Ironbridge Institute

Postgraduate Opportunities at the Ironbridge Institute

The Ironbridge Institute in Coalbrookdale offers highly regarded vocational courses. The Institute is a dynamic partnership between the University of Birmingham and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, with the unrivalled advantage of its location in a World Heritage Site and with ten award-winning museums on its doorstep.

• Heritage Management – MA and Postgraduate Diploma
• Heritage Management – MA and Postgraduate Certificate by Distance Learning
• Industrial Archaeology – MA and Postgraduate Diploma
• Historic Environment Conservation – MA and Postgraduate Diploma
• Museums Management – Postgraduate Certificate
• Research Degrees – MPhil and PhD

Heritage Management

The MA and Postgraduate Diploma in Heritage Management is appropriate for people working or planning to work in conservation and recording agencies, museums, historic properties, tourism, environmental education, archaeology, landscape design and planning. This popular course is a taught programme that is studied in Ironbridge through flexible 3-week modules, which can be taken in any order to suit the student. The four modules are: Heritage Conservation Management, Business Management & Finance for Heritage, Heritage Marketing, and Heritage Interpretation. MA and Postgraduate Certificate courses in Heritage Management are available as Distance Learning options starting around the beginning of October each year. For further information visit http://www.ironbridge.bham.ac.uk/programmes/heritage.shtml

Industrial Archaeology

Students may register for postgraduate research degrees in Industrial Archaeology and Industrial Heritage – MPhil (one year) or PhD (three years). For further details go to http://www.ironbridge.bham.ac.uk/research.shtml.

Historic Environment Conservation

This MA and Postgraduate Diploma programme provides career development training in awareness of the conservation requirements of the historic environment. Through the interweaving of a number of existing training centres in the West Midlands it produces a dynamic course with a strong practical element. It meets the increasing demand for those specifying or writing tenders for rehabilitation work to have a sound understanding and knowledge of appropriate techniques and approaches to such works. Running part time over two years, the taught elements are delivered as non-residential workshop weekends that run from Friday mornings to Saturday afternoons. In the first year there are five weekend courses, one a month from October to February, covering the core theory. Practical Application workshops run the following year from April to October. This structure has been designed specifically for those in employment who have to reconcile their work requirements and their wish to upgrade their skills. Individual workshop weekends or days are also available as CPD options. For further information visit www.ironbridge.bham.ac.uk

Museums Management

The Certificate in Museums Management provides the taught and research elements of the Museums Association Route D qualification, a vocational training route to accreditation to AMA (Associate of the Museums Association) status. Candidates have to have three years of work experience in museums as an entry requirement. The programme consists of two modules: a taught module of 10 days, and a workplace module. The teaching is concentrated on eight specific days within the existing Heritage Management modules. The remaining two days are focused on site visits. For further information visit www.ironbridge.bham.ac.uk

For information on the Museum Association accreditation routes, visit their website at www.museumsassociation.org and select Professional Development.

Research Degrees

The Ironbridge Institute welcomes enquiries from anyone interested in studying for a higher degree by research. Students can register to study for either an MPhil or PhD. Informal enquiries can be made directly to the Institute at the address below. For further information on any of the above programmes, visit the Ironbridge Institute website at ironbridge.bham.ac.uk or contact the Programme Administrator, Janice Fletcher on j.p.fletcher@bham.ac.uk

Tel: 00 44 (0)1952 432751

Fax: 00 44 (0)1952 435937