INTERNSHIPS
2025 MARSHAL PAPWORTH SCHOLARS
MAY 2025- JULY 2025
A fresh cohort of 16 international students has been welcomed to Harper Adams University for an in-depth 10-week course on sustainable agriculture. The course is sponsored by the Marshal Papworth Scholarship Fund (MPSF) and each of its participants has been chosen from a charity or organisation whose work is making a difference in six different African countries – Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
2024 MARSHAL PAPWORTH SCHOLARS
MAY 2024 – JULY 2024
The latest cohort of agricultural professionals and academics from across Africa have graduated from Harper Adams University after completing a bespoke 10-week course. In total 11 participants who took part this year in the short course on sustainable agriculture at the University which is funded by the Marshal Papworth Fund, an agricultural development charity managed by the East of England Agricultural Society.
2023 MARSHAL PAPWORTH SCHOLARS
MAY 2023 – JULY 2023
The 2023 cohort of lead farmers and agricultural extension workers from across Africa and India have graduated from Harper Adams University after completing a bespoke 10-week course. In total 15 participants who took part this year in the short course on sustainable agriculture at the University which is funded by the Marshal Papworth Fund, an agricultural development charity managed by the East of England Agricultural Society.
FABIANA PEREYRA GODAY
JUNE 2022 – DECEMBER 2022
Fabiana Pereyra Goday is a PhD student at the Universidad de la República – Facultad de Agronomía (Uruguay), funded by a doctoral fellowship from INIA Uruguay (2020 – 2023). Her work focuses on productivity, efficiency, management, and environmental impacts in mixed crop-livestock systems. From June to December 2022, Fabiana visited Rothamsted Research, North Wyke.
OKANLADE LAWAL-ADEBOWALE
APRIL 2019 – MARCH 2020
Okanlade holds a Bachelor of Agriculture degree in General Agriculture and a PhD in Agricultural Communication from the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria (FUNAAB). He has been lecturing in the same university in the last 17 years in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, and conducting research on socioeconomic determinants agriculture practice and innovation adoption among the rural/smallholder farmers in Nigeria.
PAULO DE MÉO FILHO
MAY 2019 – NOVEMBER 2019
Paulo de Méo Filho is a PhD student at University of São Paulo – Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering in a partnership with Embrapa Southeast Livestock. From May to November of 2019 Paulo had the opportunity to visit and work in two experiments at the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP, Devon, UK) under the framework of the Institute’s Strategic Program “Soil to Nutrition”
KWAME AGYEI FRIMPONG
JUNE 2018 – MAY 2019
Kwame is an Associate Professor of Soil Fertility Management at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has led / co-led many locally- and internationally funded research activities that focused on soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs including biochar, compost, manure and synthetic fertilizers.
VALENTINA RUBIO
SEPTEMBER 2017
Valentina is a Research Assistant in INIA La Estanzuela (Uruguay) working in Management of Energy Resources and Soil Science. She spent three weeks at Rothamsted Research North Wyke (Devon, UK) assessing the environmental impact of agricultural systems using systems approach and long-term experiments data.
MABEL IFOEMA ONWAKA
MAY 2017 – APRIL 2018
Mabel is an Associate Professor of Soil Chemistry at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Nigeria. She was an Rothamsted Research International Fellow spending one year at Rothamsted Research North Wyke (Devon, UK) looking at ways of improving cattle dung to increase crop production in degraded agricultural soils of Southeast Nigeria.
MUHAMMED E.M.
MARCH 2017 – MARCH 2018
Muhammed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences – Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. Muhammed was an Rothamsted Research International Fellow spending one year at Rothamsted Research North Wyke (Devon, UK) investigating on the Impact of forage quality on enteric methane emissions from beef cattle.
ALI MAHDAVI
MARCH – APRIL 2017 AND JULY – AUGUST 2017
Ali is an assistant professor of Animal Science (Animal Nutrition) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Semnan University, Iran. During his short stays at Rothamsted Research North Wyke (Devon, UK) he became familiarised with a variety of methods for measuring methane which now are part of the topics he teaches to his students and gained unique and valuable experience in finishing lambs on pasture.
SIOBHAN MULLAN
DECEMBER 2016
Siobhan is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol (UK) on animal welfare. She is part of the team working in the BBSRC India Partnering Award – Health and Welfare Consequences of Maladaptation of High-Producing Cross-Bred Dairy Cattle to Environmental Stressors in India. She visited 38 dairy farms in Kerala (India) to assess welfare of cattle on those farms during December 2016.
SUREJ JOSEPH BUNGLAVAN
JANUARY -FEBRUARY 2016
Surej is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Animal Nutrition of Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University. He was awarded with the Early Career Researcher BBSRC funded Training Programme to travel to UK in 2016 and perform several activities: attending international an international conference and a workshop, presenting invited lecture on animal health and welfare, and attending several lectures.
BURSARY WINNERS FOR THE “STEPS TO SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK CONFERENCE 2106”
JANUARY 2016
Bursaries for travel and accommodation were awarded to six delegates attending the International Conference “Steps to Sustainable Livestock” held in Bristol on January 12-15th . Read brief introductions to the recipients.
GRAHAM McAULIFFE
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2015
Graham is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Rothamsted Research’ North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon (UK). Graham went to the US for a month at the beginning of his PhD programme gaining experience on measuring nitrous oxide emissions and on Life Cycle Assessments modelling and beef production.
BING WANG
OCTOBER 2015 – APRIL 2016
Bing works at the Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University (China). When he was a PhD candidate he was granted with a scholarship to spend six at the US Dairy Forage Research Center (Wisconsin, Madison, USA). He worked carrying out an experiment entitled “In vitro evaluation of ruminal protein degradability and microbial protein synthesis from protein and forage sources by external N15”.
SARAH COLLIER
AUGUST 2015 – JANUARY 2016
Sarah currently serves as Director of Programs at Tilth Alliance, an agriculture and food system non-profit in the Pacific Northwest of the US. She took part in a research exchange from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) to Rothamsted Research North Wyke (Devon, UK) examining soil carbon and other indicators of soil quality and soil health under a spectrum of land uses.
SURAJ P.T.
AUGUST – OCTOBER 2015
Suraj is an Assistant Professor of Livestock Production Management at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Science University (KVASU), India. Suraj was a Visiting Research Worker at Rothamsted Research, North Wyke (Devon, UK) for three months researching in assessing the effect of inorganic, organic and nano- selenium on the selenium status of ewes.