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Vera Douie Fellowship
at The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University


The Vera Douie Fellowship is a visiting fellowship for original
research in The Women’s Library Collections.  The fellow also
contributes to The Women’s Library public programme as an outcome of
their research, for example in the form of a lecture, display, seminar
or workshop.

The fellowship is for £4,500 for a minimum of two months and does not
include travel or accommodation costs.  The fellow will have use of a
carrel at The Women’s Library.

Applications are welcomed for research into newly catalogued
collections as well as other areas of The Women’s Library’s
collections.  The Library and Archive Catalogues can be searched
online at http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/searchthecollections/


The private donor of the fellowships has requested that applications
from women over 35 should be given priority.

The fellowships are open to anyone currently not employed full time by
a HE Institution and it is not necessary to have a post graduate
degree. The fellowship will be awarded at the end of 2010  to commence
in January 2011.

The fellowship is in conjunction with the Gender Interest Group at
London Metropolitan University.

How to Apply


1.      Write a proposal of 500 words giving details of the research
you want to undertake and what kind of public programme might result
and who it is aimed at  (public event, display, seminar, workshop etc)
2.      Enclose your CV
3.      Give the names of two referees

Please send your applications to Catherine Norman, Audience
Development Assistant, The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan
University, Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT
or email to: [log in to unmask]  The closing date is Friday 5th
November 2010 and interviews are likely to be held mid-end November.


Vera Douie became the librarian of the London National Society for
Women's Service at the Women's Service Library at Marsham St, London
between 1926 and her retirement in 1967. In this role she was the
moving force behind the collection that was the forerunner to the
present Women’s Library.  She was active in the women's movement
throughout her life and was particularly involved in the Association
for Moral and Social Hygiene. During the Second World War she was a
fervent campaigner for equal rights and published 'The Lesser Half' on
behalf of the Women's Publicity Planning Association in 1943,
examining the 'laws, regulations and practices introduced during the
present war, which embody discrimination against women'. After the
war, she also published 'Daughters of Britain: an account of the work
of British women during the Second World War' (1950). When she retired
in 1967, she was awarded the OBE for her life's work. She died in
1979.