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Journeys of discovery: Enhancing research skills and employability through engagement with museums and collections. Rhianedd Smith Undergraduate Learning Officer Museum of English Rural Life and CETL-AURS. About CETL-AURS. UMACS and MERL. Why use collections?. Structuring research.
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Journeys of discovery: Enhancing research skills and employability through engagement with museums and collections Rhianedd Smith Undergraduate Learning Officer Museum of English Rural Life and CETL-AURS
Finding out more • ‘Beyond the field trip’ by Carin Jacobs in Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship March 2009 • Forthcoming V&A publication • ICOM UMAC Berkeley 2009 – Teaching and Research • Museums Association Conference 2009 • JISC student learning with collections mailing list www.jiscmail.ac.uk/COLLECTIONS-STUDENT-LEARNING Rhi Smith r.smith@reading.ac.uk 0118 378 5628 www.reading.ac.uk/merl www.reading.ac.uk/cetl-aurs