Queen’s Anniversary Prize ceremony
HRH The Prince of Wales, with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, presented Queen’s Anniversary Prizes to recipients of the award in the eleventh […]
Research
Visiting researchers go visting
Visiting researcher, Filip Pantelić (left) and intern researcher Mélanie Libeau (right) took time from their lab work to visit Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet (centre) – who is a […]
Tree breeding and forest products
There was a good turn out to Forest Research’s seminar on Wednesday 17th February. Speakers covered a range of topics related to tree breeding and diversification […]
FP1302 WoodMusICK call for STSMs
COST Action FP1302 “Wooden Musical Instrument Conservation and Knowledge” has issued a call for Short Scientific Missions Deadline for submission of the applications: 29.02.2016 Deadline […]
Project Update – Minor Species
Work is progressing in our project looking at the properties of several different “minor” species grown in Scotland. During the early part of 2015 Forest […]
Royal recognition for timber research
The timber research team at Edinburgh Napier University has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its internationally acclaimed work in “Innovations in UK timber construction reducing […]
Report on extractive content of Scottish roundwood
Steven Adams conducted a review of what has been published so far on extractive content of the main commercial softwood species in Scotland (namely Sitka […]
David Gil-Moreno presents his research in Brazil
PhD student, David Gil-Moreno presented some of his research at the 19th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, in Rio de Janeiro. The paper […]
CLT production in the UK
A Scottish construction firm is investing £4.2m in a ‘massive’ timber production plant following university research by The Institute for Sustainable Construction. Lanarkshire-based firm CCG […]
PhD opportunity at Linnaeus University
The project deals with advanced numerical modelling to study different types of wooden structures that are exposed to variations in both mechanical load and cyclic […]