{"id":736,"date":"2026-02-10T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/uor-nhm-partnership\/?page_id=736"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:04:40","slug":"facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/uor-nhm-partnership\/about-us\/facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisational Research Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Research Facilities<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/about-us\/science-centre.html\">new NHM buildings at TVSP<\/a> will will house state-of-the-art laboratories for molecular biology, conservation and specimen preparation. There will also be cryo-facilities for tissue storage, digitisation suites, collaborative research spaces, computing clusters and workspaces.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime,\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">laboratories and facilities at both organisations can be made available for colleagues&#8217; <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">research activities. Please see the links below for what is available, and do reach out to <a href=\"mailto:uor-nhm-partnership@nhm.ac.uk\">uor-nhm-partnership@nhm.ac.uk<\/a> if you have any queries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>University of Reading Facilities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The university has an excellent range of facilities for use by staff, students, and external collaborators. Please find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/research\/research-environment\/facilities\">details of what is available<\/a> here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Natural History Museum Facilities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Natural History Museum has extensive facilities for understanding natural history. 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