This optional module allows you to gain valuable on-the-job experience to complement your academic studies.
Our heritage placements builds on the presence of the Regional Heritage Centre within the department and the Department’s strong relationships with regional and national heritage organisations. The project undertaken as part of the placement can take a variety of forms, and previous projects have included:
- Curating virtual exhibitions
- Repurposing, cataloguing, and contextualising existing resources
- Creating and running public workshops, including for schools or families
- Producing informative literature
- Checking historic inventories
- Working with oral history resources including transcription
- Setting up activity trails
- Rebuilding the online profile of the organisation
Placements are usually completed within one term, and they are assessed via a portfolio of work relating to the placement, including a short reflective essay.
Our previous placement sponsors have included nationally prestigious institutions and organisations such as the Duchy of Lancaster, the National Archives, the National Trust, the RAF Museum, as well as esteemed regional institutions and organisations including Lancashire Archives, Lancaster City Museums and the Armitt Museum, in Ambleside.
