UEA’s archives opened to global researchers for first time
By: News Archive
For the first time academics from all over the world will have access to some of the UK’s richest archives and collections, including local art assembled in the United Kingdom and spanning some 5,000 years of human creativity as the University of East Anglia (UEA) has launched Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships awards this year.
The fellowships form part of UEA’s effort to promote innovative research by scholars at all career stages working in any discipline.
The University’s unique and varied holdings consist of museum artefacts, art works, rare books and manuscripts, and archive collections with particular strengths in British Contemporary Writing; Modernist Art, Design and Architecture; Science and Scientific Writing; Theatre; Suffragettes; Printed Ephemera and UEA Collections. Archives at UEA also have a relevance to Digital Humanities research projects. More details can be found at the UEA Library archives.
UEA owns and operates the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA), which is accredited and the first Regional Film Archive in England. EAFA is a state of the art digital moving image archive and contains thousands of films and television programmes from 1896 to the present day, including unique collections from Anglia Television, BBC East, and the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers. The collection includes approximately 75,000 catalogue titles and 148,000 items in the vaults. More details can be found here: http://www.eafa.org.uk/about-the-archive.aspx
The University is also home to the remarkable collections at its Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the Robert Sainsbury Library, part of the Sainsbury Research Unit. Collections and archives include the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection; the Lisa Sainsbury Ceramics Collection; the Sainsbury Abstract Collection; the Anderson Collection of Art Nouveau; the University Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Design and Architecture and the Family Collection. More details can be found here: https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-objects.
The fellowship awards provide financial support of £2,000 living expenses and up to £500 travel expenses over a period of four weeks while pursuing a research project directly relating to the University’s collections. Visiting fellows will be given access to the collections in research facilities in the Archives Department at UEA Library; the Archive Centre at County Hall in Norwich and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Applications aimed at developing the visiting fellow’s ability to make strong applications to externally-funded post-doctoral positions which must then be held at the UEA are encouraged. This includes the British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowships; Leverhulme Early-Career Fellowships; Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions; Newton Fellowships, Marie Curie Fellowships, Wellcome Trust Research Fellowships, ESRC Future Research Leaders Scheme, NERC Research Fellowships.
Claire Jowitt, Associate Dean for Research in Arts and Humanities at UEA, said: “I am delighted to support UEA's new Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships, designed to promote research on the University's distinctive collections, to foster innovative and interdisciplinary work, and to encourage collaborations with colleagues at UEA.”
The deadline to apply is 15 January 2020 for fellowships to be held between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021.
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