Project Leader
Dr Graham Gardner
Murdoch University
Tel: 08 9360 2264
Email - g.gardner@murdoch.edu.au
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At least 35 postgraduate students (28 at PhD level and seven at the Masters level) are undertaking scholarships to study the sciences that underpin the sheep industry. These include traditional biological sciences and management skills required for effective innovation, along with commercialisation and adoption of outcomes by the sheep industry. In addition, the students participate in a professional development program in a range of areas including best-practice innovation management, conferences and industry workshops. Graduate employment destinations are tracked following completion of studies to determine the effectiveness in placing the students within the sheep industry. To read more about the Postgraduate Project click here.
Benefits:
Researchers, educators and consultants for the sheep industry’s future;
Young career scientists contributing to the Sheep CRC’s research and development activities
Recommended users: Agricultural graduates
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A suite of producer education and training programs is delivering substantial improvements in productivity and profits in the sheep industry, with the majority of attendees changing their farm practices as a result of attending workshops. The Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation (Sheep CRC) is investing over $500,000 per year in training and skills development programs focussed on helping producers...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/sheep-crc-producer-training-delivers-productivity-gains-06-03-2012.php
Industry researchers are now a step closer to understanding the “get up and go” of lambs at birth, which could help producers improve survival rates and their overall on-farm productivity. By supporting new research through its postgraduate education programme, the Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation (Sheep CRC) is looking at different ways to improve reproductive efficiency on Australia’s breeding...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/understanding-the-get-up-and-go-of-lambs-22-02-2012.php
The question of how the Australian lamb industry will grow its share in the red meat market pie is the focus of a 12-month research project by WA sheep producer and Sheep CRC scientist Kelly Manton-Pearce. Dr Manton-Pearce will travel the world as a 2012 Nuffield Australia Scholarship winner, investigating the issues influencing the size of the national flock, Australia’s lamb industry’s global position, the effect of...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/growing-lambs-share-of-the-meat-pie-07-02-2012.php
For Ellie Noon, the opportunity to learn through a rural placement scholarship has not only confirmed her ambition to pursue a career in the sheep industry, but opened her mind to the potential gains genetic research offers. The Sheep Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC) is encouraging students to enter a career in rural science and the sheep industry by supporting the activities of the University of New England’s (UNE)...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/sheep-crc-supports-students-in-rural-science-06-12-2011.php
The future of the sheep industry is bright, with its researchers named the stand out performers at the annual Cooperative Research Centre Postgraduate Conference held in Coffs Harbour last week. The annual conference brings together the next generation of young agricultural scientists, all supported in their industry-focused PhD studies by the Sheep, Beef and Pork CRCs and Meat & Livestock Australia. CRC for Sheep Industry...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/sheep-crc-leading-the-pack-with-graduate-scientists-03-11-2011.php
Breeding Merino sheep that can withstand harsh summers across southern Australia without losing weight is a step closer to reality. Such sheep could potentially reduce feed costs and the risks of running livestock in areas of high seasonal variability and boost ewe reproductive performance and lamb production. Sheep Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC) post-graduate student Gus Rose has found that Merino ewes can be bred...
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/resilient-merinos-one-step-closer-24-10-2011.php
A new wave of young researchers from the Sheep CRC is building future R&D capacity for the thriving Australian sheep industry. Postgraduate researcher Sam Clark is one of 31 doctorate and masters students undertaking the Sheep CRC postgraduate education program.
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http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/information/news/new-wave-of-sheep-genetic-researchers-deliver-for-the-future-06-07-2011.php
