Funding

Staff in the Department are successful in securing funding from a variety of sources, including The British Academy, UKRI, The Carnegie Trust and the British Council.

Our major funded projects over the past few years include:

Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives – 2023-2025

(PI: Professor Glyn Davis)

Funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (JPICH), PERCOL involves collaborators in the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Netherlands, as well as associate Partner organisations across Europe, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. The project aims to map the growth and spread of queer and trans archives across the last fifty years, and to identify ways in which lessons learned by these organisations can assist in making them and their collections resilient against future challenges.

Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe – 2025-2027

(PIs: Professor Tom Rice and Professor Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Funded by the AHRC and DFG, this collaborative project seeks to relocate filmstrips both across European archives and within media history, and includes full time Postdoctoral researchers at both St Andrews and Frankfurt. The project's research will be developed through close collaborations with archives and partner institutions, including the National Library of Scotland, Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading), and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. The project will support an extensive range of events, creative outputs and publications, including an international conference, an edited book collection, and, with the archives, an international workshop. This will also inform the project's final output, a virtual exhibition, featuring a selection of digitised items.

A filmstrip being examined through a magnifying glass. The first frame reads

German Screen Studies Network – 2025-2028

(PIs: Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osborne, Department of German, School of Modern Languages)

Since the GSSN’s operational relocation to St Andrews in 2021, Drs Flaig and Osborne have been successful in securing external funding to support the network, including a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Promoting German Studies grant from 2022-2024 (€59,798). In 2024, they won a second DAAD Grant which will fund €118,754 of activities for a three-year period. These activities include a post-doctoral network coordinator and research assistant, a conference on legacies of Weimar cinema to be held at Oxford University, public events around East German music and culture in Limerick, a Collaboratory involving researchers between the UK and Ghana, a workshop for German language instructors and the establishment of a biannual research journal devoted to German Screen Studies (to be published by Berghahn).

Ways of Undoing: Craft, Collaboration and Videographic Practice – 2026-2028

(PI: Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson)

Funded by the AHRC Catalyst award, 'Ways of Undoing' is collaboration between Drs Lucy Fife Donaldson and Colleen Laird (Co-investigator, University of British Columbia), and the project's postdoctoral researcher, Dr Dayna McLeod. The project partners include Dundee Contemporary Arts, The Video Essay Podcast, Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo) and Locarno Film Festival. With week-long residential videographic workshops in St Andrews (2026), Vancouver (2027) and Tokyo (2028) and outputs including publications, screening series and exhibitions, the project seeks to recognise the value of collaboration and practice-as-process in order to develop new forms and practices of research.

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