Posted by The Law School
10 April 2025Huge congratulations to everyone involved with the GLAM-E Lab. The team has just won an award in the Widening Participation category of the GW4 Open Research Awards.
The awards celebrate and recognise the excellent work of researchers across the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter in making their research more accessible to all, thereby increasing its potential impact.
The judges said this of the GLAM-E lab:
The GLAM-E Lab partners with smaller and less well-resourced cultural institutions and community organisations to research emerging issues in open access and design innovative strategies for the cultural sector. Their work has bridged the gap between client representation and research-informed advocacy to produce more sustainable and scalable open access policies and guidance for low-cost uptake by others.
The panel were deeply impressed by the innovation of this interdisciplinary endeavour to open up cultural heritage collections, using legal frameworks and legal support to enable smaller less well-resourced organisations to open up their collections for researchers and the public.