Making a Difference: NatSCA Conference and AGM 2025

NatSCA Conference & AGM 2025

The Annual Conference & AGM of the Natural Sciences Collections Association will be held on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th May 2025 at The University of Manchester, Manchester Museum.

The conference will be held in the Kanaris conference room at Manchester Museum.

Making a Difference

Showing the Positive Impact of Natural History Collections

Natural history collections are involved in a huge range of work that has enormous positive impacts on people and the planet – this is a conference to share these stories. The #NatSCA2025 conference invites proposals for presentations looking at impact, how our work is making a difference, how we measure it, how we show success, and how we advocate for collections.

Download the Programme here [PDF]
Conference Abstracts [PDF]

Networking and Conference Meal - Thursday 8th May

19.00 onwards
A conference meal will be at Zouk, an Indian and Pakistani restaurant, at 7pm Thursday 8th May. Places at the meal can be booked alongside your conference attendance.
https://zoukteabar.co.uk/

Booking

The conference is a hybrid event, with attendees able to attend in person or online via Zoom. Online attendance covers both days. There is no early-bird rate for online attendance. Physical attendance prices are listed below.
Members - please contact membership@natsca.org for your promotional code to release discounted tickets. Please note, institutional members may claim up to two discounted places. If you'd like to become a member please use the same email address.
Due to limited venue capacity, the conference is limited to 90 places.

Please note, NatSCA is not VAT registered and no VAT is being charged.

Meetings Policies

As a NatSCA led event, this event is subject to our meetings policies, which can be found here.