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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 2h

What Happened in September blog 🌤️

It all comes together: events celebrating SCAF's diversity, launching strategic evaluations, and supporting member capacity to build competitive projects.

Read our full blog below 👇 #FoodStudies

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What Happened This Month | September 2025

It all comes together: events celebrating SCAF's diversity, launching strategic evaluations, and supporting member capacity to build competitive projects.

www.gla.ac.uk

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University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

Speakers Prof Jaime L Toney (GALLANT), Prof @emiliecombet.bsky.social (@scafarc.bsky.social), & Prof Chris Pearce represented UofG.

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Tackling the climate emergency - Scottish Funding Council

In our second Scotland’s Climate Week blog, SFC’s Elspeth Nicholson describes this week’s event to illustrate the support of Scottish university research for energy transition and our response to the ...

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 15d

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From Ideas to Impact: Working Across Academia, Industry and Retail Webinar | 14th October 2025

Indy Kaur, CEO and Founder of Plant Futures, will discuss how collective action can turn evidence into growth.

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Join our upcoming Early Career Network webinar with Indy Kaur, CEO and Founder of Plant Futures!

Drawing on her retail strategy background, Indy will discuss how cross-sector coalitions can turn evidence into growth and healthier, more sustainable choices. 💡 #FoodStudies

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 21d

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University of Glasgow - Research

University of Glasgow research news, research features, postgraduate research opportunities and support for researchers.

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Join SCAF and @quantum-alliance.bsky.social for a
collaborative workshop with introductory talks from both sectors (including an accessible intro to quantum tech), roundtable discussions, and information on how to secure £10k funding, per project, for ideas stemming from this event 💡 #FoodStudies

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 Explore all SCAF member spotlights here 👉 scafshowcase.wordpress.com/members-spot...

Member Spotlights

Our Member Spotlights showcase our connected and diverse community. We are proud to promote the work and achievements of our individual members, to facilitate networking and collaboration, showcase…

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 Currently, Nsongurua’s work is centred on how food should be produced, distributed, and consumed in a more ethical, environmentally safe, and socially inclusive way. Rather than depending on long, industrialised supply chains, her work focuses on local and regional food networks. 👏

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 She has also carried out needs assessment for community outreach programmes, working closely with local communities to identify specific challenges and solutions.

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 Nsongurua has taught courses in rural sociology, agricultural communication, diffusion of innovation, and agricultural administration while conducting research on enhancing rural lives.

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 SCAF MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Nsongurua Inyang is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Aberdeen! 🌟

Nsongurua’s background is in agricultural economics and extension, and rural development. 🌱 #FoodStudies

Full thread below 👇

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 27d

With the ambition of connecting people, ideas, and disciplines for a better food future, we invited SCAF members to our hybrid two-day event for talks, research posters, and networking 💡

Thank you to our speakers, panellists, and moderators for inspiring conversations and new ideas! 👏

#FoodStudies

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Brain Health Alliance for Research Challenges @brainhealtharc.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 Introducing Race Against Dementia: Data Challenge II

Join our launch to learn more about how we're broadening dementia and brain health research through access to rich, innovative datasets with unparalleled academic and technical support, free of charge.

➡️ bit.ly/4mTg3Og

#DataChallengeII 🧠

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MVLS Shared Research Facilities @mvls-srf.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're excited to be at the
@scafarc.bsky.social meeting today! Drop on by to find out more!

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Sep 3

What Happened in August Blog 🌻

August activities reflect SCAF’s breadth and diversity, making space for everyone in building Scotland’s food future. 🌱

Learn more about our online networking events, our response to the Good Food Nation national plan, and the upcoming annual event 👇

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What Happened This Month | August 2025

Activities this month reflect SCAF’s breadth and diversity, making space for everyone in building Scotland’s food future.

www.gla.ac.uk

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 Today at 1pm!

Register here 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

#FoodStudies 🍴

Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 Join us next month to hear from two SCAF-funded pump priming projects!

This webinar is for anyone interested in the topics or in learning more about collaborative research design and its benefits. 💡

👉 bit.ly/4mbhNSH

#FoodStudies

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Energy, Homes and Livelihoods Alliance @ehl-alliance.bsky.social · Aug 27

🥁 It's 2 weeks until our inaugural Annual Event!

Final call to join us for a day of networking, engaging discussions, and working together to drive the future of local heat and energy efficiency. Who could say it better than our Director, @mettehigh.bsky.social? 👏

#NetZeroScotland #SRAEHL2025

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 SCAF webinar - next week!

This webinar will explore market gardens and plant-based cheese, and is open to anyone interested in learning more about collaborative research and SCAF funding opportunities 💡 #FoodStudies

👉 gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌟 Explore all SCAF member spotlights here 👉 scafshowcase.wordpress.com/members-spot...

Member Spotlights

Our Member Spotlights showcase our connected and diverse community. We are proud to promote the work and achievements of our individual members, to facilitate networking and collaboration, showcase…

scafshowcase.wordpress.com

Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌟 Lindsay believes that tackling food loss and waste can only be achieved through cross-disciplinary work, owing to the wide diversity of contributing factors. 💡

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌟 Lindsay's main focus is the health of post-harvest leafy brassica crops and bioengineering for post-harvest traits. Last year, Lindsay and her teammate, Dr Adil Khan, won the Plant Cell Atlas Hackathon 2024 competition to design synthetic constructs for plants. 👏

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌟 Through her work, Lindsay aims to improve food safety by exploring the impact of harvest on the plant microbiome, particularly food-borne human pathogens. 🌱

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌟 SCAF MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dr Lindsay Williams is a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Edinburgh's
@instmolplantsci.bsky.social! 🌟

Lindsay is a molecular biologist who specialises in post-harvest quality and the safety of vegetable crops to reduce food loss and waste. 👇 #FoodStudies

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Quantum ARC @quantum-alliance.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Quantum Solutions for Food & Nutrition Workshop - Rescheduled Date!

Alongside @scafarc.bsky.social, we're hosting a collaborative workshop for anyone in research, development or innovation across fields & disciplines who has an interest in developing research projects within this space🍴🚀

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢 One week left to register for in-person attendance at the SCAF Annual Event!

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 SCAF Annual Event - just over 4 weeks to go!

Join us over two days for engaging discussions, research talks and posters, and networking opportunities in the University of Glasgow's Advanced Research Centre and online. 🍴

✅ View the agenda and register here: bit.ly/4jphGRJ