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

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