Funding opportunities
We offer a number of different funding schemes to which BAFTSS members can apply. Please note that the continuation of all funding schemes is dependent on the availability of funds, so these schemes may be subject to change.
SIG Funding
BAFTSS has made a limited amount of funding available to support the research and networking activities of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups.
Bids should support events that are in keeping with the BAFTSS Mission Statement and the BAFTSS and BAFTSS SIG membership.
Applications are assessed on the basis of academic merit.
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
Bids should support events that are in keeping with the BAFTSS Mission Statement and the BAFTSS and BAFTSS SIG membership.
Applications are assessed on the basis of academic merit.
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
Event Funding
We offer a scheme open to all members (including postgraduates) to contribute costs towards the organising of events.
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
Bursaries
BAFTSS offers a limited number of bursaries of up to £100 to Postgraduates, Early Career Researchers and Independent Scholars to support conference travel and attendance.
Details about eligibility, how to apply and deadlines will be made available shortly.
Details about eligibility, how to apply and deadlines will be made available shortly.
Reports on BAFTSS-funded events
SIG Events:
PG Events:
Other Events:
- 2020, February. Girlhood & Contemporary French Cinema Studies (French & Francophone Cinema SIG)
- 2019, June. The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion (Essay Film SIG)
- 2019, June. FS74 - A (London) Film Society Reconstruction (Animation SIG)
- 2019, June. Transnational Screens New Directions, New Collaborations (Transnational Film & TV SIG)
- 2018, October. Psychoanalysis, Nationalism and Ideology Conference (Psychoanalysis & Film SIG)
- 2018, April. British Women Amateur Filmmakers and Colour Films Symposium (Amateur Cinema SIG)
- 2018, March. Colour in Context Symposium (Colour & Film SIG)
- 2017, November. Essay Film and Narrative Techniques Screenwriting Non-Fiction Symposium (Essay Film SIG)
- 2017, November. Euro-Bollywood (SIG) Workshop Deconstructing the Complexities (Euro-Bollywood SIG)
- 2017, September. The Persistence of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Symposium (Animation SIG)
- 2017, February. Journeys through Colour Experimentation, Realism and Artifice in Non-fiction Travel Film Symposium (Colour & Film SIG)
PG Events:
- 2019, May. 120 BPM Screening (PG Event)
- 2019. University of St Andrews PG Symposium (PG Event)
- 2017, June. Troubling Time An Exploration of Temporality in the Arts (PG Event)
- 2016, June. Production Studies Film, Television, and their Industrial Contexts Conference (PG Event)
- 2015, January. Island Poetics Symposium & Workshop (PG Event)
- 2013, June. New Approaches to Gender, Film and Television - Histories and Futures in the Digital Age (PG Event)
- 2013, April. Theorising Practice, Practising Theory (PG Event)
Other Events: