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Sandra Brauer

has worked several years as a community engagement specialist in the UK museums and heritage sector. After an undergraduate degree in European Cultural History and an MA in Museum Studies, she engaged hard-to-reach audiences in arts and outreach projects for a local authority in the North East and then led the English engagement strand for English Heritages Britain from Above project. Sandra works as a freelancer in museum education and community engagement.

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Conference report Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2014

Forging Collaboration between Archives, Museums and Academia 2014-11-28

The stunning new home of The Library of Birmingham proved to be a fitting backdrop for The National Archives (TNA) and Research Libraries UKs (RLUK) second collaborative conference "Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities" on October 29th - 30th 2014. This years widened its scope to welcome representatives from the heritage and cultural sectors. More than 270 delegates from over 160 organisations across the UK and overseas discussed the benefits and challenges of cross-sector collaborations and the opportunities of digitality for the sake of broadening collections access for academia and the wider public alike.

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