[Commlist] Call for Applications for Research Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

We are delighted to announce a new call for application for stipends to 
research in the collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.

Call for Applications for 2019-20 Visiting Researcher Stipends at The 
Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter. Deadline: 31 May, 2019

http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/call-for-applications-for-stipends-to-research-at-the-museum-2019-20/

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 
delighted to again be able to offer a small number of stipends for 
2019-2020 to enable research using the collections at The Bill Douglas 
Cinema Museum. We are inviting applications for two categories of award:

*UK stipends*- available to academics, postgraduate students and other 
researchers based in the UK, and are worth up to £500 each.

*International Stipends*– available to scholars and other 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 previous years’ 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 April 30^th 2020.

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.  You can find out more 
about  the collection at www.bdcmuseum.org.uk 
<http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk> . 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. Recent acquisitions include The Pamela Davies Collection of 
photographs related to the career of one of the British film industry’s 
leading continuity supervisors and The Townly Cooke Collection of silent 
film stills and ephemera. 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, including the research papers of Ralph Hyde

Early Cinema 1895-1914

Charlie Chaplin

Silent Cinema, especially in the UK

Sheet Music

Star ephemera

Cinemagoing

Film and material culture

Fiction about film

Film Press-books and campaign material

The films of Bill Douglas

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 or publications or previous 
research 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 31 May 2019. Applicants will be 
informed of the decision of the assessment panel within one month and 
will be expected to undertake their research before the end of April 2020.


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