Sorry, I couldn't find any information on this at first (the Museums
Association doesn't have any info on their website). The University of
Leicester are advertising the traineeships but the closing date is 2nd
August (i.e. Friday) (although the deadline for Bristol museum's one is 12
August). The website immediately below lists how to apply/who to apply to
(the relevant information is directly beneath the huge table at the top of
the web page). 
If you are interested, you might just be able to get an application in
before the deadline. 

http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/quicklist.htm

Again, very sorry this is such short notice.
Jason

At 14:34 24/07/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks for the information!  Can the advertised trainteeships be posted out
>to BASA and BASA Research Resouces listserv members?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Lim [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 23 July 2002 18:36
>To: joy johnson; John Ellis; patrick vernon; carolyn abel; parminder
>mann; oku ekpenyon; jonah albert; sean creighton; cliff pereira; Caz
>Bressey; marikas; Hakim Adi; roiyah saltus-blackwood;
>[log in to unmask]; Lloyd Forster; Carol Dixon; Linda Ali
>Subject: Diversify
>
>
>Hello
>
>Today I attended a lunch event to launch the next stage of the Museums
>Association "Diversify" project. This project is a positive-action
>traineeship scheme which aims to encourage minority ethnic people to take
>up careers in museums and galleries. The scheme partners training providers
>with museums and galleries, often based around the newly emerging regional
>hubs. The trainees gain work experience at the museums while completing a
>postgraduate qualification (often an MA in Museums Studies) at the training
>institution. Bursaries are provided to the trainees. The scheme has been
>running for since 1998, and there are trainees now in place. The scheme is
>being expanded to many more institutions across the country with the aim of
>offering traineeships or bursaries to at least 50 people by the end of 2006.
>
>
>A number of traineeships are now being advertised. (One of them is a two
>year Trainee Assistant Curator at the Grange Museum in Brent (£14,907 pa),
>with associated MA in Museums Studies at UCL. Appl pack 020 8937 3600;
>[log in to unmask]  )
>There are also traineeships being hosted by:
>- Bristol Museums and Art Gallery in partnership with Exeter, Plymouth,
>Bournemouth and Poole Museums Services; 
>- Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry;
>- Harris Museum and Art Gallery of Preston in partnership with Manchester
>City Galleries and Lancashire County Museum Service; 
>- Wolverhampton Art Gallery. 
>
>The scheme are part of Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and
>Libraries's 'Renaissance in the Regions' proposals, hence the organisation
>around the emerging regional infrastructure. Resource is one of the major
>funders of the project. 
>
>The scheme seems to be quite a positive step to increase the participation
>of minority ethnic individuals in museum and gallery careers. The Museums
>Association boast that they have some of the best expertise on positive
>action schemes behind the project. I spoke to several people at the event.
>Although the Diversify scheme itself is very welcome, I got the sense that
>there was less of an organised effort to promote best practice amongst
>museums and galleries in terms of being able to retain and promote minority
>ethnic staff once they had entered these careers. Certainly, one of the
>project leaders did not seem to be able to tell me about any specific
>concrete steps being taken in this direction. Also, efforts at getting
>minority ethnic communities and individuals to be interested in museums and
>consider museums careers as worthy in the first place were widely
>recognised but seem to be left mainly up to individual museums (although I
>might be missing some of the story on this). 
>
>There was also a gap between the examples given by some of the project
>leaders about how museums were making their exhibitions more relevant to
>minority ethnic communities, and the examples of this work given to me by
>individuals working in the museums themselves. So, while the project
>leaders talked about valuable, but all too familiar, exhibitions on
>transatlantic slavery and colonialism, several of the people I met from
>museums talked more about projects relating to Black and Asian history and
>culture in Britain (e.g. projects at Birmingham Museum about history of
>Black music in Britain, about representations of Black and Asian women in
>art). There was a feeling amongst this latter group of people that in some
>of the museums they have worked in, there is still a divide between the
>older, more established staff and culture which was fairly resistant to
>change, and some of the newer members, along with a few directors noting
>which way the political wind is blowing, who were more sympathetic to what
>they were trying to do. All fairly predicable, I suppose. 
>
>Anyway, you can find out more details about Diversify at the following web
>address: 
>
>http://www.infosite.co.uk/masite/diversify/
>
>Best 
>Jason
>
>
>
>
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> University College London
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 Jason Lim
 University College London
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