Understanding who produces, what is made, and how class is represented on television. AHRC-funded project at @LeedsUnimedia 2023-26
Leeds, Manchester, Salford
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🆕 Listen to the special episode recorded at our symposium for our @ahrcpress project What's On
last September!!
🎙️Featuring: Beth Johnson (PI, What’s On?), @DrDaveOBrien, @lrjdmnr, Helen Wood, @PhilipRalph9 and Nicola Crowther (BBC) rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean…
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Here is my recent keynote on class in the UK TV industry given @LeedsUniMedia for @whatsonTVclass on Friday 19th - give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Many thanks to @lrjdmnr for inviting me to hang my metaphorical arse out in public...
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I’m absolutely thrilled to have been asked by @lrjdmnr to give the opening keynote at this symposium @LeedsUniMedia in September, talking about class - on screen and off - in the current TV industry. Looking forward to some rich conversations and hopefully a better way forwards.
CALL FOR PAPERS: "What's Class Got to Do With It? Rethinking TV from the Inside Out"
- One-day symposium @LeedsUniMedia, 19 Sept 2025
- Keynote: @PhilipRalph9
- Abstracts (250 words) due 4 July at [email protected] @whatsonTVclass
- Registration is free (details TBA)
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we have a Bluesky project account now as well! Follow us @whatsontvclass.bsky.social for project updates and class&TV news!📺
Very excited to have a
CALL FOR PAPERS out: "What's Class Got to Do With It? Rethinking TV from the Inside Out" - One-day symposium @LeedsUniMedia
19 Sept 2025
- Keynote:
@PhilipRalph9
- Abstracts (250 words) due 4 July at [email protected]
- Registration is free
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If you work in the creative industries only you can help plug the data gap on the experiences of workers in the sector.
Bectu's Big Survey survey has now been extended to close on the 21 March, fill it out: surveymonkey.com/r/DNP6GVH
Work in a non-performing role in the creative industries? Share your experiences about work in the Big Bectu Survey. The more responses we get, the more evidence we will have to challenge poor employment practices! 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/DNP6GVH
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New paper! "The Parenthood Penalty in Creative Occupations: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Made Existing Inequalities Worse" by @TalFeder @RFlorisson @markrt Siobhan McAndrew and me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
we have a Bluesky project account now as well! Follow us @whatsontvclass.bsky.social for project updates and class&TV news!📺
UK’s TV workers exposed to ‘illegal or barely legal’ conditions and traumatic content | Television industry | The Guardian theguardian.com/media/2025/j…
our PI @BethLJohnson spoke at @QUBelfast on Friday on large, complex grants and the experience of our @ahrcpress project 'What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry' #Research 👏
New imporant research on class inequalities in the Film Industry, drawing on BFI data. Looking forward to reading this! 🙌
New paper in @MCSjournal "Where are the working class in the British film industry? Data from the British Film Institute" by Peter Campbell @markrt Danny Leigh & me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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The BBC Comedy Collective Bursary is back!
This supercharged bursary scheme offers 10 places to emerging writers, producers, directors and editors from across the UK who’d like to develop their careers in scripted comedy.
Submissions are open from 13-31 January. Find full details on the BBC Commissioning website bbc.co.uk/commissioning/come…
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Miss out on any of our Seminar Series events?
You can now watch them on our YouTube channel!
Catch up on all of this year's Seminar Series events below:
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When children start school, they don't start on a level playing field.
Children from the lowest income households are already 11 months behind their more affluent peers by the time they start primary school.
Strong action is needed to close this wide developmental gap.
Our PI @BethLJohnson’s trip in Australia continues: this week she is in Melbourne and we are wishing her all best of luck for her talk at @MonashUni tomorrow! 👏👏🇦🇺 linkedin.com/posts/beth-john…
Very excited that our PI @BethLJohnson is in Brisbane sharing What’s On @ahrcpress intersectional research on class&TV with colleagues at @QUT Queensland University of Technology) @LeedsUniMedia #EDI 🙌 🇦🇺