The IHBC has launched its new application forms specially designed to help those seeking to become Associates of the IHBC, <\/u>our new membership category aimed at helping built and historic environment conservation practitioners progress more easily towards full accredited membership of the institute by offering recognition in conservation skills that reflect their own primary area of specialist practice.<\/u><\/p>\n
IHBC Membership Secretary Paul Butler said: \u2018Associate membership serves as a critical new \u2018stepping stone\u2019 to full membership of the IHBC, where multi-disciplinary conservation skills are tested, recognised and supported through CPD.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018To help cultivate a person\u2019s multi-disciplinary competences in conservation, we offer Associate membership in three membership sub-categories: Evaluation, Management and Intervention. These correspond to generic areas of conservation practice \u2013 what we call the IHBC\u2019s \u2018Areas of Competence\u2019 \u2013 that reflect and encompass more traditional disciplines involved in the understanding, care and enhancement of our valued places\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018With the launch of these new application forms – which we have tailored for applicants seeking particular sub-categories of Associate membership \u2013 the IHBC can offer another tier of career and learning support for practitioners.\u00a0 And this new tier is captured in the Associate\u2019s post-nominals, ‘AssocIHBC’.<\/p>\n
IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: \u2018Our new category of Associate membership reflects our response to a clear need in the sector, one adopted at our AGM back in 2013.\u00a0 This new membership category extends our capacity to support practitioners from all backgrounds as they develop recognisable and specialist knowledge in conservation principles, practice and advice.\u00a0 We all know that conservation is an interdisciplinary practice that depends on multi-disciplinary skills, and this new category responds to the reality that people typically develop multi-disciplinary skills on a foundation of experience wrought in a single discipline\u2019.<\/p>\n
Kate Kendall, IHBC\u2019s LETS Liaison Officer responsible for member and volunteer support across the IHBC\u2019s learning, education, training and standards operations, said: ‘The new Associate category provides Affiliate members with the opportunity of a new \u2018stepping stone\u2019 to full membership. For affiliates that feel the full membership application might be a step too far at the moment then this could be the approach for you.\u00a0 Taking some of the pressure off is the fact that you are able to focus on the area of competence that best reflects your core practice and skills base, whether it corresponds to evaluation, management or intervention in the built and historic environment.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018On achieving accreditation as an Associate, your conservation credentials can be acknowledged by virtue of the \u2018AssocIHBC\u2019 post-nominals. You then have the opportunity to focus on the areas you need to reinforce your knowledge to attain full membership in the long term.\u2019<\/p>\n
The IHBC writes:
\n<\/u>The three categories of Associate members are best described as follows:<\/p>\n
Evaluation<\/u>: Accreditation as an IHBC Associate in \u2018Evaluation\u2019 means that you should describe yourself as an \u2018IHBC Associate, accredited in conservation practice that evaluates change in the built and historic environment\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n Management<\/u>: Accreditation as an IHBC Associate in \u2018<\/u>Management\u2019 means that you may describe yourself as an \u2018IHBC Associate, accredited in conservation practice that manages change in the built and historic environment\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n Intervention<\/span>: Accreditation as an IHBC Associate in \u2018Intervention\u2019 means that you should describe yourself as an \u2018IHBC Associate, accredited in conservation practice that generates change in the built and historic environment\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n Download the forms that reflect best your primary area of practice:<\/p>\n Evaluation<\/a>:<\/u>\u00a0which typically represents skills sets associated with the activities of historians, archaeologists, historic buildings inspectors and advisers, some surveyors and others involved in determining the nature and cultural values of the built and historic environment<\/p>\n Management<\/a>: which is typically for planners, conservation officers, some project managers and building preservation trust officers and heritage site and city managers, and others involved in managing change in the built and historic environment<\/p>\n Intervention<\/a>: which reflects skills sets of architects, engineers, urban design and regeneration specialists, as well as some developers, crafts and trades people, contractors, project managers and building preservation trust officers, and others involved in work that generates change in the built and historic environment<\/p>\n further details…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IHBC has launched its new application forms specially designed to help those seeking to become Associates of the IHBC, our new membership category aimed at helping built and historic environment conservation practitioners progress more easily towards full accredited membership … Continue reading