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.
Conference Attendance Support
The BAFTSS Executive Committee announce a new BAFTSS Funding Scheme
Conference Travel Bursaries for Early Career Researcher/Mid-Career/ Visiting/Affiliated and Independent Researchers
Amount available: 6 x £150 Conference Bursaries per annum.
Call for Applications: now open.
Deadline: 31st October 2022 (for events between that date and 31 May 2023).
3 Conference Bursaries of £150 each will be made in this first round of awards.
Call for Applications: now open.
Deadline: 31st October 2022 (for events between that date and 31 May 2023).
3 Conference Bursaries of £150 each will be made in this first round of awards.
Rationale:
At the BAFTSS 2020 AGM, the association’s membership voted in favour of an amendment to the BAFTSS constitution. The amendment instigated a new role on the Executive Committee and marked our commitment to increasing awareness and visibility of the issues faced by Early Career / Mid-Career/ Visiting/ Affiliated and Independent Researchers in precarious employment and those who are unpaid or in visiting roles.
The BAFTSS Executive Committee is now introducing a new funding scheme, which is to form part of BAFTSS’ commitment to supporting the researchers in film, television, and screen studies who are otherwise under-supported. The aim of the funding scheme is to facilitate direct representation of Researchers and Hourly Paid Lectures who are post-PhD award, yet remain without access to research funding, to be able to present their work at conferences.
The deadlines for applications for the first two years are:
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
At the BAFTSS 2020 AGM, the association’s membership voted in favour of an amendment to the BAFTSS constitution. The amendment instigated a new role on the Executive Committee and marked our commitment to increasing awareness and visibility of the issues faced by Early Career / Mid-Career/ Visiting/ Affiliated and Independent Researchers in precarious employment and those who are unpaid or in visiting roles.
The BAFTSS Executive Committee is now introducing a new funding scheme, which is to form part of BAFTSS’ commitment to supporting the researchers in film, television, and screen studies who are otherwise under-supported. The aim of the funding scheme is to facilitate direct representation of Researchers and Hourly Paid Lectures who are post-PhD award, yet remain without access to research funding, to be able to present their work at conferences.
The deadlines for applications for the first two years are:
- Monday 31st October 2022 (for conferences prior 31st May 2023) 3 awards
- Monday 27th February 2023 (for conferences prior to 31st December 2023) 3 awards
- Monday 30th October 2023 (for conferences prior to 31st May 2024) 3 awards
Further details of the scheme and how to apply are available here.
BAFTSS Annual Conference Attendance
- [Suspended in 2022] BAFTSS offers a limited number of bursaries of up to £100 to Postgraduates, Early Career Researchers and Independent Scholars wishing to attend the annual BAFTSS Conference.
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.
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:
- 2022, June. Suspirias Symposium: Covering Trauma, Memory and the Body (Queen Mary, University of London) / Full programme.
- 2020, June. Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound.
- 2019, May. 40 Years of Alien.
- 2019, April. Oceans and the Visual Arts.