Research Institute for Collections Celebration

Join us to discover how you can become involved with the RIC and be a part of our mission to transform how the world is understood and knowledge is created through collections-based research.

• Find out what the RIC is, how collections can add an extra dimension to your research, teaching and learning and how you can get involved.
• Discover the range of RIC fellowship opportunities, what some of our current fellows are working on and how it has benefitted their research.
• Hear Prof Jon Topham, History of Science, University of Leeds, talk about his experience as a RIC fellow and what he discovered in the UCL collections while researching the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
• Listen to how Lucy McArthur, MSc Physics and Astronomy, is bringing together science and collections by using AI methods to understand early modern printing through analysing the first printed edition of Euclid’s Elements, held here at UCL.
• Chat to us at the drinks reception and tell us about your work, ideas and potential collaborations!

Book your place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/872688915037

There is also a separate curator-led tour of the Main Library exhibition ‘I Planted a Seed’: Childhood, nature and creativity. Places are limited and the talk requires standing throughout and stairs to access it. To book this tour and for more information please contact rebekah.seymour@ucl.ac.uk