[ecrea] Call for applications for Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Call for Applications for 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 75,000 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 Trust we are 
able to offer stipends 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 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. Successful 
applicants will be required to write a blog post for the museum’s 
website about their research following their visit.  The monies must be 
spent by December 31^st 2017.

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 
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

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 or publications 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 10 February 2017. Applicants will be 
informed of the decision of the assessment panel within one month and 
will be expected to undertake their research during 2017.

Dr. Phil Wickham
(P.J.Wickham /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(P.J.Wickham /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>

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