RICHeS Regional Workshop: Enriching Collections at the National Museum of Scotland
I recently attended a RICHeS Regional Workshop at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The event was a great opportunity to hear about the latest updates from other RICHeS facilities, and from the AHRC team on the progress of the overall programme. They have been holding these meetings around the UK as a way for different facilities to meet with the user base, and it was a great opportunity to showcase our plans for the North East Material Culture Analytical Suite (NEMCAS) . One of the highlights for me was catching up with some familiar faces, especially Dr Paddy Gleeson , now Director of the Institute for Heritage and Environmental Science (IHES), the Northern Ireland RICHeS facility at Queen’s University Belfast. Paddy and I were both early career lecturers together at Newcastle many years ago, so it was wonderful to see how his career and the QUB facility have developed, and that we have both moved towards heritage science. The scale of the QUB RICHeS fac...