Using moving image archives in academic research

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Applications are invited from doctoral students registered at U.K.
universities in film/television/media/cultural studies, history,
American Studies, architecture, anthropology and other relevant
disciplines for an Arts and Humanities Research Council sponsored
collaborative doctoral training programme on using moving image
archives and archival materials in academic research.

Leading academics, together with representatives from the BFI National
Archive, the Imperial War Museum, The British Universities Film and
Video Council, the Media Archive of Central England, the national film
archives of Wales and Scotland, the Broadway Media Centre and others
will deliver training events between November 2007 and December 2008.
Students can be linked to an archive/institution appropriate to their
research. Bursaries are available to defray the costs of travel and
accommodation.

Applications are welcome from anyone pursuing doctoral research
using moving image materials.

For more information see the website at:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/filmstudies/movingimagearchives/

To apply contact Professor Roberta Pearson at the University of Nottingham

([email protected]) and Dr Lee Grieveson at University
College London ([email protected]).

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