College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine

College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine
University College Dublin

Organisation type: 
University
Country: 
Ireland
Short name: 
College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine UCD
Description: 

Research & Innovation in the College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine

Research & Innovation in the School of Agriculture & Food Science
The mission of the School of Agriculture and Food Science is to develop and apply science and engineering scholarship to applications across the agri-food disciplines for the benefit of society through excellence in education, research and innovation.

Our research contributes to an improvement in the sustainability of agriculture and the environment, the health and welfare of animals and humans, the quality and security of food and consumer well-being. Furthermore, it encompasses the basic discovery of biological mechanisms, the application of knowledge to problem solving, both on farm and in downstream processing, and the translation of scientific discoveries.

The School has a broad research agenda, which accounts for approximately 25% of externally funded research income to UCD and a cohort of over 50 academics, a similar number of postdoctoral researchers and ca. 200 PhD and 65 Masters Students which are a major intellectual resource, with significant research outputs in terms of peer-reviewed publications and citations.

Our research ethos is to foster curiosity-based and hypothesis-driven research to best international standards in areas of key strategic relevance to Ireland while encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, both within and beyond the school where warranted.