[Commlist] Locked Down and Locked Out: new report published

Today sees the publication of /Locked Down and Locked Out: The impact of 
the Covid-19 pandemic on mothers working in the UK TV industry/: read 
the full report here: http://nottingham.ac.uk/go/ldlo <http:// 
nottingham.ac.uk/go/ldlo>.

Image shows pregnant figure and child against the background of a 
television studio 
<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/isir/locked-down-and-locked-out.aspx>

The report represents the voices of hundreds of television workers and 
is published by the Institute for Screen Industries Research 
<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/isir/index.aspx>and the 
University of Nottingham <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/>in partnership 
with Telly Mums Network <https://twitter.com/tellymums1>, Share My Telly 
Job <https://www.sharemytellyjob.com/>and Bectu <https://bectu.org.uk/>.

/“There was no allowance made in the production schedule for the fact 
that I was teaching and caring for a 6-year-old while trying to run an 
edit from my kitchen table.”//
/

Written by Dr Natalie Wreyford, Dr Jack Newsinger, Professor Helen 
Kennedy and Dr Rowan Aust, the research throws a spotlight on the impact 
of the Covid-19 pandemic on the careers, finances and mental health of 
mothers working in unscripted television and makes a series of 
recommendations for broadcasters, commissioners, regulators and 
policymakers.

/“The TV industry doesn’t care about freelancers, our mental well-being 
or our safety - we are disposable and it’s fundamentally rotten at its 
core.”/


    About the authors

  * Dr Rowan Aust <https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/rowan-aust> is
    Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield and Co-Director of
    Share My Telly Job.
  * Professor Helen Kennedy

<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/departments/culturalmediaandvisualstudies/people/helen.kennedy> is
    Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of
    Nottingham.
  * Dr Jack Newsinger

<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/departments/culturalmediaandvisualstudies/people/jack.newsinger> is
    Assistant Professor in Cultural Industries at the University of
    Nottingham.
  * Dr Natalie Wreyford
    <https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/natalie.2.wreyford.html> is
    Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College
    London.


    For more information contact:

  * Professor Helen Kennedy, Department of Cultural, Media and Visual
    Studies, University of Nottingham
    Email (helen.kennedy /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)
    <mailto:(helen.kennedy /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>
  * Emma Rayner ((emma.rayner /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)
    <mailto:(emma.raynerr /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>), Media Relations tel: 07738
    291242

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