SRUC - Growing Resilience (In-person)

Mon Apr 20 2026 at 09:15 am to 03:30 pm UTC+01:00

SRUC - Scotland's Rural College - Edinburgh Campus | Edinburgh

SRUC 3rd Year Conference Team
Publisher/HostSRUC 3rd Year Conference Team
SRUC - Growing Resilience (In-person)
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A horticulture conference created by SRUC undergraduates featuring current & former student research & projects on the topic of resilience.
About this Event

SRUC’s third-year horticulture students are organising our first ever horticulture student conference at the Edinburgh campus.


The programme is all about Growing Resilience, with current and former students showcasing their research and projects on this topic to a diverse audience of students, lecturers and industry professionals.


There will be opportunities for networking, sharing ideas and getting inspired, and to make the event as accessible as possible, talks will also be available live online on Microsoft Teams.


In-person spaces are limited. Tickets for the online version are available .


Parking spaces are limited, so if you require parking please contact us at: [email protected]


The conference runs from 10:00 to 15:30. Lunch will be provided.


Schedule of Events


09:15 Registration and Tea

10:00 Opening remarks

10:05 Jakub Dobes - A quantitative analysis of plant morphology as a taxonomic classification tool -a case study of an Anthurium (Araceae) clade

10:30 Anna Skotniczna – Growing Resilience: My Journey into the Bioacoustics of Vicia faba

11:00 Comfort Break

11:10 Molly Cave - Resilience within our food production systems, people and places.

11:35 Rosie Boyko - Building Resilience into Scottish Soils

12:00 Lunch

13:00 James Douglass - Curreya pithyophila on Scots Pine: A Plantsmanship Honours Project

13:30 Lilias Fraser - The Addition of Caffeine to the Micropropagation of Zingiber officinale

14:00 Harley Lord - Scaly Tree Ferns at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: A Biogeographical Analysis

14:30 Tea break

15:00 Panel Discussion hosted by Will Ritchie featuring James Douglass, Lilias Fraser and Harley Lord.

15:20 Ending remarks

15:30 End of conference


Please note that photographs will be taken during the event.


SRUC Socials Links:

Facebook - SRUC

Instagram - @srucstudy

TikTok - @sruc

Twitter/X - SRUC (@SRUC) / X

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SRUC - Scotland's Rural College - Edinburgh Campus, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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