%0 Journal Article
%T Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer
	collaboration between University Museums
%A Lacey, Pippa
%A Falk, Seb
%A Jaffer, Aaron
%A Jelinek, Alana
%J Opuscula Musealia
%V Volume 21 (2013)
%R 10.4467/20843852.OM.13.002.2912
%N Volume 21
%P 15-33
%K Keywords: 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 Rese
%@ 0239-9989
%D 2015
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/connecting-with-collections-research-internships-promoting-closer-collaboration-between-university-museums
%X 
	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.