What We Do

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

Partnership Activities and Seed-funded Projects

Mid – Senior Career Academic Masterclass Series 2024

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

Tiny Fossils from the Ice Age

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

Biodiversity and Health Workshop January 2025

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

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

Unlocking NHM field samples for fossil vertebrates: a pilot project

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

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.

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

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

Phd Studentships and Postdoctoral Fellowships

Doctoral training programmes

Collaborative Research Council funded doctoral programmes

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