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...

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 ...

Inquiry finds class should become protected characteristic and calls for rise in number of apprenticeships An inquiry into class representation in creative fields has recommended changes believed to be the first of their kind in Greater Manchester to increase the number of working-class people in the arts. Class Ceiling, a report led by Nazir Afzal, the chancellor of the University of Manchester, and Avis Gilmore, the former deputy general secretary of the National Education Union, was announced on 26 September, with promises of providing a “blueprint for change” that would highlight solutions to the obstacles that have kept working-class representation in the arts low, with the hope that such changes could be put in place throughout the country. Continue reading...

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 ...

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 ...

Graham shows his true colours, Bear has big news for the partners, and Rosie is on a mission. Jimmi loses his cool when trying to help a patient.

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...

Registration to be a mentor in 2026 is now open! Arts Emergency mentors support young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside who are interested in the creative and cultural industries and are taking their first steps out of compulsory education.

A One-Day Symposium as part of the What’s On? Rethinking Class in the TV Industry research project – funded by the AHRC

Earnings and graduate destination data isn't just there for league tables. David Kernohan demonstrates how LEO can help implement that industrial strategy

The package will also include support for British Film Commission, BFI Film Academy, and CoSTAR programme.

Six early-career university researchers will work with Radio 4 programme makers to bring new ideas and the latest academic scholarship to audiences.

Industry figures say conditions are worse now than before the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020

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

An Edinburgh report into working classes in TV has found a quarter of top execs went to private school.

A State of the Nations research report into arts and culture engagement in England and the arts and culture workforce.

When you’re a child, your social class doesn’t determine how good you are at reading and writing. Yet half of our published writers are from middle-class backgrounds, and only 10 per cent are working ...

The research found that accent-based stigmatisation is widespread and disproportionately affects working-class students from the north of England

The broadcaster’s first female boss, who helped fight off two privatisation attempts, will leave in the summer The chief executive of Channel 4, Alex Mahon, is to step down after eight years and will leave the broadcaster in the summer. During her tenure Mahon, who joined in 2017 as the first female CEO in the broadcaster’s four-decade history, helped fight off two attempts to privatise Channel 4. Continue reading...