Projects & Research
BUFVC plays a unique role in conducting and supporting research with, and of moving image & sound with a focus on ICT.
Many resources available on the BUFVC website are the result of projects; providing long-term access to data, as well as enabling future research by students and researchers. 
Partnerships
BUFVC partners with Higher Education Institutions throughout the research lifecycle: devising research questions, brokering relationships with industry, providing project management and making outputs publicly accessible as online resources.
If you are interested in forming a research/project partnership with the BUFVC, please contact Linda Kaye, Research Executive, email, +44 (0)20 7393 1518.
Keep up to date with the BUFVC’s projects and research via our blog posts
Audiovisual Citation Guidelines
View the latest edition of the BUFVC Guidelines for Referencing Moving Image and Sound. The guidelines are designed to encourage best practice in citing any kind of audiovisual item.

AP UPITN Collection (September 1973)
The BUFVC will publish 300 items of content from September 1973 from the UPITN collection. The new items will form part of News on Screen.

Channel 4 and British Film Culture
The research project will see the creation of an online resource of digitised Channel 4 press packs (1982-2002).

Chronicle: BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 60s and 70s

Providing access to digitised copies of selected BBC news and current affairs material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles
EUscreen
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The second EUscreen project – providing even more free online access to content from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives including long-running factual series, documentaries, newsreels and magazine programmes.
News on Screen: OCR, Oral Histories and Ephemera

A project to increase content and types of content available, as well as enhancing current listings in the News on Screen database.
Research Education Space – Box of Broadcasts
Opening up the BBC broadcast archives to provide additional resources to BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National.
Roundabout

More than 600 videos will be made freely available via the BUFVC player from Roundabout – the British government’s monthly cinemagazines for South and Southeast Asia from the 1960s.
Shared Services Project

The BUFVC’s Shared Services Project aims to create the richest source of broadcast data for higher and further education, plus ground-breaking AV citation guidelines
BUFVC Projects Timeline (1999 – )

View a timeline of previous partnerships, projects and research projects undertaken by the BUFVC.
