UCR Agriculture Programme Leader attends 22nd World Congress of Soil Science
UCR Programme Leader for Agriculture attends 22nd World Congress of Soil Science UCR Programme Leader for Agriculture Tom Furness has been fortunate enough in recent months to undertake a number of activities exploring the implementation of environmental practices on livestock farms in the UK, through funding provided by The Farmers Club Charitable Trust’s Agricultural Educators […]
Helen Machin
Helen Machin Lecturer/Course Manager Helen has an FdSc Agriculture with Dairy Herd Management from Harper Adams University, BA (Hons) in Leisure & Sport Management from University of Wales, IAGSA Financial Recording for the Farm Business and 2 years’ experience as Youngstock Operations Manager at Harper Adams University. Helen is the Director of a family farming […]
Alan Brown
Alan Brown Lecturer/Course Manager Alan has a Diploma in Farm Mechanisation, Cert Ed and L4 Award in Training, and qualifications in Assessment & Quality Assurance. Alan has been teaching FE & HE at Reaseheath for 10 years. Alan has 5 years of agricultural engineering experience, 15 years as the owner & manager of a progressive […]
Louise Glenn
Louise Glenn Lecturer Louise gained a BSc (Hons) in Animal Health and Welfare at Harper Adams University. In addition, Louise has previously lectured in Agriculture at Reaseheath. Louise has spent a number of years working within the Agriculture sector specialising predominantly in dairy cow health, breeding and reproduction. Louise has her own award-winning milking herd, […]
Lis Morris
Lis Morris Lecturer/Course Manager UCR Teaching and Learning Coach Lis was awarded a BSc (hons) in Plant Science after studying jointly at Newnham College, Cambridge, and University of Manchester. Lis continued onto an MPhil degree in Plant Pathology, which resulted in the publication of her thesis. She has recently completed the Diploma in Education and […]
Connor Smith
Connor Smith FdSc Agriculture with Dairy Herd Management BSc (Hons) Agricultural Business Management Ruminant Technical Support Manager “As a UCR undergraduate I was encouraged to develop my own ideas, further my knowledge and work independently. “I’m keen to do research which is useful to farmers, so I studied antibiotic resistance to mastitis for my BSc […]
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