News Archives - University of Reading and Natural History Museum

UoR Centenary Community Festival 2026

NHM National Programmes colleagues join UoR’s Centenary Community Festival 2026

Celebrating Women in STEM

An International Women’s Day Event 2026 in collaboration with the NHM IDEA Network

Global Environmental Challenges Seminar and Masterclass series

A second series of seminars and masterclasses to highlight and support collaborative, interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges.

Partnership Open Day 2026

A celebration of the UoR-NHM Partnership so far held on 8 January 2026

Tiny Fossils from the Ice Age

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

Methods testing for collecting and identifying pollen loads on moths

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

Unlocking NHM field samples for fossil vertebrates: a pilot project

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

Biodiversity and Health Workshop January 2025

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

Soundings: A Celebration of The River by Jana Winderen

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.

Making a point: early wood technologies of the British Isles

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