Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer collaboration between University Museums
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Publication date: 24.03.2015
Opuscula Musealia, Volume 21 (2013), Volume 21, pp. 15-33
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843852.OM.13.002.2912Authors
Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer collaboration between University Museums
During 2013, the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) introduced an innovative research internship initiative aimed at early career academic researchers. The Connecting with Collections (CwC) scheme offered six interns from British universities the opportunity to gain hands-on museum experience, while working independently on individual research projects within the collections of the UCM consortium.
This paper presents: 1. An Overview of Connecting with Connections Scheme: programme rationale, aims and funding, recruitment and project choice. 2. Training and Opportunities: group training sessions, as well as snapshots of individual experiences within the museums and 3. Internship Outputs: including an end-of-internship Symposium and other outcomes for interns. It briefly surveys the six internship projects before drawing some conclusions about the CwC programme and highlighting some of the debates around the future direction of the internship scheme for UCM.
University of Cambridge Museums, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Museum of Zoology, Early Career Researchers, Research Internships, Training, Internship Programme
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Information: Opuscula Musealia, Volume 21 (2013), Volume 21, pp. 15-33
Article type: Original article
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Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer collaboration between University Museums
University of Cambridge Museums
University of Cambridge Museums
University of Cambridge Museums
University of Cambridge Museums
Published at: 24.03.2015
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