Specialist resources

As a student here, you will be able to take advantage of a wide range of specialist resources:

• Fully equipped cinema for digital, 35mm and other screenings
• Vasari Digital Media Research Centre: this is an excellent resource for our MPhil/PhD students
• Media research and academic staff to advise and demonstrate
• Media Methods: subject-specific research skills seminars
• Professional associations' advice about the field e.g.
• Art Libraries Society (ARLIS)
• Association of Art Historians (AAH)
• DOMITOR
  An International Association Dedicated to the Study of Early Cinema.
• International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
  An organization of filmmakers, broadcasters, archivists and
  scholars dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, television, and related media.
• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
• Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA)
  Represents all who teach or research in the UK Higher Education in media, communications and cultural studies, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments.
• Museums Association (MA)
• Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
  Pan-European network bringing together scholars, archivists, programmers and practitioners.
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
  US-based learned society which promotes all areas of media studies within universities and two-and four-year colleges; it encourages and rewards excellence in scholarship and writing; it facilitates and improves the teaching of media studies as disciplines and  advances multi-cultural awareness and interaction.
• Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA)
• Visual Resources Association (VRA)

• Day visits to museums and galleries: a number of our courses are accompanied by visits which usually take place on Saturdays. In the case of courses where classes are too big to undertake field trips, notes and guidelines are often provided so that you can make individual visits.

In addition, following the success of the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies, hosted by Birkbeck, the college has opened a new Film and Visual Media Research Centre in Gordon Square.

The new centre features state-of-the art projection in a multimedia auditorium and seminar 'break out' spaces.