Thanks to the genorosity of the estate of Bill Douglas we have been able to offer a number of research stipends to researchers and scholars from all over the world since 2017. The maximum award for UK researchers is £500 and for overseas visitors £1500.
Stipend holders receive funding to come and visit the museum in Exeter and research our collections. This will contribute to their books, articles, films or artworks, which will be informed by our holdings. 14 researchers were awarded stipends to visit in 2017 and a further 9 in 2018, looking at a range of artefacts on areas of study well served by our colections. They are asked to submit a blog on their work here for our website.
In 2023, stipends were awarded to:
Dr Rosie Hickey
Heritage Officer at the Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
Blog Escaping to the Pictures? Cimema-going during World War Two
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Rastko Novaković
Film maker
Blog 'Make them work for the gold.' A few notes on the visual style of Bill Doublas, as illumniated by his working papers.
Dr Claudy op den Kamp
Principal Academic in Film at Bournemouth University
Blog The Shadow Land: Serial Photography and the Legal invention of Motion Pictures Or, how I have leant to embrace serendipity in doing archival research. Claudy investigated holdings on Muybridge and Dickson.
Dr Christina Wilkings
Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham
Blog Looking back to move forward: Researching Men's Mental Health in Cinema
Professor Melanie Williams
Professor of Film Studies at the University of East Anglia
Blog A Tale of Two Muriels: Researching the world of women's script work in postwar Britain at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
The stipends awarded in 2019 were to:
Dr Malcolm Cook
Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Southampton
Blog 'Useful' Animation and Its Intermedial Uses
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Dr Eric Hoyt
University of Wisconsin, Madison USA
British film Trade Magazines and the Digital Archive
Dr Carla Mereu Keating
University of Bristol
Blog Translation and the consumption of foreign-language films in the UK
Dr Andrea Mariani
University of Udine, Italy
Scrapbooks and Film Fans
Colm McAuliffe
Birkbeck College, University of London
Blog The Rise of French Film Theory in Film Studies in the UK
Professot Tamar Jeffers MacDonald
University of Kent
Joan Crawford in the fan magazines
Dr Clive Nwonka
London School of Economics
Babylon and Black British Cinema
Dr Chris O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer in Film and Telelevision, University of Lincoln
Blog Queer Uses of British Fan Magazines
Kari Sund
University of Glasgow
Film Fiction before World War Two
The stipends awarded in 2018 were to:
Seth Giddings
Associate Professor Digital Design and Art, Winchester School of Art
Blog Handheld Cinema, or, the other successful toys that move
Milan Hain
Assistant Professor, Film Studies University of Palacky, Czech Republic
Blog David Selznick: Starmaker
Birgitta Hosea
Animator and Professor, University of Creative Arts, Farnham
Blog Animated Loops: From Print to Instagram
Sarah Kelley
PhD candidate, University of Bristol
Blog Harry Potter and the Representation of British Culture: A Paratextual Analysis
Paul Moody
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Brunel University
Blog Gavrik Losey and Don Boyd's work at EMI Films
Jenna Ng
Head Of Interactive Media, University of York
Blog Virtual Reality and Pre-Cinema
Renu Savant
Filmmaker, India
Blog Re-versing the Journey
Podcast Interview with filmmaker Renu Savant
Martin Stollery
Independent Scholar and Writer
Blog Paul Rotha - 'Filmland's Forgotten Man'
Ellen Wright
Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Television History, De Montfort University
Blog Homes of the Hollywood stars
Awards in 2017 were to:
Dr Jennifer Barnes, Lecturer in Film University of Dundee
Blog on Taylor and Burton as a Shakespearean Couple
Carolin Beinroth
PhD student in Musicology, University of Giessen, Germany.
Blog Music in early cinema exhibition in Britain
Dr Victoria Byard, lecturer in Television, Falmouth University
Peter Cotes and early British Television Drama
Dr Rudmer Canjels
Independent Cinema researcher, The Netherlands
Blog Cigarette Cards and cinema in Britain
Dr Maria Corrigan
Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, USA
Blog Charlie Chaplin as a national and global figure
Dr Tiago de Luca
Lecturer in Film, University of Warwick
Blog Images of the World in Pre-cinema and Early Cinema
Dr Victoria Duckett, Lecturer in Screen (Film and Media) Deakin University, Australia.
Blog Sarah Bernhardt and 19th Century Stage Actresses in Early Cinema
Cara Fraser, PhD student, University of Dundee
Blog Bill Douglas and Bertholt Brecht
Dr Emily Hayes, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford Brookes University
Blog Glimpses of Other Worlds: Victorian geographical and travel magic lantern shows and city guides
Dr Nick Jones, Lecturer in Film, University of York
Blog Steroscopes and new ways of seeing
Andy Kimpton-Nye, Filmmaker
White working-class youth in British 1970s Cinema: The Bill Douglas, Don Boyd and Gavrik Losey Collections
Blog 'Alienation and Ambition White Working-Class Youth in '70s British Cinema
Prof. Julian McDougall, Professor in Media practice, Bournemouth University
'Comrades' and the Tolpuddle Martyrs story represented in the 'third space'.
Blog 'Comrades and Curators'
Rod McLachlan
Artist and PhD Student, University of the West of England
Using 19th century devices to inspire a new projection device
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Dr Henry K Miller
Film Journalist and Supervisor at the University of Cambridge
Early Art Film exhibition in Britain
Blog In search of the Early Film Art Movement
