LAHP Placement Event – 25th June 2024
Join us at the Royal College of Music for the LAHP Placement Event – June 2024.
This event is an opportunity for LAHP students to find out all the latest information about the placement scheme, as well as hear about fellow students’ and supervisor’s experiences. We will also have presentations from our current partners who are offering specific placement opportunities, followed by a networking session where you will be able to speak to the representatives from a variety placement hosts.
Programme details:
LAHP Placement Event
Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2BS
2-5pm Tuesday 25th June 2024
| 14:00-14:15 | Arrival/Registration (in foyer of the main entrance on Prince Consort Road) |
| 14:15-15:30 | (Performance Hall) LAHP Presentations 14:15 – 14:30 – Introduction from Professor Robert Adlington, Head of Research & Professor of Musicology at the RCM – LAHP Presentation: Dr Marquard Smith, LAHP Deputy Director for Collaborations and Partnerships and Gillian Harrison, LAHP Senior Support Officer Placement Host Presentations: 14:30 – 14:40 Doug Millard, Deputy Keeper, Technologies and Engineering Science Museum 14:40 – 14:50 Dr Jacques Schuhmacher, Senior Provenance Research Curator, supported by The Polonsky Foundation V&A 14:50 – 15:00 Fiona Wilkie, Doctoral Partnership Manager Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Student Case Studies: 15:00 – 15:15 Student Case Study 1: Varvara Keidan Shavrova (placement at the Science Museum; recipient of the UKRI AHRC IPS Fellowship) 15:15 – 15:30 Student Case Study 2: Arianna Rigamonti (placement at the Royal College of Music Museum) |
| 15:30-16:00 | (Performance Hall) Networking An opportunity for students to chat to our representatives from the Science Museum, V&A, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| 16:00-17:00 | (Café and courtyard) Drinks Reception |