Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global charity that supports research, innovation, and education to make the world a safer place. Our mission is to protect the safety of life and property, and to advance transport and engineering education and research. We have an important role to play in meeting the challenges of today and the future.
We are engineering a safer world by focussing on the biggest safety challenges facing society: Safety at sea; Safety of food; Skills for safety; Safety of digital systems; Safety for a sustainable future; Safety of physical infrastructure; Understanding risk and behaviour to improve safety.
In support of these challenge areas, we are delving into the digital collections of our Heritage & Education Centre to see what lessons can be learnt from the past. Through this micro-internship you will research a relevant theme using our online heritage collections. The resulting ‘Hindsight perspectives’ work will begin to enhance our understanding of safety issues by exploring the outcomes of interventions since the mid-nineteenth century.
Your four-day hindsight material review project will include:
Identifying and extracting information relevant to a specific theme
Assessing the best way to present the findings and making the data searchable
Writing a blog on your research findings and on your experience of searching for hindsight information
Social media engagement (Twitter & Facebook posts)
Recording a 3-minute video about your work to promote the Micro-Internship (optional)
Joining a meeting with some of the wider Foundation team to hear about current work on challenge areas
You will be directly supervised by the Applied Research & Outreach Manager with the support of other Foundation team members. The hindsight perspectives research is an ongoing project in collaboration with History & Policy who we will also engage with throughout the four days.
At the end of the micro-internship you will have completed a (mini) rapid literature assessment. This placement will give you the opportunity to gain experience in research, social media engagement, blog writing (this will be published on the Heritage & Education Centre website), attendance at a staff meeting, and insight into our charity and its mission. As such your work will contribute to and help to inform a much larger and ongoing project on ‘Learning from the past’.
