TY - JOUR
TI - Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer
	collaboration between University Museums
AU - Lacey, Pippa
AU - Falk, Seb
AU - Jaffer, Aaron
AU - Jelinek, Alana
TI - Connecting with Collections: Research Internships promoting closer
	collaboration between University Museums
AB - 
	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.
	 
VL - Volume 21 (2013)
IS - Volume 21
PY - 2015
SN - 0239-9989
C1 - 2084-3852
SP - 15
EP - 33
DO - 10.4467/20843852.OM.13.002.2912
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/connecting-with-collections-research-internships-promoting-closer-collaboration-between-university-museums
KW - Keywords: University of Cambridge Museums
KW - Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
KW - Cambridge University Botanic Garden
KW - Museum of Classical Archaeology
KW - Fitzwilliam Museum
KW - The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
KW - Museum of Zoology
KW - Early Career Rese