[Commlist] New call for applications for visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter

Call for Applications for 2024. Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill 
Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter. Deadline: Noon 18^th March 2024

http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/ <https://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-five years since 
its opening, the museum has received donations from many sources and now 
has around 90,000 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 for 2024 for scholars, 
researchers, and practitioners 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 publications 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/ 
<https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/research/research-at-the-bill-douglas-cinema-museum/stipends-at-the-bill-douglas-cinema-museum/> 
  The monies should be spent by the end of December 2024.

The museum’s collections are very varied 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, 
women’s screen history, histories and issues of representation, 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. Recent acquisitions include: Interview tapes with leading 
filmmakers by journalists Trevor Johnston and Nigel Floyd; a very large 
collection of publicity material for predominantly art house films  from 
the 1960s-90s from the Cambridge Arts Cinema, The Pamela Davies 
Collection of photographs related to the career of one of the British 
film industry’s leading continuity supervisors, the Townly Cooke 
Collection of silent film stills and ephemera, and a large collection of 
scripts from the Rank Library. 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 (please note that a separate one-off UK stipend 
in Pre and early cinema will be offered in the spring).

Charlie Chaplin

Silent Cinema, especially in the UK

Sheet Music

Star ephemera

Cinemagoing

Film and material culture, including fan material such as scrapbooks

Fiction about film

Film Press-books and campaign material

The films of Bill Douglas

Independent cinema in Britain since the 1970s

Women’s roles in film culture, including production and criticism.

However there are many other possibilities as the collection covers many 
areas of moving image culture.

*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, using thecatalogue 
<https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk> to highlight the material you wish to 
consult on your visit.

2) The expected outcomes from the research and its contribution to the 
field of study, including publication plans (or films, artworks etc).

3) An outline of the expected costings of your visit, with the amount 
requested for the award.

The deadline for applications is Noon on 18 March 2024. 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 December 2024


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