The Department of Film and Television Studies is delighted to announce two MA Scholarships to be awarded for the academic year 2015-16. The scholarships will be awarded to outstanding students proposing topics for further research that will enhance the research profile of the Department.

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

- The quality of the proposal and ideas for future research,
- The quality of the applicant’s writing sample (to be submitted with their application),
- Past academic performance (including any publications/prizes),
- Professional and extracurricular activities,
- Future career plan and the relevance of the MA to this plan.

Applicants must apply to join the MA via the University of Warwick’s electronic application system (warwick.ac.uk/pgapply) and make a separate application for the Department’s MA Scholarships here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/applying/postgraduate/taught/howtoapply/mascholarship

For more general information on the programme, go here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/current/postgrads/taughtma/

Both of these applications must have been made by the 1^st of July 2015. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by the 15^th of July.

Any questions can be directed to Dr Karl Schoonover at k.schoonover@warwick.ac.uk

Three of the department’s PhD students - Barbara Ottmann, Zoë Shacklock and James Taylor - are on the organisational board for this interdisciplinary symposium that will be held on 27th May.

On 27th May at Millburn House, the PGR community is hosting an inaugural interdisciplinary symposium as part of the Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Festival, to provide a platform for postgraduates across the faculty to share and discuss research. The broad theme for the day is “Representation in the Arts”, and our programme of papers, performance pieces, and roundtable discussions will approach this theme from a diverse range of perspectives. The symposium aims to be the springboard for a more permanent interdisciplinary network of researchers, and we look forward to welcoming the PGR community.

Follow us on twitter for live updates @millburnsymp, and join the discussion with #MHSymposium.

For more information, including the symposium programme and abstracts, click here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cadre/current_students/artspgfestival/millburnsymposium/

Catherine Lester, who is currently researching the children's horror film for her PhD in Film and Television Studies has won the Warwick Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship competition, which provides funding to put on a one-day interdisciplinary conference. Details of the conference - which is titled "Let's Hear It For The Girls": Discussing Girls and Girlhood, 1990-present - are now available online at this web page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/girls/

The conference is due to take place on 12th March 2016 here at Warwick and is co-organised by Catherine and Leah Phillips, a PhD student in the English department.