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Research projects

UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage research engages with complex, real-world heritage issues that demand world-class research expertise from numerous disciplines.

UCL ISH collaborates on projects with distinguished partners, such as:

Tate
The Smithsonian Institution
Dyson
Philips
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport
The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee
UK research councils

These projects inlcude a diverse range of topics, including examining the effects of climate and climate change on historic objects and sites; studies of the conservation of plastic artefacts and the condition of books in major libraries; and analysing gaseous emissions and the smell of heritage objects.

Research projects

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