Alison Capper
Robert Hodgkins
Arrived in OZ
Well it is now coming up to my 2nd night in Oz, it has been a fairly busy few days. Loaded up onto a flight on Sunday night, economy class is defiantly not suited to someone my size, I am sure if I was keeping sheep in those kind of confined conditions I would be shot! First problem of the holiday...
Robert Craig
Nuffield starts in China
Rapidly approaching the half-way point of my five week trip I thought its time I better sat down and wrote my first Nuffield blog! My first week in China seems an age away now following the past 10 days spent in warmth of New Zealand. China was all I had expected and more, fast moving and busy with a progressive hard at...
Gareth Davies
It's Started!!!
I have just spent a week in Ireland as the start of my studies. It was an amazing week, and I couldn't get over the amount of time and the amount of information that everyone was willing to give to me. During the week I visited three top farmers, had an interesting meeting with a top dairy industry person, spent a whole...
Edward Green
Queen's Jubilee Lucheon
Attended the Queen’s Jubilee Luncheon in Westminster Hall on 5 June 2012 as part of the Bank Holiday Jubilee celebrations courtesy of my sponsors, the Worshipful Company of Butchers. An great occasion attended by all the historic London livery companies and representatives of charities which benefit from livery support. There was a real buzz in the air in London throughout the...
Robert Burtonshaw
Introduction
Tempting as it is, I will try to resist making this first blog entry a review of the CSC (contemporary scholars conference) That’s not to say I would struggle to waffle on about it, the CSC massively exceed my expectations and deserves I write up, however I expect others will make comments and it seems a while ago now. So far so...
Amy Jackson
Getting started
Now the elation from being awarded a Nuffield Scholarship has died down, realisation of the enormity of the task ahead has kicked in. I’m studying how – and whether – the barriers to large scale dairy farming can be removed. It’s a contentious one, and a somewhat brave decision for the Nuffield Trust and my sponsors The Trehane Trust to back me...
Kate Lee
Rio+20 - The future we want
So I arrived safely in Rio! After a day's respite in the crumbling, beautiful, arty neighbourhood of Santa Teresa (where Greenpeace are rumoured to be staying for the summit) I am now making use of the free wifi in Copacabana. But there is no time for caipirinha, rollerblading or my thong bikini, it's time to focus on what the global farming community can...
Timothy McClelland
Not long now!
Welcome to my first ever blog! An historic event or what!!! Just to say that on Sunday 21 st October i fly off to New Zealand for 5 weeks and then on to Australia for two weeks before my wife and kids join for Christmas 2012 on the beach! Another first! I am really looking forward to beginning my Nuffield travel. Really appreciative...
Caroline Millar
Preparing to go down under
One week from now I will get the first of ten planes as part of an exciting Nuffield study to Tasmania, Victoria and South Island New Zealand. At this moment in time I am counting down the days and have a trip to Stratford Upon Avon for the Nuffield UK Conference to come this weekend - husband Ross is in...
John Millington
Welcome to John's Blog
This is a quick note to welcome all readers to come along with me on what i am expecting to be an exciting journey of knowledge transfer. I hope to share with you all the ups and downs of travelling while trying to discover more information on my chosen study topic. The two pieces of advice I was given on applying...
Kate Morgan
Open Farm School Days
Firstly I would like to say hi to all who may read my Blogs! I hope you find them of interest and I shall do my best to update them as much as possible once I’m out and about! I have to admit that I have not done much in terms of my Nuffield so far apart from the odd meeting...
Joanne Nash
Joe's 1st Blog!
2012 is turning out to be the most amazing year.The Scholarship awarded to me in January has already given me so much more than I could have imagined. More opportunities to meet people as passionate and dedicated to farming as I am; more opportunities to open doors that previously I would have been too intimidated to knock on;more opportunities to travel...
James Szabo
The Journey Begins
Whilst attending the Nuffield Frank Arden Memorial Conference - Fertilisers for the Future, with speakers Nik Johnson ( N.Sch ) and Mark Tucker ( N.Sch ), I took the opportunity to speak to one of the UK’s if not worlds leading and respected visionary’s in Agricultural Robots. Professor Simon Blackmore (Engineering Dept. Harper Adams University College, UK) has long seen...
Heather Wildman
Ist nuffield blog
Hello, here is my 2nd attempt at writing my blog...just mananged to delete my first version......arghhhhh! ok can i firstly start by saying a massive thank you to all those that have helped me to be in this position...getting a Nuffield! you know who you are. Also to my main sponsor The MacRobert Trust for seeing something in me.....i...