We have been celebrating a lot of big birthdays in our region. Hollyoaks has turned 30, Corrie had its 65th birthday and this month Waterloo Road marks 20 years. These shows have offered many people t...

Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.

Professor Melanie Williams presents her current research on the work of film director Muriel Box and her 1957 film The Truth About Women

This article offers a comprehensive overview of class in Television Studies, focusing on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Britain. We examine both off-screen and on-screen dynamics, investigating ...

Recorded live at the University of Leeds during the What’s Class Got to Do with It? Symposium in October 2025, this special episode explores how social class shapes the television industry - from who ...

Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...

Recorded live at the University of Leeds during the What’s Class Got to Do with It? Symposium in October 2025, this special episode explores how social class shapes the television industry - from who ...

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...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...

A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

Overview of programme for the Critical Studies in Television Conference 2023. A detailed programme will be covered soon.

Join us online for WFTHN Presents: Women's Television Authorship, where we celebrate some recent scholarship on women's television authorshi

Join us online for WFTHN Presents: Women's Television Authorship, where we celebrate some recent scholarship on women's television authorshi

Event, a highlight of city of culture celebrations, will involve 500 musicians playing everything from Mozart to bhangra

Cities tell stories about themselves. Manchester likes to tell a story about itself that’s often summed up in the alleged words of Tony Wilson, founder of