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Success for Warwick FTV’s First Practice-Based PhD Project

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:02:59 GMT

Hande Çayır has received the 2026 IAANI Outstanding Audio and/or Visual Project (Honorable Mention) Award for her project, 'Filming Madness: Institutions, Individuals, and Ethical Considerations'

PhD Student Polina Zelmanova Publishes Open Access Article in 'Porn Studies' Journal

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:29:54 GMT

FTV’s Hande Çayır publishes pedagogical article and launches new film on documentary sceening platform Guide.Doc.tv

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:17:07 GMT

FTV’s Hande Çayır publishes reflection piece on inclusive pedagogy in the latest issue of The Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice

Hande Çayır’s reflection piece has been published in the latest issue of The Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice. The article shares strategies found to be effective by a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for creating inclusive seminars, emphasising the importance of understanding diverse student needs, valuing feedback, and fostering a collaborative and supportive learning environment.

Vol. 4 (2024): Issue 4: Re/De-Constructing the Teaching Space Piece by Piece | Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice

FTV’s Hande Çayır’s experimental film Tiny Little Things is now available on the documentary streaming platform GuideDoc.tv

Set in Brighton, the 20-minute film presents the visual diary of a woman from Turkey, offering an intimate glimpse into her journey. It has been showcased at platforms, including the European International Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival, Art Beats Festival, and Shortfilmwire+ Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Network.

Tiny Little Things - Documentary Film | Watch Online

Professor Alastair Phillips' final edited issue of Screen published.

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:31:31 GMT

Alastair Phillips' final edited issue of Screen has just been published. Vol. 65 no. 3 (Autumn 2024) coincidentally features several articles and reviews by Warwick staff and students including Chris O' Rourke, Julie Lobalzo-Wright, Michelle Devereaux and Danielle Rae Childs. It also features a fascinating interview with former Warwick staff member, Professor Richard Dyer, on his curation of the UK's first lesbian and gay film season.

FTV Organisers of Samizdat Film Festival Celebrate its Return

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:26:14 GMT

Samizdat Film Festival (https://samizdatfest.co.uk/) in Scotland, co-founded and ran by Ilia Ryzhenko, misha (irek) yakovlev and PhD students at other universities will run for its third year from 1st until 5th October in Glasgow and, for the first time ever, in Edinburgh on 19th October.

Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in Communist states, Samizdat Film Festival is an audience-focused film festival based in Glasgow. The festival takes place annually at CCA Glasgow, online, on the streaming platform Klassiki, and for the first time this October in Edinburgh. With a diverse programme of meticulously curated retrospectives and new films, as well as special events (online panel discussions, silent films with a score performed live, showcases of short films). Samizdat is Scotland’s first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central, North and North-Easy Asia, and the Caucasus.

Film and Television's Hande Çayır wins the 2024 Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence in the ‘Postgraduates who teach’ category.

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:09:00 GMT

Doctoral Candidate Yue Su organises the conference ‘Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World’

Sat, 18 May 2024 07:40:13 GMT

The conference ‘Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World’, funded by the Humanities Research Centre, took place on 27^th April 2024 at the Wolfson Research Exchange. This event provided a platform for an interdisciplinary dialogue between screen studies and kinship studies, bringing together researchers from both anthropology and film and media studies. Professor Janet Carsten from the University of Edinburgh gave the keynote address, titled ‘Creative Kinship: Extending Familial and Moral Imaginaries’, proposing that cinema can open up an expansive and imaginative terrain to explore kinship issues. In accordance with this topic, the conference was organised into three panels: ‘Creatures and Landscapes’ examined how we can make kin from both non-human and ecological perspectives; ‘Queer Families and Communities’ addressed the new visions of queer families and communities in terms of today’s geopolitics; ‘Kinship and Genre’ obtained a critical viewpoint to reconsider the representations of familial relationships in mainstream films. Professor Alastair Phillips, Professor Catherine Constable, Professor Karl Schoonover, and Dr James Taylor chaired the keynote address and panels. Additionally, Dom Thornton gave a paper on the ‘fast family’ of the Fast and Furious franchise.

AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK and International Applicants 2024

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:28:07 GMT

The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham.

For 2024 entry Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership is offering up to 70 fully funded PhD studentships for eligible students in the arts and humanities through the Open Competition and 13 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA).

Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick is one of the UK’s leading departments in the field of film and television research and teaching. It ranked number 1 in Media and Film Studies by The Guardian University Guide 2024. We are inviting applications from students whose research interests connect with our broadly defined fields of expertise in:

Film and television history
Film and television aesthetics
Film theory and philosophy
European cinemas
World cinemas
Queer cinema and television
Human rights and social justice
Documentary
Stardom
Early cinema
Experimental and art cinemas
Ecocinema

For further information on staff’s individual areas of expertise, please visit: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/

Expressions of interest should reach Film and Television Studies at Warwick no later than 30 November 2023. All applications will be subject to internal approval. For enquiries and further information, please contact Dr Tiago de Luca at t.de-luca@warwick.ac.uk

The deadline for M4C funding applications is 10 January 2024 (noon UK time) by which time applicants must have applied for a place to study at Warwick and have ensured that two academic references are submitted via the Midlands4Cities online reference form.

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of M4C application writing workshops, please visit: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/

AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK and International applicants

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:03:23 GMT

Details of funding for PhD researchers

‘Queer’ Asia: Decolonisation and Russia - PhD researcher Misha Iakovlev has co-organised this event for International Women's Day

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:20:28 GMT

One of our PhD researchers, Misha Iakovlev, has co-organised a pair of screenings in London for International Women's Day (08 March). The event, ‘Queer’ Asia: Decolonisation and Russia, features the films Mavzhuda (introduced by in person by director Nimasu Namsaren) and Exciting Life. Tickets are free and can be booked here.