RICHeS Access Fund: Expression of Interest Stage

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1. User Name

(Required)

2. User Email Address

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3. User Organisation

(Required)

4. User Organisation Type

(Required) Commercial Company (working in collaboration with an eligible partner organisation, such as a gallery, library, museum, archive, charitable or educational body, or any other UKRI eligible organisation) Community Organisation Freelance Specialist (working in collaboration with an eligible partner organisation, such as a gallery, library, museum, archive, charitable or educational body, or any other UKRI eligible organisation) Gallery, Library, Archive, or Museum (GLAM) Higher Education Institute (HEI) Independent Research Organisation (IRO) Registered Charitable Body or Social Enterprise Small Specialist Institution (SSI) Other (please specify below)

5. Describe the proposed project in a way that could be publicised to the general audience.

Please limit your response to 2000 characters. (Required)

6. Please outline the main objectives of the proposed work, and explain what impact the work would have on your organisation if the project were to go ahead.

Please limit your response to 3000 characters. (Required)

7. Have you discussed this project with the relevant service provider(s)?

(Required) Yes No

If yes: Please provide the name and contact details of your organisation(s) contact(s). Has permission been applied for and/or granted to work on the objects of interest related to this project? Please also limit your response to 1500 characters.

8. Which service(s) are you proposing to use from the HSDS Catalogue of Services?

Please limit your response to 1250 characters. (Required)

9. Please select the technique(s) your project intends to use from the list below.

(Required) Dating (e.g. radiocarbon, OSL, TL, other isotope methods, dendrochronology) Environmental Monitoring (e.g. air quality, pollution, light monitoring or recording) Imaging (e.g. XRF scanning, multispectral imaging, thermography, photogrammetry, laser scanning, structured light scanning) Marine (e.g. sub-bottom profiling, side-scan sonar, MBES) Mass Spectrometry (e.g. IRMS) Microscopy (e.g. high-resolution digital microscopy, optical or light microscopy, UV microscopy, VP-SEM) Molecular Analysis (e.g. aDNA, amino acid racemisation, LC-MS, GC-MS, ZooMS, proteomics) Molecular Spectroscopy (e.g. FTIR, Raman, micro-Raman) Remote Sensing (e.g. remote Raman or LIBS, hyperspectral imaging, photogrammetry, LiDAR, geophysical survey) Specialist Services (e.g. human, animal bone, plant, painting, textile or other material conservation or analysis; building conservation or retrofit) X-ray (e.g. XRD, XRF, CT or micro-CT) Other (please specify)

If you have selected 'Other' or 'Specialist Service', please provide details below.

10. Please identify any other internal or external collaborators.

Please limit your response to 2000 characters.

11. Can you enable the work to take place between April 2026 and March 2027?

(Required) Yes No

12. Do you think your proposed project might cost more than £20,000?

(Required) Yes No I'm not sure

13. Apart from the direct costs of completing the work, what other personal expenses do you anticipate incurring in order to undertake the project (e.g. travel, insurance, postage)? Estimates of these costs are also welcome at this stage.

Please limit your response to 2000 characters. (Required)

14. Are there any ethical considerations associated with your project, and are any ethical approval processes required by your organisation(s)?

(Required) Yes No

If yes, provide more details. Please also limit your response to 2000 characters.

15. Do you foresee any reasonable adjustments that may be required to support you in this project?

(Required) Yes No I’m not sure

If yes, provide further details. Please also limit your response to 2000 characters.

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