Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) are the catalyst, the platform, and the forum for innovative collections-based research. Our institutions deliver world-leading research through innovative research and engagement projects reaching local, national, and global audiences. 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.
Find out more about GLAM research on the GLAM website.
The ORA GLAM Staff Research Collection has gathered research on many journal articles, conference papers, working papers, preprints, and more - produced by the members of the University of Oxford, held with full text by ORA, as well as providing links to related GLAM research information and activities at the University at other locations.* We welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggested additions.
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Latest research by Oxford University GLAM researchers
Ashmolean Museum
- The distribution and circulation of the denarius in the second century AD
- Minoan and Mycenaean gold signet rings: craft traditions, knowledge transmission and cultural labels
- Death, dying, culture and compassion: the museum as reflective space for doctors-in-training
- Στρατιώτες και Αρχαιολόγοι στην Τσαουσίτσα
- The regional coinage of Pamphylia during the early 3rd century AD (c. AD 193–218) and their refle...
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History of Science Museum
- Case study: co-creating Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)-friendly science resour...
- Back to the future: new approaches to the astrolabe
- Object lessons from the asylum: the portable museum of Thomas E. Dexter
- Review of: "Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller (eds), Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Mod...
- Use of online cultural content for mental health and well-being during COVID-19 restrictions: cro...
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Botanic Garden and Arboretum
- Is “nature” a policy solution to mental health in schools?
- Prosopanche: a remarkable genus of parasitic plants
- An account of the genus Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in Iraq and taxonomic considerations in the Mid...
- Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant
- The king of fruits
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Museum of Natural History
- A new lace bug from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber informs the evolution of forewing venation in ...
- A new Cretaceous family illuminates the early evolutionary history of True Sawflies (Hymenoptera:...
- On two rare wasps (Hymenoptera: Ohlhoffiidae; Panguidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber
- A Jurassic Gondwanan origin with a Mesozoic vicariance and Cenozoic dispersals explains the bioge...
- The first record of Achilidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) in Miocene Dominican amber revealed by s...
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Pitt Rivers Museum
- “A rusting metal behemoth, within the crumbling masonry of empire”: addressing sugar plantations ...
- Mega mounders: burrowing talitrids (megalorchestia spp.) excavate large quantities of sand on Cal...
- Significant coastal dune loss challenges California's climate resilience and biodiversity goals
- Una marara (albero inciso) del Nuovo Galles del Sud: verso una provenienza e un futuro possibile
- ‘Rear elevation’ and other stories: re-excavating presence in O.G.S. Crawford's photographs of th...
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Latest research by Oxford University researchers using GLAM collections
Ashmolean Museum
- New insights into the earliest brass coinage production through pXRF survey of the Ashmolean coll...
- Chemical evidence for the recycling of Roman gold in the Kushan Empire
- Death, dying, culture and compassion: the museum as reflective space for doctors-in-training
- In bloom: how plants changed our world
- Online cultural experiences for mental health in people aged 16–24: a qualitative analysis of mul...
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Bodleian Libraries
- Jacques Philippe de Lacombe de Vrigny and the earl of Sunderland’s embassy to Vienna, 1705
- Establishing a workflow for assessing open monograph business models: a case study from Oxford
- How to start and manage a journal on the world’s most widely used (free) journal platform OJS
- The Bodleian Library and its incunabula
- A common thread. The textiles in libraries network - bringing together book and textile conservat...
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Botanic Garden and Arboretum
- Decoupled diversity and disparity after faunistic turnover in caviomorph rodents
- Smelling Wellness: Associations Between Botanic Garden Scentscapes and Human Health Gains
- A key to Aglaia (Meliaceae) in Australia, with a description of a new species, A. Cooper, from Ca...
- Reproductive biology, morphological taxonomy, biogeography and molecular phylogeny of Aglaia Lour...
- Status and distribution of Aglaia multinervis Pannell in Singapore
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Museum of Natural History
- Simultaneous Automated Insect Monitoring Across a Remote Tropical Elevation Gradient With Mothbox
- A new computational model illuminates the extraordinary eyes of Phronima
- Touching the past: object-based learning, classics teaching, and the materiality of marble
- On the identity of the type species of Parasa (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae): investigations into the...
- Ancient dog mitogenomes support the dual dispersal of dogs and agriculture into South America
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Pitt Rivers Museum
- Open cabinet
- Reimagining Moche vessels: engaging and (re)presenting precolonial ceramics at the Pitt Rivers Mu...
- An anthropological theory of dispossession
- “Seen Again”: Ethnography, Immersive Technologies, and Temporality in the Siberian Collections at...
- ‘Making the Museum’ and the archaeology of the Pitt Rivers Museum collection
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* ORA collections are generated from searches of content within ORA. Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure that the search terms used to generate each collection are relevant to their respective topic areas, there may be some results that do not explicitly fit within the intended collection theme.