Some highlights so far, and an opportunity to engage with each other and with the partnership further

Two NHM colleagues attend a 5-day Videographic Research Summer School at UoR

Project team engaging visitors with tiny fossils at the Community Festival at University of Reading May 2025

A pilot study to appraise different approaches for collecting and identifying pollen found moth specimens

A pilot project to process NHM palaeontological field samples from Westbury Cave, Somerset.

A Patnership funded workshop to explore and generate research ideas around the intersection of biodiversity and human health

Partnership seed-funded project: Soundings, a day-long research event at NHM, drawing on Jana Winderen’s sound installation, The River, installed in the Jerwood Gallery, as a point of inspiration.

A seed-funded project to analyse the ‘Clacton spear point’, an important artefact thought to be the world’s earliest weapon.

A day of presentations and discussions on evolution for University of Reading and Natural History Museum staff supported by Partnership Seed-Funding

A set of masterclasses which aims to catalyse and support collaborative, interdisciplinary research.

A one-day University of Reading and Natural History Museum Technician Conference supported by Partnership Seed-Funding

Six cross-institutional keynote seminars aiming to raise the profile of interdisciplinary research in areas of sustainability, biodiversity, and environmental challenges

Collaborative Research Council funded doctoral programmes

A project to examine the long-term impacts of urbanism on biodiversity and ecosystem health from a DNA perspective

A PhD Studentship to explore long term issues of health, migration and power over resources in an invaded population

A PhD studentship to investigate the rate and sequence of evolutionary change in Cambrian echinoderms