Student Projects & Placements

AMARC is committed to improving practice across the museum sector through an extensive program of student internships and training to encourage emerging museum workers. Students learn practical skills in team work, project management, data collection, management and reporting. The Museum benefits through learning about current issues, concerns and questions from students as newcomers to the industry. This allows for reflection and improvement to practices.

Students pursuing post-graduate research can work with AMARC on projects that complement the Centre's objectives. Full office facilities are offered such as desk space, computers and access to the Museum's Research Library. A number of students are supervised each year with recent projects including:

• Design and learning in museum exhibitions
• Kids' Island Summative Evaluation
• Australia's Lost Kingdoms Evaluation
• Triggers for family visits
• Use of multimedia in exhibitions: literature review and depth interviews (PDF 84k)
• Evaluation of Community Program, Biodiversity Exhibition
• Catching the harbour exhibition Remedial Evaluation
• School visits to museums: a literature review
• Researching children's drawings
• Human Evolution Exhibition Front-end evaluation (PDF 316k)
• Thylacine Exhibition Summative Evaluation. Mari Yviquel from Brittany, France, worked in AMARC for six months during 2001 and completed a tracking study as part of the Thylacine Exhibition evaluation.
• Exhibitions as Contested Sites: The Role of Museums in Contemporary Society
  Jenny Ellison from Canada is currently working on the role of the media in museum programs in conjunction with the Contested Sites project.

For information about student placements contact Lynda Kelly.

The student project reports are only available in PDF format. The FREE Acrobat Reader is required. If you have trouble accessing the PDFs on this page, please email Lynda Kelly.