{"id":3644,"date":"2021-07-06T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:02:56","slug":"swwdtp-student-isabel-wiltshire-talks-about-her-placement-with-the-museum-of-the-royal-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/swwdtp-student-isabel-wiltshire-talks-about-her-placement-with-the-museum-of-the-royal-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"SWWDTP student Isabel Wiltshire talks about her placement with the Museum of the Royal Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I saw that the Museum of the Royal Navy were offering a student placement through the SWW DTP in object conservation, I leapt at the chance to apply. I am currently studying for a PhD in Archaeology but before that, I had been working and volunteering in the heritage sector in conservation. I was therefore really excited about this opportunity to expand my skills and knowledge in this area.<\/p>\n<p>I got the position and spent six weeks working closely with Morgan Creed, the conservator at the museum. I spent most of my time conserving objects that were going on display in a newly refurbished gallery, but I also helped Morgan out with some of her other duties as a conservator. These included monitoring environmental and pest data on board the ships and installing a protective backing to W. L. Wyllie&#8217;s Panorama of Trafalgar. You can read more about the work I did here (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmrn.org.uk\/news-events\/nmrn-blog\/student-isabel-shares-her-conservation-placement\">https:\/\/www.nmrn.org.uk\/news-events\/nmrn-blog\/student-isabel-shares-her-conservation-placement<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Through this placement, I gained new skills and experience in conservation and learnt about how conservators work alongside curators and other museum teams. Whilst this will not be immediately useful for my research, I am interested in working in this area once I have completed my PhD and this opportunity will be extremely valuable for my future career.<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmrn.org.uk\">www.nmrn.org.uk<\/a> \/\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatMuseumRN\">@NatMuseumRN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SWWDTP-Isabel-Wiltshire-placement-Images-for-websitenewsletter-500x--300x150.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SWWDTP-Isabel-Wiltshire-placement-Images-for-websitenewsletter-500x--300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SWWDTP-Isabel-Wiltshire-placement-Images-for-websitenewsletter-500x-.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brass treadplate from H.M.S. Orion before and after treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; When I saw that the Museum of the Royal Navy were offering a student placement through the SWW DTP in object conservation, I leapt at the chance to apply. I am currently studying for a PhD in Archaeology but before that, I had been working and volunteering in the heritage sector in conservation. I&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}