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.
If you are a member of the University of Oxford and can't see your GLAM-related paper here, then deposit your accepted manuscript to ORA.
Latest research by Oxford University GLAM researchers
Ashmolean Museum
- Ashmolean object in focus: limestone striding statue
- Nineteenth‐century watercolour reproductions of old masters in the Ruskin Teaching Collection, As...
- New Compositional Insights into the Levantine Iron Age from Rare Glazed Ceramics of Tall Zarʿa
- Moulding emotions: later medieval badges in England and Wales
- From the reorganisation of Pompey up to the reign of Augustus: what can coinage contribute to our...
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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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Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum
- Announcing Thomas Reviews: a new format for impact at the intersection of plants, people and the ...
- Open Letters: supporting positive change for plants, people and the planet
- Policy influence 2024: building societal impact at Plants, People, Planet
- Introducing Methods and Techniques: interdisciplinary methods for interdisciplinary challenges
- Genomic changes and stabilization following homoploid hybrid speciation of the Oxford ragwort Sen...
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Museum of Natural History
- Synonymizing the Baltic amber genus Discotropiduchus Boderau, Peng, Jouault & Nel, 2025 with Trit...
- 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...
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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
- Ashmolean object in focus: limestone striding statue
- Nineteenth‐century watercolour reproductions of old masters in the Ruskin Teaching Collection, As...
- Metrological and metallurgical data from Roman aurei, 45 BC to AD 69
- 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
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Bodleian Libraries
- Open research prize 2026 – case studies
- 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
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Oxford Botanic Garden & 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
- Fostering student climate agency and future literacy: a case study of scenario-based teaching
- 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...
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Pitt Rivers Museum
- Held in glass: Indigenous North America and the colonial afterlife of the Pitt Rivers Museum from...
- XR marks the spot: augmenting spatial histories of coloniality through immersive technologies
- Open cabinet
- Reimagining Moche vessels: engaging and (re)presenting precolonial ceramics at the Pitt Rivers Mu...
- An anthropological theory of dispossession
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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.