Departmental News

Theatre Studies Research seminar

Barbara Kaulbach (Goethe Institute, Glasgow) will give a talk on Chinese Opera: Tradition and the Changing Chinese Landscape on Thursday 11 February at 5.15pm, Room 408, Gilmorehill Centre. All welcome.

Practitioners, Processes, Professions

Kira O'Reilly is a UK based artist; her practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. She will give a presentation on Friday 12 February at 3.30pm in the Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre. This presentation is co-hosted by the Departments of History of Art, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. All welcome.

Departmental Office

Due to staff illness, the Dept Office will only be open from 10am - 12.30pm and 2 - 3pm Monday to Friday. We apologise for the restricted opening hours but Jeanette has severely broken her arm and will be off for some time. We hope you will keep all enquiries to these times to help the Office staff in their much reduced capacity.

Opportunities for Postgraduate studies

The Department and the University are pleased to announce a range of different scholarship opportunities available for post-graduate study. General information can be found here and on the Faculty of Arts Graduate School website. For more detailed discussions as to eligibility and research topics please contact the relevant post-graduate subject group convenors, who are, in Theatre Studies: Dr. Dee Heddon, in CCPR: Professor Raymond Boyle and for Film and Television Studies: Dr. Karen Lury. Post-graduate research which incorporate more than one subject area are encouraged.

New book

Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema edited by Ian Craven has just been published by Cambridge Scholars. The book offers a critical response to the still underexplored mode of amateur cinema, as a particular dimension of British film practice concentrating upon a roughly fifty-year period (1930-1980). More details.

Top marks!

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies has been ranked number one for our subjects in The Times Good University Guide 2010 (in this Guide the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies appears in the ranking for 'Drama, Dance and Cinematics'). Universities and departments across the whole of the UK are rated by a range of key performance indicators so this top ranking reflects both the world-leading research being undertaken in the Department and the outstanding learning and teaching student experience. Prospective students will find out more about our Department and our courses by exploring these webpages.

WiFi

Wireless networking is now available to staff and students in most areas of the Departmental building. Levels 1-5 are covered with the exception of the Performance Studio and Cinema areas, this should be rectified in the near future. Your laptop - or other wireless enabled device - should pick up the wireless network "flexaccess" automatically but you need to install the VPN software to access the internet and other protected campus resources. Guest visitors to the University can request a password without installing the VPN software. More details.

Departmental Research Committee

The Departmental Research Committee devises implements and monitors research strategy in the Department. Here for more details, and information on how to apply for funding.

Student comments

Some recently graduated students were asked to give their opinions on their time spent in the Department and of University life.