Primary navigation
Academic and Industry research
The bfi has had an active research programme for a number of years, often in partnership with the university sector. Current research is listed below.
Channel 4 - The First 25 Years
As part of a project reviewing 25 years of British broadcaster Channel 4, the bfi is organising a major academic conference on 17-18 November 2007 to assess the channel's history.
Archival research
The bfi is a partner in the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies.
The National Archive has worked with the National Fairgrounds Museum at the University of Sheffield on an AHRB-funded project to catalogue and contextualise the Mitchell & Kenyon Archive.
The Chaplin Research Foundation has been established in the National Archive to conduct research.
The bfi 1933 – 2003: Government Industry and Film Culture
Queen Mary, University of London has been awarded a three year AHRB grant (2004-7) to research and complete a history of the bfi.
Social Inclusion research
The bfi is a partner of the Open University and University of Manchester in their ESRC-funded Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion programme. Results from this project will be published in early 2006.
Eurofiction
The Eurfiction consortium (the BFI, Hypercampo/University of Florence, INA, CSA, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Siegen) has provided annual statistics of original TV fiction production in the five major European markets since 1996.
