History of Art collaboration with the University of Florida

• Student Mobility opportunity
• IPDF funded 
• Lead: Professor Nick Pearce
• Web: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/studentlife/studyabroad 

Background

Our partnership with the University of Florida provides postgraduate students with a new international student mobility opportunity. This opens up a first-class international experience to complement and enhance their existing study in the History of Art at Glasgow.

This partnership works to connect the University of Florida’s Museums Studies and their world-class Harn Museum with Glasgow’s programmes in Collecting and Design History and our close relationship with the Hunterian and Glasgow city museums.

The agreement has already been successful with the following achievements:

• University of Glasgow. A collaborative agreement was set up between Glasgow and Florida in 2010. Glasgow students can go on exchange to School of Art and Art History, University of Florida if they are registered on:
  • History of Collecting and Collections;
  • Decorative Arts and Design History;
  • Making and Meaning: Approaches in Technical Art History.
• University of Florida students registered on the M.A. Program in Museum Studies and M.A./PhD Program can come on exchange to Glasgow.
  • In the academic year 2010-11 saw the first Masters student from Florida to come to Glasgow for a semester, taking options in Collecting and Technical Art History.
    
• The partnership also offers opportunities for exchange between academic and curatorial staff as a way of sharing expertise and pursuing research.

This student mobility exchange has many benefits including:

• Students and staff from both institutions can access world-class expertise and thus enhance employability,
• Opportunities (often unique) offered to enhance the student experience and undertake research,
• The University of Florida has a unique relationship with a large number of important cultural institutions which give it a privileged position,
• The work complements and enhances the existing programmes at both universities.

Further opportunities

This new partnership has the potential to develop further and offer:

• more student exchanges,
• work placements,
• exhibition exchanges,
• more shared research.