PHD COLLABORATIONS
Together with four other nationally significant heritage institutions and fellow IROs, the BFI is a member of REACH Consortium (Revisiting and Enhancing Approaches to Collections and Heritage), funded through AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships programme. REACH enables mutually beneficial collaborations between partner heritage institutions and British HEIs, covering three of the AHRC Primary Research Areas: Histories, Cultures and Heritage; Creative and Performing Arts; Languages and Literature.
Our curators and industry specialists are currently co-supervising seven CDAs in different stages of progress, designed within REACH or other PhD consortia, including LAHP and TECHNE. Some examples include:
Writing a lens: how might the formal structures of the film archive be subverted through fictioning within artist moving image? (TECHNE); with Kingston University
Creating, Exporting and Exhibiting British Film Stardom, 1920 –1970 (REACH); with QMUL
Transmissions of Trauma? An exploration of the long-term psychological impact of absent narratives and racialised mis/representations of African & Caribbean communities in UK mainstream broadcast media, 1960 – 2000 (LAHP); with The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The First Step or Short Vision? The Influence of the British Film Institute on British Women’s Filmmaking (TECHNE); with Brunel University London
Uncovering the Influence of Migrant Filmmakers on the Emergence and Development of British Film, 1940-1970 (REACH); with University of Southampton
From Independent Film to Integrated Praxis: Regional and Historical Contexts to the Birmingham Film and Video Workshop (1979-1989) (M4Cities); Birmingham City University.