Debs Hext worked at the Museum from October 2009 to May 2010 as a student placement from the Museum and Galleries Studies course at the University of St Andrews.
Debs was involved in the redisplay of the Lost Generation cabinet, which shows medals, personal items and memorial plaques for men who fought and died during the First World War. Debs also researched the era and the medals on display, and produced labels and interpretation panels.