MA in stained glass conservation and heritage management at York University

University's stained glass degree is a first for history
21 June 2008
Yorkshire Post


A new postgraduate course in stained glass is said to be the only one of its type in the English-speaking world. The MA in stained glass conservation and heritage management at York University will combine academic study and practical training and is aimed a satisfying high international demand for conservators.

Staff at the university say the course will take advantage of York's extraordinary collections of medieval and post-medieval glass. Course director Sarah Brown is combining her new role with being head of research policy for places of worship at English Heritage and director of the York Glaziers Trust.

She said: "We are developing the study of stained glass to meet the international demand for trained conservators specialising in the field. The course will be the first of its kind in the English-speaking world."

Ms Brown said stained glass has been a focus for academic study at the university since it was founded in the 1960s. York is now the base for the British arm of the Corpus Vitrearum - the international stained glass recording project. In the two-year course students will have a five-month placement at conservation workshops in Britain, Europe or the US. The course aims to take up to eight students a year from in October. The university aims to offer a research degree later.