Undergraduate Sandwich Intern: Enhancing Kew's collections
Undergraduate Sandwich Intern: Enhancing Kew's collections
Full Title: Undergraduate Sandwich Intern: Enhancing Kew’s ethnobotany collections through digital integration of documentation and specimens
Kew’s Economic Botany Collection holds around 100,000 specimens of plant raw material and objects of great scientific and cultural importance. This project will enhance its use for source communities and other researchers by reuniting, reidentifying and reattaching objects/specimens to lost and unrecorded information.
Using various sources such as conservation reports, journal articles, Museum Lists, index cards and other object/specimen documentation, the student will be digitising and integrating physical record data onto our Integrated Collections Management Database to enrich objects digital records. An important part of the project will also be accessioning recent donations of ethnobotanical specimens, undertaking the process from databasing to museum storage.
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The postholder would be expected to focus on several object/collections case studies, resulting in various outreach activities such as writing blogs and hosting community-based events. They will also be responsible for documentation management and writing of procedures for collection and provenance-based research. Equally, this will be a curatorial role, responsible for assisting the Collection Manager in cataloguing, accessioning, loans, research requests, hosting visitors and more.
This post would be particularly suitable for applicants with experience of working with collections, or who are interested in exploring a career in Science, Biocultural and/or Natural History Collections.
Please state your education dates in your application.
This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.
We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history.
Join us on our journey as protectors of the world’s plants and fungi.
The salary for this position is £24,535 per annum (pro rata) [Intern Grade]
Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application through the online portal, by clicking “Apply for this job”.
We are dedicated to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to interview disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.
No agencies please.