Venue

 Workshops 3 and 4 were hosted by the  British Museum from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 September 2022

Online presentations

The first morning of the workshop saw the ChemArch ESRs give a 10-minute presentation on their research projects to date, the presentations were streamed live via Microsoft Teams allowing the wider network to participate, with around 13 project partners and supervisors hearing about the latest project developments. 

Scientific talks

On day 2 of the workshop the ESRs received talks on subjects such as: 

• High performance mass spectrometry

• Lipid analysis and lipidomics

• Cyclic IMS

• FT-ICR mass spectrometry

There were also 3 career talks speakers at LabCorp and The Crick Institute

British Museum Artefact Science

On days 3 and 4 of the workshop, the ESRs: 

• Took part in group work on how science is used to present a specific artefact from the museum collection

• Recevied talks from museum curators and scientists on how scientific research has been used to improve understanding of particular museum collections

• Received a talk from museum experts on the presentation of archaeological remains along with the highlighting of new technologies which have removed the need for destructive sampling in some instances

Archaeological visit

The final day of the workshop had the ChemArch fellows travelling to Stonehenge, Wiltshire (an historic monument) for a sunrise visit which took place on the autumn equinox. After the sunrise visit the group received a talk from English Heritage colleagues about managing the historic site. 

Outreach planning