Heritage Exhibition Researcher

Help us develop our heritage exhibition programme in 51 Lime Street, our new venue in the heart of Ouseburn Valley.

Join our research team on our next heritage project, lasting approximately 6 months.

You will be researching a chosen topic and help prepare material for our next exciting exhibition. This is a chance to contribute to a local heritage and community space. Volunteering hours are flexible.

The Ouseburn Trust has an abiding commitment to celebrating and preserving the heritage of the Valley. We have an ongoing photographic and oral history archive and have run a series of short heritage projects.

Through this role, you will:

• Play a vital role in creating a memorable, pleasurable and high-quality experience for our visitors;
• Help encourage the visitor numbers to our community orientated venue
• Get valuable research experience within a heritage sector.
• Delivering short talks / guided tours around the exhibition, once it’s open to the public
• Come up with ideas and help organise events (e.g. talks, performances) relevant to the exhibition

Ouseburn Heritage Exhibition Researcher – Ouseburn Trust

Skills

• Carry out research on dedicated topic (by collecting, recording, and analysing information)
• Access different databases online, in libraries etc.
• Keep your own database of relevant texts and pictures
• Interpret collected information and draw conclusions
• Attend team meetings and sharing your research progress
• Write up a concise text for exhibition boards

Volunteers should be clear from the outset about what is private research (and their own copyright), and research done as an Ouseburn Trust volunteer (which will belong to the Trust)