What’s on? Rethinking class in the television industry.

Registration link live now, please reserve your seat by August 29!

Registration link live now, please reserve your seat by August 29!

We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!

Deadline today! Remember to send your abstracts!

One day left to apply! Looking forward to your abstracts!

Submissions welcome for what will be a fantastic session examining class and TV!

Also remember our Symposium call for papers is still open until 4th! Very excited to seeing abstract coming in, make sure you put yours in!

Thanks everyone who came to our panel yesterday at the Screen 2025 and for engaging so thoughtfully as we discussed how class continues to shape TV production, aesthetics, and working conditions @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting our @UKRI What’s On project findings at #Screen25 in Glasgow this weekend in our panel “Returning to Class: Power, Aesthetics, and Labour in Contemporary Television @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social
@annaviolasborgi.bsky.social

LEO has a role to play in picking winners Earnings and graduate destination data isn't just there for league tables. David Kernohan demonstrates how LEO can help implement that industrial strategy

The dashboards in here, put together by @dkernohan.bsky.social from @wonkhe.bsky.social are a goldmine, and give amazing details on what creative arts grads do 10 years after graduation, and the sorts of subjects being used in creative arts industries wonkhe.com/blogs/leo-ha...

One week left to submit a paper for our Symposium CFP! 📺 send us your abstracts! ✍️

UK Global Screen Fund, LFF, NFTS receive big funding boosts from UK government The package will also include support for British Film Commission, BFI Film Academy, and CoSTAR programme.

Great news!

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Still time to apply for our @ukri.org What’s On Project One-Day Symposium @leedsunimedia.bsky.social in September! Get your abstract in by July 4! 🗓️

Wonderful to see @whatsontvclass.bsky.social own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social is part of this fantastic list!

BBC New Generation Thinkers cohort announced for 2025 Six early-career university researchers will work with Radio 4 programme makers to bring new ideas and the latest academic scholarship to audiences.

🥳🥳🥳 congratulations to our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social
for being selected as a 2025 BBC / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) New Generation Thinker! 👏👏👏👏 www.ukri.org/news/bbc-new...

CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July

We are so excited to have you!!@philralph.bsky.social

I’m absolutely thrilled to be asked by @lrjdmnr.bsky.social
to give the opening keynote at this symposium @leedsunimedia.bsky.social
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.

We are super excited to have a CFP out for our upcoming What's On Symposium at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social on 19th September 2025! See all details below Deadline to apply: 4th July. Looking forward to reading your proposals!

Photo of five people, black and white, young and older, looking happy

Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour.

Please share :)

mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

thank you! ❤️

Amazing! 🙌👏

Black British TV makers ‘fighting over scraps’ amid lack of opportunities Industry figures say conditions are worse now than before the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Really great geographical social mobility resource from @suttontrust.bsky.social

Excited to see our AHRC research project led by our PI @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social featured in The TV Foundation’s important report released today: "Let’s Talk About Class" @edinburghtvfest.bsky.social Read the report here: lnkd.in/eVycEpjp 🙌

How the TV jobs crisis is impacting long-running drama Precious jobs and skills are being lost across the UK as cuts to long-running TV drama hit home. Carole Solazzo looks for jump leads

rts.org.uk/article/how-...

British TV’s Working-Class Problem: Nearly A Quarter Of Top Execs Went To Private School, Report Finds An Edinburgh report into working classes in TV has found a quarter of top execs went to private school.

deadline.com/2025/05/tv-w...

Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre A State of the Nations research report into arts and culture engagement in England and the arts and culture workforce.

New Research! @creativepec.bsky.social state of the nation on "Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England" pec.ac.uk/state_of_the... (will do a summary 🧵 later this week)

The Bee includes this thebeemagazine.com/publishings-... by me! Asking what’s changed since the landmark publication of @kitdewaal.com’s Common People & highlighting some new @creativepec.bsky.social research too