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        Date: 2026-03-30 11:11:37+00:00
        From: Daniel Wilson <daniel@DANIELWILSON.INFO>
        Subject: Fully Funded PhD Studentship @ UCL

This is a multidisciplinary practice-based PhD working digitally
with BT’s film archive, which includes thousands of films made from the
time of the GPO film unit to the present, tackling subjects in the
history (and imagined future) of technology and information.

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Moving the Frame: New Computational Practices for the Description and
Organisation of the BT Film Collection

University College London (UCL) and BT Group Archives (BTGA) are pleased to
announce the availability of a fully funded doctoral studentship from 1st
October 2026 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP)
scheme, including stipend and international student fees waiver.

We invite applications from students or professionals working in archival
studies, library and information science, 20th century British history
(and/or of technology), film or media studies, computer or data science, 
computer vision, multimodal AI, digital humanities or cultural analytics 
(or with equivalent professional experience).

The student will be encouraged to develop their own multidisciplinary
approach to this practice-based PhD project, which will involve critically
investigating and developing new methods for exploring this
UNESCO-accredited moving image collection held at BT Group Archives. 
This may include machine-learning and computer vision among other 
approaches to knowledge organisation and digital humanities.

Please see the full job description for more details, benefits, and how to
apply, by 24th April 2026. Interviews will be held in London on 22nd May
2026.

Please contact daniel.c.s.wilson@ucl.ac.uk
or james.elder@bt.com with any
informal inquiries about the project or
the application procedure.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/news/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-
partnership-cdp-studentship-0



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