The Trustees of the TC Foundation are delighted that the MPhil Book and Archival Materials Conservation programme will welcome its first cohort of students in September this year.
This new programme is modelled on the internationally renowned MPhil Textile Conservation and, there being many synergies between textile and paper conservation, the students will work together in a number of aspects of their practical and academic work.
The TC Foundation awarded a grant to the Centre for the detailed development of the programme and are supporting this important new programme by raising funds for student bursaries.
The Trustees are delighted to announce that the first, and most generous, grant for bursaries for students on the MPhil Books and Archival Materials Conservation has been awarded by the Pilgrim Trust, which is well known for its support of conservation and of conservation and craft education.
Professor Nick Pearce, Chair of the TC Foundation, said: “The TC Foundation is enormously grateful to the Trustees of the Pilgrim Trust for their generous award. This early support from such a major funder is a major vote of confidence that will hugely boost our efforts to secure support from other funders.”
Like the textile conservation course, the book and paper programme is a vocational and academic education, offering students the opportunity to focus on the specialist areas of either conservation for books and archival materials, or conservation of paper including photographic media. Students of both conservation programmes benefit from the Centre’s close working relationship with The Hunterian and Glasgow Museums and other institutions within the heritage sector in Scotland and further afield.