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.
Department news
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.
Funding success for Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson, senior lecturer in Film Studies, has won a British Academy Talent Development Award. The award will support her place on the prestigious Scholarship in Sound and Image workshop.
Film Studies British Council Grant Success: "Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian and British Artists' Cinema: Film Screenings and Discussion".
Lecturer in Film Studies Dr Philippa Lovatt and Dr Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) have been awarded £8000 from the British Council.
Film student publication success
Former visiting Film Studies Honours student Peter Horan has published an article in the journal Film Matters.
Funding Success in collaborative project between Film Studies and Modern Languages
Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osbourne (Modern Languages) have been successful in their application for a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant.
Dr Tom Rice invited to take up guest professorship
Dr Tom Rice invited to take up a Guest Professorship at the Goethe Universität-Frankfurt.