Get in touch for the registration link if interested! 📩

Co-produced by Candour Productions and the University of Leeds is part of our @ukri.org funded project. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with director Imaan Labad, contributors, and the research team.

🎬 Join us for the online launch of What’s On?, a research-led film exploring class inequalities in the UK TV industry.

📅 Wednesday, 25 March
⏰ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Online)

@bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social @leedsunimedia.bsky.social

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New What’s On team paper out 👇🥳

Dr. Anna Viola Sborgi – Mon 9th Feb @1pm – Women, Resilience, and the Labour of Homemaking in 'Rosie' and 'Herself' | University College Cork Check out some of the news stories from Film and Screen Media, University College Cork here

Looking forward to being back at Film and Screen Media at @University College Cork on Monday to discuss my work on housing precarity&gender in contemporary film. Can't wait to see colleagues and catch up @larascaroli.bsky.social @alphavillej.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/...

Fellow giving a presentation.

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027

The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'

⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

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this episode was kindly recorded and edited by @carlhartley.co.uk at our “What’s Class Got to Do with It?” Symposium in September at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social in Leeds

Featuring @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC)

#TVIndustry#SocialClass#WhatsOnProject

🎧 Podcast Alert!
Happy New Year from the What’s On? team! 🎉
If you haven’t listened yet, check out our podcast episode exploring how social class shapes UK television: who gets in, what stories are told, and how audiences connect.
Listen here 👇 rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean.com/e/whats-clas...

Have a listen!

We are looking for participants for the short film we are making as part of our @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project!

COMMON PEOPLE: RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE ON CLASS IN TV AT A TIME OF CRISIS… Here is the full text of my opening keynote address given at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 'What’s Class Got to Do With It?' symposium on class and the UK TV industry at the School o...

You can catch up with @philralph.bsky.social Keynote here www.linkedin.com/pulse/common... we will be sharing highlights and updates in the weeks to come! Stay tuned!

Thanks to our keynote @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC Audiences) for their thoughtful contributions, the team and colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social for supporting and contributing to a wonderful day
packed of lively discussions on class and TV which will hopefully continue!

Can’t believe it’s been a week already since our @whatsontvclass.bsky.social symposium @leedsunimedia.bsky.social it went so fast but still very much immersed in all the discussions we had and thinking about all I learnt from the wonderful papers of our fellow panelists!

Very excited for our Symposium at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social tomorrow!

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

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

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! 🗓️

We have a brand new CFP out today! Looking forward to receiving proposals for our What's On project symposium: "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"📺 📺👇

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

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)

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...

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-...

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 🙌

So excited to work together on this!

Thrilled to have your book in our new series! 👏👏

With a preliminary thank you to those who kept encouraging me to pull the book proposal together in the past few years and gave precious feedback/asked the good questions that made the project better, now on to the actual writing! :D