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	Page language options Calls for expressions of interest    Enterprise Awards    Knowledge Transfer Contracts    Research Contracts    Reporting on R&D Contracts    R&D Strategy     Working with HGCA Research & Development    Publicity Guidelines for Research and KT Projects    Undergraduate Bursaries & Studentships    PhD Studentships    PhD Studentships   HGCA PhD students   HGCA is actively involved in raising the profile of agricultural R&D within the young science community.  The first organised suite of PhD projects were funding in 2002 and funding has currently been secured to enable HGCA to support PhD projects up to 2010. HGCA is currently supporting 25 PhD projects, including 8 BBSRC CASE studentships (Cooperative Awards in Science & Engineering - these have industrial support alongside HGCA & BBSRC funding).  The range of projects is wide and covers aspects of research from crop production to human and animal nutrition. Details of each current project can be found by clicking on the title-link below.  We encourage all post-graduate students to give presentations or posters at an annual student symposium arranged by HGCA staff and attended by all current students; this is usually in the spring.  This meeting is a good way for HGCA students to get together and discuss their projects.  Further meetings are also conducted with the student, University supervisor and HGCA supervisor to discuss progress.  Students are encouraged to join the HGCA e-clubs e.g. Crop Research News, in order to be aware of forthcoming HGCA events and publications.  Students are also invited to other appropriate events e.g. relevant meetings, field days, R&D Conference etc. At the end of the project each student is required to provide HGCA with an electronic copy of their thesis but this will not be published or feature on the HGCA website.  Instead students are required to submit a 'farmer friendly' extended abstract putting their research into an applied context, which will go on the HGCA website.  Where considered necessary information will be used at HGCA events and Topic Sheets may also be produced. PhDs in progress Started in 2004/05 2975: Dietary Antioxidants in cereal-oil crops 3003: Effect of storage on chemical and nutritional value of wheat for non-ruminants 3007: Triazole sensitivity in field populations of Septoria tritici in the UK (CASE Studentship) 3009: Is resistance to yellow rust, in an old European wheat, durable? (CASE Studentship) 3030: The genetic control of ear-fertility traits in wheat 3031: Identification of optimum practice for seedbed preparation and establishment using soil structural visualisation 3032: Folate composition of cereal and oilseed crops Started in 2005/06 3081: Effects of geographical location of phoma stem canker and yield of OSR crops in the UK (CASE Studentship) 3108: Fusarium infection and mycotoxin production on oats 3190: New cyst nematode threats to cereals in the UK 3191: The impact of nutrition on the gluten composition & processing quality of wheat (CASE Studentship) 3192: Reducing the cost of canopy management by exploiting recent advances in understanding root-shoot signalling 3208: Predicting annual and regional fluctuations in crop health - development and application of new approaches 3209: Understanding and combating the threat posed by rye-grass (Lolium multiflorum) as a weed of arable crops (CASE Studentship) Started in 2006/07 3109: SLOWCARB 3193: All round eyespot resistance in wheat (CASE Studentship) 3259: Dissecting the components of high yield in oats 3260: Assessing the drought risk of oilseed rape to target future improvements to root system 3261: Understanding and predicting the determination of alcohol yield from wheat 3262: The genetic and environmental factors controlling acrylamide formation in wheat products 3280 Novel Approaches to the Control and Management of the Field Slug, Deroceras reticulatum Started in 2007/08 3316 The exploitation of historic wheat variety data by association genetics approaches 3357 Understanding and predicting the determination of alcohol yield from wheat 3359 Role of seed-borne infection in Rhynchosporium and Ramularia epidemics in barley 3360 The use of glycerol in diets for broilers 3361 Enhancing management of wheat bulb fly via the use of lure and kill and assessment of egg numbers 3395: Contribution of plant pathogens to yield loss following continuous cropping of OSR HGCA-funded PhD student wins award Libby Pirie was awarded the British Crop Production Council (BCPC) prize for the best poster by a postgraduate at the BCPC Crop Science and Technology Congress 2005.  For more details click here . PhD project application form    (79kb) Guidelines to management of PhD projects    (23kb) PhD summary report guidelines    (29kb)
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