People & Partners
Student Representatives

George Epaku, 2022 Cohort Student Rep

James Grieves, 2023 Cohort Student Rep
Student Representatives help shape BARIToNE by meeting with the Executive Group and CTP Manager. They are happy to hear from prospective students to share their experience of being on the programme.
BARIToNE executive group

David High, BARIToNE CTP Programme Manager

Professor James Brosnan, Director of BARIToNE and the Scotch Whisky Research Institute

Professor Robbie Waugh, James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee

Professor David Cook, University of Nottingham

Dr Edgar Huitema, BARIToNE Training Lead

Dr Louise Stanley, BARIToNE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Professor Carol MacKintosh, University of Dundee, Director of Postgraduate Studies
academic and industrial partners

- ◦ The lead academic institutions are the University of Dundee; James Hutton Institute and University of Nottingham.
- ◦ Further academic stakeholders are SRUC; Abertay University; University of St Andrews and University of Highlands and Islands.
- ◦ The Scotch Whisky Research Institute (SWRI) is an industry funded research and technology organisation.
- ◦ Industry giants Diageo (distilling and brewing); Suntory Global Spirits (distilling and brewing); Chivas (distilling); ABInBev (brewing); Wm Grants (distilling) and Molson Coors (brewing).
- ◦ Smaller footprint distillers Glenmorangie, Tomatin and Bruichladdich.
- ◦ The Maltsters Association of Great Britain is the trade body for the UK malting barley industry.
- ◦ The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a statutory levy board, funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain.
- ◦ The Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society (SAOS) are embedded into the Scottish farming industry as experts on farmer co-ops and food industry collaboration.
- ◦ CampdenBRI is an industry funded research organisation.
- ◦ Opportunity North East is a regional enterprise organisation.
- ◦ The Crop Trust is an international organization dedicated to conserving and making crop diversity available for use globally, forever and for the benefit of everyone.
- ◦ Boortmalt is a global malting company.
- ◦ Scotgrain Agriculture is an Agricultural Merchant covering supply of arable inputs, agronomy, procurement & marketing of grains, oilseeds and pulses.
