What We Do

Partnership activities and opportunities, funded projects, studentships and postdoctoral fellowships

Partnership Activities and Seed-funded Projects

Global Environmental Challenges Seminar Series

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

UoR-NHM Technician Conference June 2024

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

Mid – Senior Career Academic Masterclass Series 2024

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

UoR-NHM Evolution Day March 2024

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

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.

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.

Phd Studentships and Postdoctoral Fellowships

Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology

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

Collaborative Palaeopathology PhD Studentship

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

Collaborative Natural Sciences PhD Studentship

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