Career

Since the 1950s we’ve offered an introduction to building conservation on our Repair of Old Buildings Course. Prajakta Deshpande writes about her experience in May. ​

To mark International Women in Engineering day, we asked SPAB Scholar Aoife Murphy to write about her career so far and how she specialised in working with historic buildings.

Every year we offer the learning opportunity of a lifetime to a group of committed young people who work protect and repair old buildings. The Scholarship and Fellowship are prestigious educational programmes that can kickstart a young person’s career in conservation and run from March to December each year. The Scholarship is open to surveyors, architects and engineers and the Fellowship to building craftspeople.

Every year, the SPAB Scholarship gives young architects, surveyors and engineers an opportunity to specialise in conservation work. Over nine months the Scholars travel the country together, gaining invaluable practical experience of how best to repair old buildings.

By Aoife Murphy.

The Scholarship is giving us wonderful access to beautiful buildings and crafts all over the UK. It’s difficult to choose a blog topic.