Dr Harriet Wishart

Harriet has specific knowledge and interest in sheep and beef production. Raised on a family beef farm in East Anglia, where she now keeps a small flock of sheep, she brings practical, lived experience to her research and teaching.

Harriet holds a PhD from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and the University of Edinburgh, with research focused on applying technologies to sheep systems in extensive Scottish hill environments. She teaches and researches livestock welfare, how farmers adopt and integrate new technologies, and practical ways to improve productivity and the efficiency of modern livestock systems. Her work also explores how these innovations can support regenerative agriculture, helping farms build long‑term environmental resilience.

• Precision Livestock Farming: using technology to monitor and manage production animals.
• Integrating livestock into arable rotations.
• Regenerative farming practices utilising livestock.
• Livestock technology adoption and the role women play.

Harriet welcomes enquiries from prospective research students in the areas of her research interests.

• BSc (Hons) Agriculture
• BSc (Hons) Animal Management
• BSc (Hons) Animal Science

PG Cert in Higher Education Practice, University of Essex

PhD Animal Science, Scotland’s Rural College and University of Edinburgh

BSc (Hons) Animal Science, Writtle College (now ARU Writtle, awarded by University of Essex)

Lewis, I., Wishart, H., Breeze, E., Setter, P. and Amory, J. (2024) 'Needle-free intradermal vaccination, an opportunity to improve commercial pig welfare', Animal Welfare, 33, e48. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2024.53

Morgan-Davies, C., Kyle, J., Boman, I. A., Wishart, H., McLaren, A., Fair, S. and Creighton, P. (2021) 'A comparison of farm labour, profitability, and carbon footprint of different management strategies in Northern European grassland sheep systems', Agricultural Systems, 191, pp. 1-11.

Morgan-Davies, C., Lambe, N., Wishart, H., Waterhouse, A., Kenyon, F., McBean, D. and McCracken, D. (2018) 'Impacts of using a precision livestock system targeted approach in mountain sheep flocks', Livestock Science, 208, pp. 67-76.

Wishart, H., Morgan-Davies, C., Stott, A., Wilson, A. W. and Waterhouse, A. (2017) 'Liveweight loss associated with handling and weighing of grazing sheep', Small Ruminant Research, 153, pp. 163-170.

Pollock, M. L., Wishart, H., Holland, J. P., Malone, F. E. and Waterhouse, A. (2015) 'Photosensitisation of livestock grazing Narthecium ossifragum: Current knowledge and future directions', The Veterinary Journal, 206, pp. 275-283.

Watson, K., Lewis, I., Amory, J. amd Wishart, H. (2024) '64. A change in the system: implications of sheep production methods on lamb productivity', Animal-science proceedings, 15(1), pp. 70-71. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anscip.2024.02.065

Lewis, I., Wishart, H., Breeze, E., Setter, P. and Amory, J. (2024) '124. Needle-free intradermal vaccination, an opportunity to improve commercial pig welfare', Animal-science proceedings, 15(1), pp. 137-138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anscip.2024.02.125

Wishart, H., Morgan-Davies, C., Waterhouse, A. and McCracken, D. I. (2019) 'Performance, longevity and financial implications of removing productive ewes early from mountain flocks'. In: Book of Abstracts of the 70th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. Ghent, Belgium (presented by Claire Morgan-Davies).

Wishart, H. M. and Lambe, N. (2019) 'Variation in individual feed intake profiles recorded in group-housed lambs', 'Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science', Advances in Animal Biosciences, 10(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040470019000013. Edinburgh, UK.

Wishart, H. M., Lambe, N. R., Morgan-Davies, C. and Waterhouse, A. (2016) 'Brief Communication: Which traits best predict ewe performance and survival the following year on a UK hill farm?' Proceedings of the New Zealand society of Animal Production, 76, pp. 159-162. Adelaide, Australia.

Wishart, H., Morgan-Davies, C. and Waterhouse, A. (2015) 'A PLF approach for allocating supplementary feed to pregnant ewes in an extensive hill sheep system'. In: Guarino, M. and Berckmans, D. (Eds.), Precision Livestock Farming ’15, pp. 256-265. Milan, Italy.

Wishart, H., Lambe, N., Morgan-Davies, C. and Waterhouse, A. (2014) 'The effect of duration of removal from grazing on body weight in sheep measured with an automated weighing system', Proceedings of British Society of Animal Science, 5(1), pp. 15.

Stevens (now Wishart), H., Blackie, N. and Amory, J. R. (2011) 'The effect of a two step weaning method on the behaviour of six month old Belgian Blue crossbred beef calves', Proceedings of British Society of Animal Science, 97.