🆕 Listen to the special episode recorded as part of our symposium for our @ukri.org funded project last September!! 🎙️ Featuring our PI @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC). 👇

End of an era… today is the final day to watch my final ep of Doctors leaving @bbciplayer.bsky.social at 2:45pm. As these final 16 eps play out, please remember the hundreds of people who have struggled to find work since the axe fell… 😢😢🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗞 𝗧𝗩 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮? 𝗪𝗲’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. We’re making a short film with Candour Productions as part of the @ukri.org -funded project 'What’s On? Rethinking Class in the UK Television Industry' 📍 Filming in Leeds w/c 5 January 2026 (expenses covered) 📅 Deadline: 21 November 2025

Huge hanks to all who came to our 'What’s Class Got to Do With It?' symposium on Friday! from our What's On Team @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social

Still digesting all of the impressions and conversations from Friday! It was an absolute pleasure to present some of my ideas as well as be surrounded by likeminded people from academia to industry. Excited to get back to writing my dissertation!! There's more work to be done 👩🏻‍💻📑

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...

Next stop was Leeds to take part in the What's Class Go To Do With It? symposium hosted by our friends at @whatsontvclass.bsky.social. Thank you team What's on TV for such a stimulating and thought-provoking day!

Really looking forward to giving the opening keynote on class in the UK TV industry at this symposium in Leeds tomorrow. Highlights to come for those who can’t make it. Those who can - do say hello!

Looking forward to welcome speakers and attendees tomorrow for the “What’s Class Got to Do With it? Rethinking TV from the Inside Out” symposium aligned to our AHRC Project! We are delighted to have us @philralph.bsky.social as Keynote and Nicola Crowther (BBC) as Responder for plenary sessions!

Mentoring works. "Thank you so much for this opportunity. It has really helped me believe that I can actually have a career in fine arts." - former mentee Become and Arts Emergency mentor 👉 www.arts-emergency.o... Applications close 29 Sep 25

Team ReCARETV are really looking forward to presenting at ‘What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out’ conference at the University of Leeds on 19th September 2025. See you there @whatsontvclass.bsky.social

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

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! ✍️

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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!

🥳🥳🥳 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

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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!

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/

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 🙌

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

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very important work 👇

Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon to step down after nearly eight years

🧵As promised, here’s a couple if highlights from last weeks @creativepec.bsky.social report on graduate outcomes from arts & cultural subjects. It has huge amounts of interesting detail, but I’ll pick out a couple of key highlights- some positive, some much more challenging pec.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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“Art is the way you articulate and reflect the world around you, it’s how you find your tribe.”

Is culture still bad for you? In 2020, ‘Culture is bad for you’ was published. To mark the updated second edition, co-author @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, reflects on what’s happened to the cultural sector since then for @artsprofessional.co.uk: www.artsprofessional.co.uk/feature/is-c... #booksky

Culture is (still!) bad for you, revised and updated edition out now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/ The new cover looks brilliant too

"“For anyone from a working-class town, the opportunities to get into music are few and far between,” he says. “There’s a huge disadvantage when it comes to access to musical equipment, and even music lessons, at state school level.”" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

Culture is bad for you is doing a book tour! @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social or me in Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online & in person) & Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details/tickets manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

"Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say" 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...