What factors need to be considered when creating a productive work placement? Amanda Lightstone shares 5 tips for creating a programme that benefits both the organisation and the volunteer.
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What is it like to work in a museum, planning the programme of activities, talks and educational events? Julia Kirby, Learning Manager for Birmingham Museums Trust, shared four pieces of advice for getting into heritage education.
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Three education practitioners from Shakespeare's Globe, Chatsworth House and Derry Tower Museum spoke about their career journeys, and why an arts organisation's education department is a valuable asset.
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Are diversity schemes effective? What needs to change? Cultural leaders from galleries and museums discuss ethnic minority participation in the arts and heritage sectors.
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Esther Godfrey works for English Heritage, and spent part of her career there as a Blue Plaques Historian. She explains what the job involves and the impact the blue plaques team make in celebrating London’s past.
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Employees at the Chatsworth stately home describe the challenges of working at a heritage site, and how their modern art collections brings in new audiences.
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Claire Fowler is Education Officer at Chatsworth, a historic estate in the Peak District, and the Bolton Abbey estate in North Yorkshire. The landscapes vary greatly: from the stately home collection, to a garden, park, moorland, river and farmyard.
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Four people at the Derry City Council Museum Service discuss their careers in management, education, archives and genealogy.
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