IIC Career Advice Sessions 2025

Last year the IIC introduced a new initiative, ‘Career Advice Session’, led by Duygu Çamurcuoğlu, to support our Student and Early Career members with their career development. Due to the interest in these sessions, we are thrilled to be running 6 sessions in 2025.

Our aim is to continue to foster an environment of generosity and knowledge and is designed to provide a platform where you can discuss various aspects of career advancement and advice.

Participants can sign-up for a 15-minute individual 1-1 slot to discuss all things career-related. The topics for discussion are led by you and can include:
- CV’s
- Portfolios
- Navigating job applications
- Harnessing social media for job hunting
- PhD opportunities
- exploring international work experiences
- strategizing career growth.

These sessions are free and open to our Student and Early Career members. These sessions are a great sounding board and opportunity to gain guidance, perspective and constructive feedback on your career aspirations and decisions.

We always aim to be as accessible as possible, so we've set the sessions to work across multiple time zones to support members across the world.

Session 1: Wednesday 5 Feb 9.30 am – 11.00 am (GMT/ UK time) with Ashley Lingle, FIIC

Session 2: Wednesday 26 March 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm (GMT/ UK time) with Duygu Çamurcuoğlu, FIIC

Session 3: Wednesday 28 May 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm (BST/ UK time) with Duygu Çamurcuoğlu, FIIC

Session 4: Wednesday 30 July 9.30 am – 11.00 am (BST/UK time) with Bill Wei, FIIC

Session 5: Wednesday 24 September 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm (BST/ UK time) with Duygu Çamurcuoğlu, FIIC

Session 6: Wednesday 26 Nov 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm (GMT/ UK time) with Rebecca Rushfield, FIIC

If you need assistance with time conversion, we recommend this website here.

To register for Session 1, please follow the link here. We only have 6 sessions per clinic available so sessions will be on a first come, first served basis. 
 

About Dr. Duygu Çamurcuoğlu
Dr Duygu Çamurcuoğlu ACR, FIIC is a Senior Inorganic Objects Conservator at the British Museum, London. She has extensive experience leading international conservation projects, in project management, training and teaching cultural heritage conservation in the UK and abroad. She is well-connected both nationally and internationally, and actively collaborates with international conservation institutions, such as IIC and ICOM-CC. She is an Icon Accreditation assessor and mentor, supporting colleagues to successfully move forward in their careers.

Her main interest areas are research into archaeological materials, interpretation and display of objects in museums, conservation research, building international collaborations, training and career development in conservation, leadership in conservation.

If you have any questions or require any assistance, then please get in touch with Ellie Sweetnam at ellie.sweetnam@iiconservation.org

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