Speaker series for semester one
We are very pleased to announce our speaker series for this semester.
Department news
Documenting Socialism Workshop
A workshop on East German Documentary Cinema took place in the University’s Wardlaw Museum on 30 May-1 June 2022.
Film Studies funding success
Dr Tom Rice has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for his project entitled "Conservative Convergence: The Daily Mail and the Evolution of the Transmedial Newspaper, 1896-1960."
Award for Kirsty Sinclair Dootson's Collaborative Research
Kirsty and her collaborator Zhaoyu Zhu have been awarded the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award.
Film Studies Research Excellence
Over 75% of research carried out by the Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews is world-leading or internationally excellent, according to the results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).
Multiple award nominations for Film Studies
Members of the Film Studies community at St Andrews have received multiple nominations for awards from the British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies this year.
RSE Research Network Grant
Dr Tom Rice, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, has been awarded a 2-year Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Research Network grant for a project entitled "The Lost World of Filmstrips".
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant for Dr Lucy Donaldson
Dr Lucy Donaldson, senior lecturer in Film Studies, has won a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant for her project: 'Colouring in the margins: George Hoyningen-Huene’s work in film (1953-1962)'.
Film student publication success
Current MLitt student Georgina Beeby has published an article in the journal Film Matters: 'Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future'.
(Im)material worlds: Tracing creative practice, histories and environmental contexts in artists’ moving image from Southeast Asia and the UK
(Im)material worlds is an artists’ moving image programme that gives focus to the environmental crisis from Global South and postcolonial perspectives.