[Commlist] Call for Projects - FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grants 2022

Call for Projects for:

FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grants

Deadline:  April 4, 2022

(FIAT/IFTA World Conference)

*Description and Rationale*

The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of 
Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) is dedicated to fostering collaboration 
between research and archive communities and mediating the growth of 
scholarly expertise that adds value to audiovisual archives by means of 
innovative research. To this purpose, the Media Studies Commission has 
set up the Media Studies Grant as a way to promote and ensure the 
valorization of academic knowledge for archival practice. It is a 
program that offers support for research carried out at FIAT/IFTA member 
archives or is of direct relevance to one or more of our member 
archives. Priority is given to projects that are relevant for the 
history of member archive institutions, or promise innovative insights 
into (digital) media historiography or archival practice in general.

*202**2** Call for Projects*

In 2022, FIAT/IFTA’s Media Studies Commission is looking to commission 
research that adds value to and helps us understand the role of 
audiovisual archives in a shifting, converging media environment. 
Threecore areas of research will be prioritized this year:

 1. *Transnational approaches to the study of audiovisual archives*.
    This includes, but is not limited to:

  * Comparative research carried out across several archive collections;
  * Transnational studies of archived-based productions or television
    programmes with circulation across different countries or whose
    histories can be traced to different audiovisual archive collections
    across the world;
  * In honor of South Africa - the host of the next FIAT/IFTA World
    Conference - we are also encouraging transnational or comparative
    research that looks into representations of South Africa across
    different audiovisual archives.
 2. *Digital tools and experimental methods in media studies research*.
    This includes, but is not limited to:

  * Producing new narratives in media history by means of digital tools
    and experimental research methods;
  * New ways of visualizing (digital) media history that help redefine
    the value of historical archival content;
  * Reframing the historical and public value of audiovisual archives
    with mining and visualization tools;
  * Reconceptualizing archives as (big) data in ways that help us tap
    into unexplored narratives of media history.

 3. *Interactive and innovative research uses of digital archives. *This
    includes, but is not limited to:

**Highlighting new and interactive forms of storytelling that help 
revisit media history practices in the digital age. **

  * Renewing strategies and practices for making archives accessible
    through different digital spaces, including social media and mobile
    apps.
  * Addressing archival access strategies in an international context or
    working with datasets from different archives.
  * Revisiting approaches for researching users and use practices in
    relation to digital archives.

*Objectives*

The Media Studies Grant makes available a maximum of €7000 for original 
and innovative projects that aim to:

  * help us understand the role of audiovisual archives in a digital
    environment.
  * unearth new narratives of media history.
  * collect, disseminate and engage with historical sources that
    complement existing     archive collections.
  * conceptualize new ways of doing media history in the digital age.
  * experiment with innovative methods of researching (digital) archives.
  * valorize and disseminate knowledge of archive collections by means
    of interactive publications, multi-media presentations, digital
    applications and other creative demos.
  * Produce open-source software aimed at a better understanding and
    exploitation of audiovisual archives.
  * Release open-data corpora that would contribute to help further
    media studies.

*  Do you have more questions?***

Please contact our commission members! For questions pertaining to 
access, archival collections and datasets made available for research by 
different archival institutions, you may contact our following members:

Herbert Hayduck (ORF, Austria): (archiv /at/ orf.at) <mailto:(archiv /at/ orf.at)>
Claude Mussou (INA, France): (cmussou /at/ ina.fr) <mailto:(cmussou /at/ ina.fr)>
Silvia Proscia (RAI, Italy): (silvia.proscia /at/ rai.it) 
<mailto:(silvia.proscia /at/ rai.it)>
Daniela Floris (RAI, Italy): (daniela.floris /at/ rai.it) 
<mailto:(daniela.floris /at/ rai.it)>
David Doukhan (INA, France): (ddoukhan /at/ ina.fr) <mailto:(ddoukhan /at/ ina.fr)>
Virginia Bazán Gil (RTVE, Spain): (virginia.bazan /at/ rtve.es) 
<mailto:(virginia.bazan /at/ rtve.es)>
Lisa Kerrigan (BFI, UK): (lisa.Kerrigan /at/ bfi.org.uk) 
<mailto:(lisa.Kerrigan /at/ bfi.org.uk)>
Bas Agterberg (NISV, Netherlands): (bagterberg /at/ beeldengeluid.nl) 
<mailto:(bagterberg /at/ beeldengeluid.nl)>
Liam Wylie (RTÉ, Ireland): (liam.Wylie /at/ rte.ie) <mailto:(liam.Wylie /at/ rte.ie)>

Questions pertaining to academic research can be addressed to:

Dana Mustata, University of Groningen: (d.mustata /at/ rug.nl) 
<mailto:(d.Mustata /at/ rug.nl)>
Andy O’Dwyer, University of Luxembourg: (andy.odwyer /at/ uni.lu) 
<mailto:(andy.odwyer /at/ uni.lu)>

Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University: (jsm /at/ aber.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jsm /at/ aber.ac.uk)>

*Requirements*

  * Candidates are required to send in their application in PDF format
    by 2April 2022

  * Applications should be emailed to: Herbert Hayduck, (archiv /at/ orf.at)
    <mailto:(archiv /at/ orf.at)>

  * Awarded candidates need to sign a funding agreement with FIAT/IFTA
  * Awarded candidates are expected to deliver by the end of their grant
    period:
      o A written report of their research at the quality standards of a
        scholarly article.

      o An audiovisual essay, an interactive digital story or a creative
        demo (depending on the nature of the proposed project). Please
        make sure there are no copyright restrictions for the archival
        material you may want to re-use in this type of output.
  * All output needs to mention the support of FIAT/IFTAand should be
    made available to FIAT/IFTA. Successful candidates are required to
    present their research results at the FIAT/IFTA World Conference
    online, in October 2022.

  * Candidates may be asked for promotional interviews and/or to share
    their research progress during an online session.

  * FIAT/IFTA reserves the right to make accessible the output of funded
    studies on its own website.
  * Proposed studies can be part of a bigger project (e.g. master
    thesis, PhD dissertation, book project, etc.) or can be stand-alone
    research initiatives that the candidate wishes to pursue.

*Budget*

Applicants can ask for a budget of €2500 up to a maximum of €7000 to 
support their research costs for the purpose of the proposed study.

Researchers affiliated to a research institution who also have teaching 
responsibilities can use (part of) the allocated budget to buy 
themselves the research time needed for the proposed study. In this 
case, they should specify the research time that will be charged on the 
budget.

Senior researchers may use (parts of) the budget to hire interns or 
student assistants to assist with tasks on the project (e.g. corpus 
annotation). When third-party personnel ishired on the project, the 
senior researcher remains in charge of the project and is responsible 
for the final output.

*Eligibility*

We encourage master and PhD students as well as researchers affiliated 
to a university to apply for a Media Studies Grant with the FIAT/IFTA 
Media Studies Commission.

Master and PhD students applying for a Study Grant need to send in 
together with their application a letter from their thesis supervisor 
showing support for the proposed study.

Awarded studies must be affiliated to a FIAT/IFTA member archive, either 
by exploring their collection or datasets for research purposes and/or 
carrying out research that is of direct relevance to a member archive 
institution.

Applicants should provide a support letter from FIAT/IFTA member‘s 
representative providing the collections which will be used in the study.

All applications will be assessed internally by the members of the Media 
Studies Commission of FIAT/IFTA.

*How to apply*

Applicants must send in an application for a Media Studies Grant. The 
applications should not exceed a maximum of 1000 words and need to 
include a:

*Project description.*This should outline the rationale of the project, 
the main research question(s), a description of the topic being 
researched, indication of the archival

material or dataset to be studied and an explanation of the relevance of 
the proposed study for the research as well as archive communities. In 
case the project is part of a larger project, the candidate needs to 
specify how the proposed study contributes to the overall project.

*Output.*Candidates should specify the output resulting from the 
proposed study, including publications, presentations, software 
development, corpora annotation, and any other forms of knowledge 
utilization (e.g. virtual exhibitions, video essays, interactive 
storytelling applications etc.). At the end of their study, successful 
candidates are required to present their findings at a FIAT/IFTA public 
event to be agreed between the Media Studies Commission and the 
successful candidate and send in a written report outlining the research 
they’ve conducted and the main findings of their research. This report 
will be made available on the FIAT/IFTA website.

*Workplan.*Applicants should detail as much as possible all the research 
activities they plan to carry out as part of the proposed study and the 
time allocated for each of these activities. Please be aware that the 
Media Studies Grant only supports small-scale projects of 3-5 months.

*Budget.*Research and secondment costs can be covered by the Media 
Studies Grant. The budget can also be used for funding short-term 
internships, archive annotation campaigns, or paying for transport / 
accommodation fees required for the interactions with the FIAT/IFTA 
archive member. For experimental projects, minimal technical costs may 
be eligible. In any technical costs are involved, we encourage the 
applicant to make contact with the Media Studies Commission before 
submitting their application, to ensure that the costs can be covered by 
the grant. Applicants should detail how the budget will be used. In case 
the proposed study is part of a bigger project, the applicant should 
specify any additional funding he/she may have received. Researchers 
asking for a secondment grant, should specify how their allocation of 
teaching and research time is divided and how much research time they 
wish to allocate to the proposed study and charge on the budget. Senior 
researchers hiring interns or student assistants to assist with the 
project, need to provide a statement with the number of hours and the 
budget allocated to the hired personnel.

*Communication and **dissemination activities.*Applicants should present 
a communication and dissemination plan of how they intend to publicize 
and make available the findings of their study for the research and 
archive communities. Publications in scientific journals and 
contributions to academic conferences are encouraged.

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