Vera Douie Fellowship
at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University
The Vera Douie fellowship is a visiting fellowship for original research in The Women's Library Collections. The fellow also contributes to The Women's Library public programme as an outcome of their research, for example, in the form of a lecture, display, seminar, or workshop.
The fellowship is £4,500 for a minimum of two months and does not include travel or accommodation costs. The fellow will have use of a carrel at The Women's Library.
Applications are welcomed for research into newly catalogued collections as well as other areas of The Women's Library's collections. The Printed Collections catalogue and the Archive & Museum Catalogues can be searched online.
The private donor of the fellowships has requested that applications from women over 35 should be given priority.
The fellowships are anyone currently not employed full time by a HE Institution. It is not necessary to have a postgraduate degree. The fellowship will be awarded at the end of 2009 to commence in January 2010.
The fellowship is in conjunction with London Metropolitan University's Gender Interest Group.
How to Apply
1. Write a proposal of 500 words giving details of the research you want to undertake and what kind of contribution to the public programme (e.g. public event, display, seminar, workshop) might result and who it is aimed at
2. Enclose your CV
3. Give the names of two referees
Please send your applications to Catherine Norman, Audience Development Assistant, The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT
or email to: c.norman@londonmet.ac.uk.
The closing date is 2 November 2009.
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Vera Douie, Librarian of the Women's Service Library.
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Vera Douie
Vera Douie became the librarian of the London National Society for Women's Service at the Women's Service Library at Marsham St, London between 1926 and her retirement in 1967.
In this role she was the moving force behind the collection that was the forerunner to the present Women's Library. She was active in the women's movement throughout her life and was particularly involved in the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene.
During the Second World War she was a fervent campaigner for equal rights and published 'The Lesser Half' on behalf of the Women's Publicity Planning Association in 1943, examining the 'laws, regulations and practices introduced during the present war, which embody discrimination against women'.
After the war, she also published 'Daughters of Britain: an account of the work of British women during the Second World War' (1950). When she retired in 1967, she was awarded the OBE for her life's work. She died in 1979.
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