Wildlife and Countryside Management, has been presented a £500 award for publishing a paper in the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club.

14 Jan 2021

Louise Manning, Professor of Agri-food and Supply Chain Security at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), has called for strong global, national and community-based food security strategies to reduce the risk of empty plates around the world.

“Despite having policy and technological tools to reduce the impact of many human, zoonotic and plant diseases, the risk of empty plates[1] at local, re

12 Jan 2021

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has decided to refund students who are unable to access their on-campus accommodation due to the current national lockdown.

In line with national government guidance, all courses offered at the RAU will be conducted online until at least the middle of February. Although agriculture and related land-based courses at the University are vocational and include significant practical elements, they currently do not meet the government’s exemption criteria for practical programmes that can include face-to-face teaching el