A historic watercolour of a woman in a yellow and blue dress being scanned by a spectrometer

Partnerships and projects

We partner with researchers on projects exploring the Society's historic Collections.

You can find out more about recent and current partnerships and supported projects below. This also includes projects supported through collaborative doctoral research, and the Wiley Digital Archives Research Fellowships.

If you are an academic or researcher interested in discussing potential collaborations at any scale, or in having the Society as a partner on a funding bid, please contact Dr Sarah Evans.

Historic black and white photograph of two explorers taking photographs in a snowy mountainous environment.

Other Everests

Commemoration, Memory and Meaning and the British Everest Expedition Centenaries 2021-2024. Research by Dr Jonathan Westaway, Dr Paul Gilchrist and colleagues.

People in Indigenous Himalayan clothing doing a dance for an audience.

Indigenising the Himalaya

Dr Rohini Rai from Brunel University London has been awarded pilot funding a project focused on ‘undoing’ the public imagination of the Himalayas and reimagining the region.

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Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy

From hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula. Research by Dr Rebecca Williams and colleagues

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Decolonising Victorian histories

Frank Oates, geographic exploration and teaching imperial history and environmental science. Research by Dr Christopher Prior and colleagues

Cottonopolis

Lessons for environmental science through a global environmental history of Manchester. Research by Dr Aditya Ramesh and colleagues

Lima to Canton and beyond

An AI-aided heritage materials research platform for studying globalisation through art. Research by Professor Haida Laing and colleagues

Art sculpture made of braided shredded paper, hanging in an ornate room with wooden floors and oil painting portraits

CARICUK

Creative Approaches to Race and In/Security in the Caribbean and UK. Research by Professor Pat Noxolo, Dr Tia-Monique Uzor, and Dr Rita Gayle

Streetscene with people and large bronze ball sculpture being wheeled along the street

Globe

Research by Janetka Platun

The Hero Project

Research by Dr Abbie Garrington, Dr Natasha Danilova, Dr Berny Sebe and Dr Sarah L. Evans

The Creative Compass

Research by Agnes Poitevin-Navarre and Susan Stockwell

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Hidden Histories of Exploration

Research by Professor Felix Driver and Dr Lowri Jones

Cryptosphere

Research by Simeon Nelson

People wearing red caving gear and preparing for a descent

Swallet

Research by Flora Parrott

Exhibition boards with text and photographs showing mountain scenes

Research on Display

Collaboration between Academics and Museums on Exhibitions. Research by Laura Humphries

Historic black and white lantern slide showing three men wearing expedition clothing and with expedition equipment

A Million Pictures

A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning

Historic photograph of two people standing in front of large map and with globe.

Conferencing the International

A Cultural and Historical Geography of the Origins of Internationalism, 1919-39. Research by Professor Stephen Legg, Professor Mike Heffernan, Dr Jake Hodder, and Dr Benjamin J. Thorpe