While the film, TV and games industries are one of the UK’s greatest success stories, new research calls for change from the sector to provide disadvantaged young people with better… Read More »New research calls for change in film, TV and games sectors to improve access and progression for disadvantaged young people
This report concludes phase 2 of the PEC’s ‘Class in the Creative Industries’ programme. Led by PEC researchers at Work Advance, the University of Edinburgh, and the Work Foundation, and… Read More »Social mobility in the creative economy: Rebuilding and levelling up?
From presence to prominence: How can computer vision widen evidence base of on-screen representation There are two big initiatives in the UK regularly collecting evidence on diversity across different demographics… Read More »Part one: Gaps in the evidence base
From presence to prominence: How can computer vision widen evidence base of on-screen representation We present a conceptual framework of representation measurements, focusing on representation on-screen. Off-screen inclusion (e.g. commissioning of… Read More »Part two: A framework for measuring on-screen representation
Explore the research series A series about improving issues of diversity in the characters that we see on our screens The UK screen industry has a diversity (specifically, representation) problem… Read More »Using computer vision to improve on-screen representation
Authors: Heather Carey, Rebecca Florisson, Professor Dave O’Brien, Dr Neil Lee It was recently suggested that the pandemic poses ‘the biggest threat to the UK’s cultural infrastructure, institutions and workforce in a generation’… Read More »Getting in and getting on: Class, participation and job quality in the UK’s Creative Industries
Following a nine-month evidence synthesis and scoping exercise undertaken by the PEC team leading on work in skills, talent and diversity, from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University, this evidence review… Read More »Skills, talent and diversity in the creative industries: critical issues and evidence gaps