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I received this call for applications for students working in Photographic history and pass it on.The Wilson Fellowship in Photographic History. Call for Applications.De  Montfort University is pleased to announce the availability of one  Wilson Fellowship for its MA in Photographic History and Practice. The  Fellowship offers £5,000 toward the defrayal of tuition and other costs  related to the MA, and is open to all students UK, EU and International.  To apply for the Wilson Fellowship, please submit a piece of recent  writing on photographic history no longer than 10,000 words, in English,  to the Admissions Committee by August 1. For applications to the MA,  please contact Student Recruitment at the Faculty of Art and Design at artanddesign@dmu.ac.uk or apply online at ukpass.ac.uk. For questions about the MA programme  or the Wilson Fellowship please contact Programme Leader, Dr Kelley  Wilder at kwilder@dmu.ac.uk.The  MA in Photographic History and Practice is the first course of its kind  in the UK. It lays the foundations for understanding the scope of  photographic history and provides the tools to carry out the independent  research in this larger context, working in particular from primary  source material. In addition to our collaboration with the Wilson Centre  for Photography Studies in London, we will work with the collections of  the National Media Museum, Bradford, the Central Library, Birmingham,  the British Library and private collections throughout Britain. Students  handle photographic material, learn analogue photographic processes,  write history from objects in collections, compare historical  photographic movements, and debate the canon of photographic history.  They also learn about digital preservation and access issues through  practical design projects involving Website and database design.  Research Methods are a core component, providing students with essential  handling, !writing, digitizing and presentation skills needed for  MA and Research level work. Further modules will encourage independent  thinking in theory and in history writing, introduce students to  methodologies commonly encountered in photographic history, and set the  students on a course for finding their own MA dissertation topic.  Students receive expert advice on the thesis topic of their choosing,  which is written in the summer months and submitted in September, one  year after the course begins, in the case of full time study, or two  years in the case of part-time. For further details on the course and  application process, please download a course brochure from the web  site.