[ecrea] Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum - Call for Applications 2018

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 31^st 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 (bdc /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(bdc /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>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.


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