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NECT's Heritage Skills Initiative bursary placements |
 North of England Civic Trust are currently recruiting for eight full-time and one part-time traineeships for their 2012-13 intake of Engineering HSI trainees. For more information about individual placements, or to download the application form, see the NECT website .
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New interns blog post - Plastics, preservation and prosthetic limbs |
 Margaret Smith is a current Icon Intern in Conservation Science, working across a variety of analytical projects for four partners: University of Glasgow, National Museums Scotland, Glasgow Life and the University of Strathclyde. The first three months were spent at the analytical research labs of the Conservation and Analytical Research Section at National Museums Scotland - read more about Margaret's experience here .
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New interns blog post - feathers |
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Lucie Graham is a current Icon Intern based at the Natural History Museum. Read her review of the recent Feather conservation workshop held at Norwich Castle:
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 On 27 October at 2pm the House of Lords’ Grand Committee debate the controversial National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Icon's partner Heritage Alliance delivered its briefing to Peers on the NPPF a couple of days ago; you can read it here.
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Exploring The National Archives |
 On the 5th September a group of Icon interns visited the Collections Care department at the National Archives. Led by book and paper conservation intern Lindsey Gibson and her supervisor Linda Eells, the focus of the day was on preservation and collections management activities. The group were given a tour of the archives, before a series of presentations and discussions covering topics such as risk management, environmental monitoring and pest prevention. Click here to find out more.
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Textile Society's Professional Development Award |
 Previous intern Leanne Tonkin (Textile Conservation, People’s History Museum, 2009) was a runner up in the Textile Society’s Professional Development Award for 2011. Leanne received recognition for presenting a research poster at Symposium 2011, entitled ‘Preserving an English Coal Scuttle: Defining the Suitability of Lascaux in treating an early 19th century Silk Bonnet c.1845’. The poster concentrates on the application of an acrylic based adhesive to treat a crushed silk bonnet known as the ‘coal scuttle’, which belongs to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Leanne’s work with adhesives is crucial in the world of textile conservation as new adhesives are being developed as old ones are removed from use. For more information, visit the Textile Society’s website .
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