XRF Internship at St Cecilia’s Hall TAGS: harpsichord | Ioannes Couchet | musical instruments | pigment identification | XRF In this week’s blog, we hear from Despoina Papazoglou who was an intern at St Celilia’s Hall from April to June 2019. Her internship focused on the material analysis of …Continue reading →

XRF Internship at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Burke and Hare | conservation science | Egyptian ushabtis | elemental analysis | XRF Find out what our Employ.ed Intern, Cameron Perumal, got up to in the final weeks of her project at the CRC in this week’s blog… As I near the end …Continue reading →

Scientific Analysis of Heritage Collections using XRF – Employ.ed Internship 2019 TAGS: Employ.ed Internship | X-ray Fluorescence | XRF This week’s blog post comes from Cameron Perumal who recently began a 10-week Employ.ed internship in the Conservation Studio at the CRC…  Two weeks into my Employ.ed internship, and I …Continue reading →

Completion of the Thomson-Walker Project TAGS: CMC poultice | Thomson Walker collection In this week’s blog our final Thomson-Walker Intern, Giulia, talks about the completion of the Thomson-Walker project and her experience of working at the CRC… We did it! The conservation …Continue reading →

Session Paper Project Internship TAGS: Scottish Session Papers | surface cleaning | tear repair My name is Claire and I am the first intern to work with Nicole on the Session Papers Project.  I am due to graduate with a master’s degree in paper …Continue reading →

Thomson-Walker Internship – Round 5! TAGS: medical portraits | Thomson-Walker Our final Thomson-Walker intern introduces herself in this week’s blog post…. “I feel like a pastry chef!”: this was my first thought while trying to smear an even layer of …Continue reading →

Thomson-Dunlop Research and Conservation Internship Our blog this week comes from Michela Albano, who recently spent four weeks working with our Musical Instrument Conservator, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet… Thanks to the Thomson-Dunlop Research and Conservation …Continue reading →

Thompson-Walker Internship TAGS: Internship | Thomson-Walker This week, we have a final blog post from Irene, our fourth Thomson-Walker Intern…. Times goes by so quickly, and I am already reaching the last week of my internship …Continue reading →

Thomson-Walker Internship – Round 4! This week’s blog comes from our newest Thomson-Walker intern, Irene García Bustos. Irene is the fourth in the series of interns to conserve the Thomson-Walker collection of medical portraits. You …Continue reading →

Interactive Integrated Pest Management TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | e-learning | employ.ed | Integrated pest managment | preventive conservation The final post from Sophie Lawson, our conservation Employ.ed intern, in this week’s blog… We are approaching the end of our Conservation E-learning project, with a completed trial resource being …Continue reading →