[ecrea] Collaborative doctorate - The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture

*The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture*

*Fully-Funded Collaborative Doctorate with Watershed Cultural Cinema 
Bristol, UWE Bristol and Exeter Universities *

**

An exciting opportunity has arisen to undertake a collaborative 
doctorate analysing the role of independent cinema in the age of 
on-demand culture, beginning in October 2019. The project explores 
independent cinema’s approach to curation, audience development and 
community-building; its relationships with funders and policymakers at 
local, regional, national and international levels; and the strategies 
it has developed to survive in the face of far-reaching changes to the 
ways in which films are distributed, exhibited and consumed notably the 
emergence of Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) services. The project 
will focus on the role of Watershed Cultural Cinema in Bristol 
https://www.watershed.co.uk/ but also engage with the UK independent 
film exhibition centre as a whole.

You will be jointly supervised by Mark Cosgrove, the Film Curator at 
Watershed, Professor Andrew Spicer at UWE Bristol and Dr James Lyons at 
Exeter University. The studentship is fully funded for three years 
within the South, West and Wales (SWW2) Doctoral Training Partnership 
and you will enjoy all the advantages of working within that 
collaborative framework that includes a number of training events.

For further details please go to the SWW2 website: 
https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/prospective-students/apply/

If you have any questions or queries about this doctorate, please 
contact Andrew Spicer in the first instance: (andrew2.spicer /at/ uwe.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(andrew2.spicer /at/ uwe.ac.uk)>.

In order to be considered for this opportunity, you need to send an 
Expression of Interest to Andrew Spicer by email. This should contain 
the following:

·Name

·Contact Details

·Educational Background and Qualifications

·A statement (up to 1,000 words) that explains:

1.Why you wish to apply for this collaborative doctorate

2.How you would approach investigating this subject

3.What you see as the advantages in working with Watershed, UWE Bristol 
and Exeter

4.In what way your interests, education and existing knowledge makes you 
well suited to undertake this project

We need to receive your Expression of Interest by *17.00 on Thursday 3 
January 2019* at the latest. Please note that you must be available to 
be interviewed in Bristol on *Friday* *11 January 2019*.

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