ISH student lands role at the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage

UCL ISH MSc Sustainable Heritage student, Xueshen Zhu, has been appointed a significant position at the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage.  Xueshen was part of the 2014/15 cohort and wrote her dissertation on the historic Chinese city of Pingyao.  Xueshen described her new role and how the MSc Sustainable Heritage programme helped her for us in her own words:

 ‘I am currently working in Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, dealing with World Heritage List inscription, especially for the analysis of Conservation and factors affecting the Property and heritage monitoring. Generally, I would like to say that it was very useful to learn about heritage conservation work through every module. But I am extremely grateful for the monitoring experience from our modules because there's no related major teaching you how to monitor heritage in China, which really highlights my resume.  Besides, I really appreciate our teaching mode, combining knowledge with practice, providing you a lot of chances to handle projects using what you learnt, which enriches my internship experience as well. Currently in China, the prospect of heritage conservation is getting better and better. Hope you could join conservation work through our MSc degree, just like me.

我目前就职于中国文化遗产研究院，从事申遗工作，主要内容有遗产点现状评估以及监测方案的设计。我们课程总体来说每个MODULE的设置都很有用，但我特别感谢监测分析的学习，因为监测这个内容在中国目前没有相关专业教授，所以给我的简历增色很多。此外，学习+实践这样的模式，能让你快速的将所学的知识通过项目转化为实践经验，而这些经历都可以丰富你的求职履历。目前在中国，遗产保护发展前景非常好，希望你能通过学习我们的课程也像我一样加入中国的遗产保护队伍。’