New Discoveries

Watch short films that reveal hidden stories, fascinating objects and lost narratives. These research discoveries have all been made with the support of the Paul Mellon Centre Grants & Fellowships programme.

New Narratives is a set of funding opportunities designed to increase the diversity of perspectives among scholars within this field

MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship
New Narratives Funding Opportunities
Léa-Catherine Szacka explores Charles Jencks' Cosmic House

Mid-Career Fellowship
A World Wide Book: Charles Jencks and the Language of Post-Modern Architecture, 1977–1991
Rosamund Lily West explores forgotten women sculptors

Curatorial Research Grant
Pioneering Women at the Heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors
Wilfried E. Keil makes a surprising discovery looking closely at 19th century photographs

Rome Fellowship
Robert Turnbull Macpherson and his Photographic Vedute of Rome
Sophie Kelly uncovers the forgotten stories of the Miracle Windows

Curatorial Research Grant
Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
Edward Webb-Ingall resurfaces lost AIDS activist videos in the UK

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Video Activism Before the Internet
Digitising one of the last great collections of unpublished 18th-century letters

Digital Project Grant
Robert & James Adam's Grand Tour Letters and Writings
Shijia Yu finds new evidence of the origin of the paper peepshow

Research Support Grant
Amusing, Interesting and Curious: A Study of English Paper Peepshows
Exploring art history in motion with dance-led research

Collaborative Project Grant
Staging BLAST!
Polly Gould uses her own artistic practice to better understand Edward Wilson's watercolours

Publication Grant
Antarctica, Art and Archive
Caroline Douglas takes a closer look at the Newhaven Madonna

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant
Retouching The Archive: Encountering the Paper Calotype