Professional Experience to Enhance your Employability

Special Collections and the Bill Douglas Centre offer opportunities for University of Exeter students to gain professional experience working with our unique collections. Tasks can range from helping to box-list and sort newly acquired archive material to researching biographical information on a literary or historical figure, or mounting an exhibition of film memorabilia.  

Find out what it's like to gain work experience in Special Collections by following this link.

Student placements in Heritage Collections count towards the Exeter Award and can help to increase your employment prospects when you leave the University.  If you would like more information please contact the following:

For Archives and Special Collections, Dr Christine Faunch, Head of Heritage Collections on C.J.Faunch@exeter.ac.uk, or Sue Inskip, on S.M.Inskip@exeter.ac.uk

For the Bill Douglas Centre, contact Phil Wickham, Curator, Bill Douglas Centre on P.J.Wickham@exeter.ac.uk