Vision, mission and goals of the Institute.

Vision
Inspiring a more equitable future through collections-based research.
Mission
To transform how the world is understood and knowledge is created through diverse collaborations that bringradicalthinking to collections-based research.
Goals
- To deliver world leading collections research across UCL through outstanding services, resources and spaces.
- To maximise research quality and impact by building communities of practice, funding opportunities and collections expertise.
- To open up the collections to non-traditional and practice-based areas of research by developing innovative projects and partnerships.
- To encourage radical and critical thinking that challenges existing structuralhierarchies to develop alternative narratives of our collections.