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).
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.
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".
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)'.
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 is an artists’ moving image programme that gives focus to the environmental crisis from Global South and postcolonial perspectives.
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.
Lecturer in Film Studies Dr Philippa Lovatt and Dr Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) have been awarded £8000 from the British Council.
Former visiting Film Studies Honours student Peter Horan has published an article in the journal Film Matters.
Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osbourne (Modern Languages) have been successful in their application for a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant.