Niamh Barry

I’m still getting used to everything and my SRUC supervisors have been incredible. They supplied me with additional literature for my lit review, and went as far as making sure I wasn’t eating alone for my first few lunches. They introduced me to PhD students who in turn took me under their wings. The PhD students invited to me to a BBQ which was great fun and very nice of them.

In addition to this I was shown how to use feedprint and a form of AgRE Calc that one of my SRUC supervisors developed, links to these have be supplied in the link page. So I have been working on these and writing my literature review. You can see the literature I have been compiling on the bibliography page.

Overall it was a very productive first week.

I meet my SRUC supervisors today, they were extremely helpful and nice. They showed me around and explained how everything works in SRUC.

I’ll be mainly desk based, I’ll be analysing different allocation methods, carbon foot prints and legume diets. Thursday week I shall get to travel to Crichton Farm next Thursday, this will allow me to see the how the project actually runs on the ground.

I bought a bike on Saturday to allow me to commute to SRUC in twenty minutes instead of walking for an hour. The bike I got is a bog standard mountain bike, no frills or even suspension. I had not anticipated Edinburgh to have so many hills, but the good thing is that this shall improve my overall fitness.

I safely arrived in Edinburgh and moved straight into my accommodation. There is not a spoon or frying pan in sight so my first job shall be to go shopping on a student budget. Poundland, Lidl and Argos shall hopefully supply all I need at a reasonable price.