Professional Development Awards
In 2007 The Glaziers’ Trust introduced short duration Professional Development Awards aimed at assisting practitioners in the craft with at least five years' working experience who seek to expand and/or enhance their professional skills.
These Awards are intended to assist professionals who cannot afford to leave their work for long periods to work towards the attainment of Accredited status as conservators, or to widen their creative skills. They address the importance of continuing professional development for all practitioners.
The award offers financial support (tuition + subsistence) for improving a skill, or learning and practising a new one, under the supervision of a senior practitioner. Tuition may take the form of short courses or studio placements under the direction of suitable senior experts in their fields.
Awards could, for example, assist an applicant to attend a masterclass, or an advanced glass painting course; to learn about mortars and stonework installation; to seek tuition about glass chemistry; to shadow a fellow professional in order to learn a skill not already possessed, such as edge bonding or glass cleaning, or another skill that the applicant can demonstrate is needed to enhance working practices. Stained glass conservators might use an award for tuition to bring them to accreditation level in a specific skill in which they are lacking.
It is a condition of receiving an Award that recipients will be required to submit a brief illustrated report of the tuition undertaken, showing how it has enhanced their working practices.
The aim of all the Glaziers’ Company’s Awards is to raise standards of work within the craft, particularly in the UK, by offering additional learning opportunities to enhance skills.
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