Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Strategic planning and service manager for archives and museums service, cataloguing, research enquiries, grant writing, project management, line management.

No typical day! A mix of some/all of the above, or something else completely unexpected.

Love of history and organising things!

BA Philosophy, MA Archives and Records Management.

Relevant heritage and other training

After temping for a few months following graduation in 2006, I got a maternity cover in an administrative role in a charity fund-raising department.

They kept me on after my colleague returned from maternity leave.

My job at various times over the 18 months I was there involved events management, donation handling, volunteer management and marketing. While there, I worked with the archives at the hospital for which we fundraising, and decided I wanted to train in Archives and Records Management.

I undertook a 6-month contract as a Records Assistant at a multinational company's offices in London.

I undertook a 12 month contract as an Archives Assistant (Trainee) at a county Record Office.

Between 2009-2010, I did a Masters in Archives and Records Management, for which I was awarded a distinction.

After completing the taught part of the MA, but before completing my dissertation, I started as Archivist at a London borough archives, managing the archives service and team within a museum and archives joint service. After 18 months, when my line manager, the Museum and Archives Manager, was seconded to another role, I was seconded to her post.

After 6 months in this role, an opportunity arose in 2012 to lead the Public and Family History Team at The National Archives. I stayed there for two years before moving to a a role as Deputy Trust Archivist for the NHS Trust I now work for, which is linked to the charity where I worked after graduation, and where I had first got interested in archives.

In 2016 I went on maternity leave, returning to work in Dec 2016 after 7 months. Shortly after this my line manager retired, and following recruitment to his post I was appointed Trust Archivist in May 2017.

I would like to stay in my current role and develop the service. In the future when my daughter is older I would consider undertaking further study, either another masters or a PhD.

The extra-curricular activities you do at uni - writing for the paper, supervising staff in a bar job etc - may be just as useful, if not more so, than the skills you learn on your course.