GLAM research
About GLAM research
Our institutions lead, deliver and enable research and impact with Oxford scholars, talented students, an engaged public, and international partners, using our world-class collections. What makes GLAM unique is the interdisciplinarity and breadth of our collections-based research, which connects our work across disciplines and throughout the globe.
We are the catalyst, the platform and the forum for innovative collections-based research. We are a catalyst because we bring innovative ideas and objects to people. We are a platform because we have exhibition spaces, online publications, lecture series and websites which reach millions of people each year. We are a forum because our spaces are living laboratories for enquiry.
Our research activates the University of Oxford’s world-class collections, enhancing knowledge and value, whilst raising Oxford’s profile in the world. The flavours of our work are the product of a specific alchemy unique to Oxford’s world-class gardens, libraries and museums.
GLAM research in the news
Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers
Why am I symmetrical? / Bilaterians dominate
200 years of dinosaur science
Bruegel to Rubens, Oxford — intimate and spontaneous insights into Flemish masters’ minds
Oxford's History of Science Museum exhibition marks centenary
Pathless Forest by Chris Thorogood review – love letter to a monstrous flower
How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card
First-ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct
The world’s largest – and stinkiest – flower in danger of extinction, scientists say
See-through creature — with orange ovaries — found in ‘coral rubble’ is a new species
Contours that kill: New study shows geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants
To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think
Flying through time: Delving into the enchanting bird art of ancient Egyptian royalty
Why do we find so much amber in Cretaceous rocks?
Oxford university's online museum aims to improve mental health
Half–bull, half-truth… How English archaeologist claimed credit for discovering home of the minotaur
Research Stories from the Bodleian Libraries
Tiny 166m-year-old Skye lizard fossil shows ‘evolution in action’
The Benin bronzes and why their return to Nigeria matters
Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator
‘A striking work of nature’: the search for a rare flower in the Philippines jungle
Find out more about research taking place across GLAM
Ashmolean Museum
Bodleian Libraries
History of Science Museum
Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum
Museum of Natural History
Pitt Rivers Museum
GLAM-wide health & wellbeing research projects
Who's who in GLAM research
For news and media about GLAM research & impact please contact Claire Parris (claire.parris@glam.ox.ac.uk).
For general information about GLAM research & impact please contact Hattie Warburton (harriet.warburton@glam.ox.ac.uk) and Emma Webster (emma.webster@glam.ox.ac.uk).