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On March 12th Dr. Bayman was 'in conversation' with Palme D'Or winning director Ken Loach at Theatre Technis in London. More information here.

Developed in collaboration with the university's Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, the Centre will be launched in 2015. Established by Rachel Moseley and Helen Wheatley (Film and TV) and Joanne Garde-Hansen (CCPS), the Centre aims to develop and support interdisciplinary work on television history, and to generate national, international and cross-cultural research agendas around television heritage and memory.

The establishment of the Centre will enable the department to build upon its longstanding reputation for excellence in the field of historical television studies, and over the coming years, we plan to develop our existing connections with television production companies and archives in order to deliver innovative, world-class postgraduate education and training.

The new Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research will develop bids for external funding for large scale and individual research projects, postdoctoral fellowships and collaborative doctoral training awards. There will be a regular programme of events which will include Visiting Scholars and other guest speakers, conferences, symposia and knowledge transfer events which will be public and industry-facing in addition to their more traditional address to an academic audience.

The team are keen to develop cross-disciplinary work on questions of television history, heritage and memory between scholars both within Warwick and around the world. So, whether you are an established scholar in Television Studies or an adjacent field, or a graduate student aiming to work in the field of television history, heritage and memory research and wish to hear more about our plans for the Centre, please contact the Director, Dr Rachel Moseley (Rachel.Moseley@warwick.ac.uk) for further details.

Keep watching our news feed for details of the formal launch of the Centre later this year, and for our programme of future events! Exciting times are ahead.....

One of the Department’s former students, James Cotton, visited us on Tuesday 10^th March to deliver a workshop on getting into the UK film industry. James is now a successful independent producer and brought a wealth of experience and insight to current students studying Film and Television Studies. The evening was part of a rolling series of informal alumni events designed to bring the Department’s students­, past and present, together to discuss job and career planning and experience.

In April 2014 Dr. Helen Wheatley gave one of the keynotes at the Doing Women's Film and Television History Conference 2014 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. This was the Second International Conference of the Women's Film and Television History Network. Videos of the keynotes are now available online on the conference webpage.

Dr. Louis Bayman appeared on Sky News to speak about the Academy Awards Cerremony recently. He spoke about this year's contenders, historical tendencies in nominations and voting, biopics and trends in Hollywood production, and he correctly predicted the winner of this year's Best Picture award. To see a clip of his appearance CLICK HERE.