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Possible funded MIBTP projects

Please apply on the standard MIBTP application found on our Postgraduate Research Degrees page.

Start date: October 2026

• Assessing Long-Term Consequences of Cryptosporidiosis for Dairy Cattle Productivity and Farm Sustainability - Dr Hannah Jade Shaw
• Potentiating Fungal Biocontrol Agents with Natural Products for Subterranean Pest Management - Dr Ben Clunie
• Balancing education and welfare: Quantifying the impact of farm animal use in education to inform evidence-based guidelines - Dr Holly Vickery
• Anthelmintic Resistance and Sustainable Parasite Control in UK Goat Systems - Dr Hannah Jade Shaw
• Investigating the long-term impacts of environmental enrichment for dairy heifers, and its relation to a successful transition into the milking herd - Dr Holly Vickery
• Use of a synthetic analogue of the bovine appeasing pheromone to mitigate health and welfare challenges in calves and heifers - Dr Annabelle Beaver
• Reducing Lamb Mortality by Enhancing Placental Efficiency - Dr Claire Kershaw
• Impact of root exudates on long-term soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems - Dr Samuel Eze
• Optimising management strategies within dairy cow-calf contact systems in the United Kingdom - Dr Annabelle Beaver
• Examination of intermediate compounds in anaerobic digestate and their effect on phosphorous removal using electrocoagulation - Dr Marie Kirby
• Scentinels of War: Mobilising Aphid Natural Enemies Using Plant Defence Elicitors - Dr Joe Roberts
• Positive welfare strategies to support dairy cows through the dry period - Dr Gemma Charlton
• Stress, Behaviour and Host Pathogen Dynamics in Early Life Stages of Salmonids - Dr Tharangani Herath
• Host Pathogen Interactions in Saprolegnia Infections of Farmed Salmon in the UK - Dr Tharangani Herath
• The Impact of Regenerative Agriculture on Above-Belowground Interactions and the Consequences for Crop Productivity - Professor Simon Jeffery
• Investigating the epigenetic background of response and resistance to cardiomyopathy disease in farmed Atlantic salmon - Dr Robert Mukiibi
• Thinking, Playing, Connecting: Evidence-Based Enrichment for Cognitively Advanced Social Species in Zoos - Dr Ellen Williams
• Improving animal welfare practices in Veterinary Education: an evidence-based approach - Dr Ellen Williams
• Resistance and resilience of tropical tree crops - Dr Simon Segar
• Processing of specialised secondary metabolites by an extremely polyphagous weevil: implications for plant protection - Dr Simon Segar
• Application of a Milk-Based Diagnostic Tool for Early Detection of Johne's Disease in Dairy Herds - Dr Tharangani Herath
• Optimising resource provision to enrich the lives of dairy cattle - Dr Gemma Charlton
• Synchronising Potato Tuber Initiation with Transient Hormone Control to Improve Size Uniformity - Dr Kanthu Joseph Mhango
• Investigating the benefits of regenerative farming for improved pest management - Professor Tom Pope
• Safeguarding the welfare of piglets through improved feeding practices - Dr Stephen Mansbridge
• Improving gut health of broiler chickens through selection of dietary cereal inclusion - Dr Vasil Pirgozliev