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Call for Applications for 2018 Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter. http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/ The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University Exeter, UK is both a public museum and a rich research resource for scholars of moving image history. The museum is named after the renowned filmmaker Bill Douglas and was founded on the extraordinary collection of material he put together with his friend Peter Jewell. In the twenty years since its opening, the museum has received donations from many sources and now has over 80,000 artefacts on the long history of the moving image from the seventeenth century to the present day. Thanks to the support of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Fund we are again able to offer a small number of stipends this year to enable research using the collections at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. We are inviting applications for two categories of award: UK stipends are available to academics, postgraduate students and other researchers based in the UK, and are worth up to £500 each. International Stipends are for scholars and researchers from outside the UK and are worth up to £1500 each. The monies are to be used for travel and accommodation costs incurred while visiting the Museum to undertake significant research that will be enhanced by access to its collections. Proposed research should contribute to publication or other demonstrable outcomes, such as films or artworks. Successful applicants will be required to write a blog post for the museum's website about their research following their visit. You will find details of last year's stipends and the blogs that stipend holders contributed at http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/research/research-at-the-bill-douglas-cinema-museum/stipends-at-the-bill-douglas-cinema-museum/ The monies must be spent by December 31st 2018. The museum's collections are very diverse, and have the potential to enrich research in histories of film, media and visual culture, cultural and social history, audience and fan studies, media production history, and technological and labour histories of cinema. The collections have particular strengths in 'Pre-cinema' optical media, cinema ephemera and material culture and we also hold some production papers relating to key British independent filmmakers: Bill Douglas, Don Boyd, James Mackay and Gavrik Losey. We are particularly keen to receive applications for the study of areas of distinctive strength in the collections, such as the following: Optical Toys Magic lanterns Panoramas and Dioramas Early Cinema 1895-1914 Charlie Chaplin Sheet Music Star ephemera Cinemagoing Film and material culture Fiction about film Film Press-books and campaign material The films of Bill Douglas, and independent cinema in Britain since the 1970s. To apply please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with a one page CV covering key academic achievements, publications or previous research projects and a proposal of up to 1,000 words outlining: 1) Your planned use of the museum's collections 2) The expected outcomes from the research and its contribution to the field of study including publication plans. 3) An outline of the expected costings of your visit. The deadline for applications is 4 May 2018. Applicants will be informed of the decision of the assessment panel within one month and will be expected to undertake their research during 2018. Dr. Phil Wickham Curator The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum University of Exeter Old Library Prince of Wales Road Exeter Devon EX4 4SB 01392 724321 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Find The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum on Facebook [facebookicon] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-Douglas-Centre/148597838525284 and Twitter @bdcmuseum -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. 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