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.....