Here is my recent keynote for @whatsontvclass.bsky.social given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social on Friday 19th - give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Many thanks to @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for inviting me to hang my metaphorical arse out in public... www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A free creative writing opportunity for 18–25 year olds in Yorkshire ✍ Applications are now open for Life in a Northern Town, a playwriting course led by Northern Broadsides. 1/3

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

I'll be at Turton Local History Society, near Bolton, with 'Manchester and Bolton Portraits: fascinating figures from the region's past', on Thursday September 25th, 7.30pm, Harwood Methodist Church. Visitors £2. www.turtonhistory.com/2024/12/manc...

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!

19th September @leedsunimedia.bsky.social! WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT? RETHINKING TV FROM THE INSIDE OUT One Day Symposium All welcome, registration & details on the excellent poster designed by @lrjdmnr.bsky.social

Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.

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

Many congratulations to all the New Generation Thinkers! Great to see Sarah Smyth and @lrjdmnr.bsky.social recognised for their research and knowledge of #Womensfilmhisory and their leadership in the @wfthn.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

Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉

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

The full programme is now available for the Critical Studies in Television Conference. You can access this by following this link: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/tvresearchgr... Please also remember to register for the conference - even if you are attending online. Registration closes on the 1 July.

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.

This is *so* wrong. Children need to be ready to *learn* the skills needed in the workplace, not to already know them, because (a) there are so many different workplaces, (b) skills are changing all the time, and (c) they’re not going to stay in the same workplace all their lives.

No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.

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!

Anyone interested in class, media and the arts could give these people a follow. Great research and links to articles and stats on working class representation.

It was a pleasure to keynote the @leedsunimedia.bsky.social PGR symposium yesterday and talk about my research on working-class women in British TV comedy. Thank you for having me 💘

Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.

Please sign and share widely - Liverpool Hope is one of *the* centres for cultural Disability Studies research. This threat is a threat to the field itself and to its important commitment to challenging societal prejudices and advocating for social justice through cultural analysis.

📣 TOMORROW from 5-6pm BST: a FREE online celebration of women's TV authorship! I'll be discussing my book on UK comedians with Sarah Arnold, alongside Sarah Smyth & @dearstefania.bsky.social on their special dossier exploring authorship/adaptations 📣 Register: shorturl.at/eO3KY

📣 TOMORROW from 5-6pm BST: a FREE online celebration of women's TV authorship! I'll be discussing my book on UK comedians with Sarah Arnold, alongside Sarah Smyth & @dearstefania.bsky.social on their special dossier exploring authorship/adaptations 📣 Register: shorturl.at/eO3KY

‘An unbroken arc of music’: Bradford prepares for 36-hour odyssey of sound. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection" www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

The programme for Neither Factory Nor Madchester @manmetuni.bsky.social is live. Including a performance by DVRK & a collaboration with @officialuom.bsky.social at Jodrell Bank (transport provided)- @davidolusoga.bsky.social in conv with @JazzieB www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith...

Devastating

Co-written with @poppywilde.bsky.social, our article is out now in @icsjournal.bsky.social. We analyse humorous bad taste Twitter reactions to the death of Prince Philip as a critique of the monarchy, and reflect on the ethics of researching controversial content on social media tinyurl.com/y62326fr

Reminder that the fully-virtual Fan Studies North America conference is still open for submissions on the theme of 'REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital'. This year we're open to academics of all stages including undergrads - please share with your students! fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/

There's several petitions going around following the Cardiff Uni announcement about job losses. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-mlang... petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Now in production 📖 Due for publication in AW2025…

Thanks so much to all our delegates at #BAFTSS2025! We're honoured to have been able to host so many fantastic papers, films and other events. We wish everybody who's travelling home today a safe journey.

Had such an amazing few days at @baftss.bsky.social conference! After a full day of watching fantastic talks yesterday, I had the chance to be part of the Comedic Aesthetics panel today and present on Nollywood rom coms and the single-girl apartment ✨

Absolutely barnstorming panel at #BAFTSS2025 on 'Feel-Bad TV', featuring @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social, @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, and @lrjdmnr.bsky.social!

Next up is @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social discussing neoliberal discomfort in women-centric TV #baftss2025

The next panel this morning is Feel Bad TV, kicked off by @lrjdmnr.bsky.social talking about ‘huns’

We're excited to be at the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies Conference 2025! 📽️📺 Visit the EUP stand to meet Kelly O'Brien, our Senior Assistant Editor for Film Studies, check out our books and enjoy exclusive conference discounts! 💸 #BAFTSS2025 @baftss.bsky.social

New special issue of @popcommjournal.bsky.social on "Queer Women's Fandoms" coedited by Jamie J. Zhao and Eve Ng ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

A wonderfully dynamic PGR workshop to begin #BAFTSS2025 co-chaired by @mattbruce007.bsky.social & Ocean Xu. @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @rorygleeson.bsky.social, @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social & James Dunlop MBE spoke on the interrelationship between academia & industry! @baftss2025.bsky.social

Fascinating PGR workshop at #BAFTSS2025 on industry, academia and the challenges and possibilities of working across both. Thanks @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social @rorygleeson.bsky.social and James Dunlop.

Postdoctoral Researcher Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA761/p...

Huge investigation on class and the creative industries in @theguardian.com with some superb work from @lanre-bakare.bsky.social & team www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

" Middle-class actors are often chosen for working-class parts, “but it doesn’t work both ways, does it? That’s really frustrating and it’s just so unfair.”" www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

The 2025 @baftss.bsky.social New Connections Schedule is now available! Showcasing research undertaken by ECRs in Film, Media and Screen Studies, providing them with bursaries to present their work to new audiences. Thanks to our sponsor Manchester University Press www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

Our #CFP for the TV & New Media special issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”, co-edited with @ggergely.bsky.social and @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, is out. Abstracts due 25 April, further details here: cstonline.net/call-for-pap...