Research England has supported nine of the 探花直播鈥檚 museums and collections with 拢3m a year of Higher Education Museums, Galleries and Collections (HEMG) funding, over the coming five years.
Research England has supported nine of the 探花直播鈥檚 museums and collections with 拢3m a year of Higher Education Museums, Galleries and Collections (HEMG) funding, over the coming five years.
HEMG funding is critical in ensuring our collections support researchers and students across the UK and worldwide
Kamal Munir
探花直播 探花直播 cares for the country鈥檚 highest concentration of internationally important collections outside London, with more than five million works of art, artefacts and specimens. Together, these collections play a fundamental role in delivering the 探花直播 mission to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence and encompasses collaboration with and support of world-renowned researchers, game-changing research-led exhibitions and wide-ranging inclusion and learning programmes, promoting wellbeing, creativity and connectivity.
鈥淚鈥檓 delighted that Research England has made such a strong statement of support for collections-based research at Cambridge, particularly in a challenging funding landscape,鈥 said Kamal Munir, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for 探花直播 Community and Engagement.
鈥 探花直播 探花直播 continues to invest in enhanced research infrastructure and services to generate and enable research that spans the arts and the sciences, including via a Strategic Research Initiative, Collections-Connections-Communities that provides a convening space for research that benefits our communities. HEMG funding is critical in ensuring our collections support researchers and students across the UK and worldwide, through infrastructure, services, staffing and equitable collaboration.鈥澨
This year, the 探花直播 Herbarium joins the portfolio for the first time and the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences rejoins the portfolio.听
Sam Brockington, academic lead for the Herbarium, which was recently awarded Designated status, said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 fantastic to see the 探花直播 Herbarium receive investment in this way. 探花直播Herbarium is the fourth-largest of its kind in the country, and a rich resource that supports a huge range of scientific and humanities research. Research supported by the Herbarium ranges from the discovery of species new to science, to the genomics of crop improvement, and investigations into the history and development of scientific ideas and natural history. This investment will enable us to substantially develop our support for the wider academic community.鈥
Dr Liz Hide, Director of the听Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, which has been awarded 拢210,000 a year, said:听鈥淚鈥檓 delighted that Research England has recognised the strength of the Sedgwick鈥檚 collections and their importance to the UK and international research landscape. Over the next five years, this new investment will be transformative for the Sedgwick Museum, ensuring researchers can fully utilise our new Collections Research Centre, and enabling our outstanding collections to inspire many new avenues of research across both the sciences and the humanities.鈥
Dr Juliette Fritsch, the 探花直播鈥檚 first Director for Collections鈥 Strategy, said:听"I鈥檓 thrilled to work across the incredible resources contained within the 探花直播鈥檚 museums, libraries, and botanic garden collections to create strategies together, building on major initiatives, such as the cross-collections Power and Memory programme. These integrated approaches enhance our collective impact and are only possible through the input of our funders, including Research England and Arts Council England.鈥
探花直播full list of 探花直播 of Cambridge museums and collections awarded HEMG funding are:
1. Cambridge 探花直播 Botanic Garden听
2. Fitzwilliam Museum听
3. Kettle鈥檚 Yard听
4. Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (MAA)听
5. 探花直播 Museum of Zoology听
6. Polar Museum听
7. Whipple Museum of the History of Science听
8. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences听
9. Cambridge 探花直播 Herbarium听
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