The Role of Class and Gender politics on Working-Class Women's position in the UK Factual Television Industry

阶级和性别政治对英国实况电视行业工人阶级女性地位的影响

• 批准号: 2599851
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2599851
• 关键词: Role; Class; Gender; politics; Working

The aim of this research, and the original contribution to knowledge offered by this projectis to understand the impact of class and gender on the roles that working-class womenplay in the UK factual television industry.My research questions are:What role do gender and class politics play in efforts by working-class women to enter theUK television industry, and their efforts to build careers there? How are working-classwomen's careers shaped by their gender and socioeconomic background?I will be taking a cultural studies approach to my research, firstly looking at creative labour.Typically studies focus on feminism and the ability of women to work in precarious jobmarkets and within the arts, this will serve as a foundation for my later research andinterviewing of case studies. I will also incorporate analysis of how the media is seen torepresent the working class from studies such as Chavs in which Jones (2016) analyseshow the media perpetuates perceptions of the working class. I will incorporate this analysisinto my research on the production process to assist in understanding how suchperceptions may manifest behind camera within factual television.Cultural studies 'at its best [offers] potentially valuable tools for the analysis of culture inrelation to social power' (Hesmondhalgh, 2018. p67). Analysing this social power is apriority in my study, where I will consider whose voices are heard and how they areperceived, specifically in the context of those working in the television industry.I will collate existing data from companies such as Ofcom, Talent manager and Diamond,additionally Freedom of Information requests (FOIs) may be considered beneficial in orderto assess existing data on the sex, race and socio-economic backgrounds of theworkforce. Recent reports from Ofcom suggest that the number of women in television isdeclining (Ofcom, 2019) and in recent years Diamond have 6 found that women aredistinctly absent from senior creative roles7. These statistics will give me an understandingof the makeup of the industry as it currently stands and can then be compared with datagathered in participant interviews to understand the landscape working-class women areworking within.To gather this information I will carry out fieldwork interviewing working-class women in thetelevision industry. I will interview 40 working-class women who work or have worked inthe last 5 years in UK Factual programming. I will speak only with women directly involvedwith programme making - Producers, Researchers, Production Management roles forexample - rather than other positions - such as HR or Accounts - in which I feelemployment and experiences will not be so uniquely impacted by the processes of thetelevision industry. I will speak to women at various stages of their careers in order tounderstand how experiences may differ from entry level to executive level as well as how awoman's stage in life, such as her age or motherhood status may create different factorsthat impact her career. I plan to speak with each of the women about their experiencesgaining work and promotions, access to training and peer to peer development and whythey have chosen the job they have. Finally I plan to speak to the women about how theybelieve they are perceived and the roles they play within a production, compared to howthey perceive the roles of the men around them. I will record and transcribe each of theseinterviews before analysing the data. I will likely use an analysis tool such as Nvivo orother qualitative data management programme. This will help me organise large amountsof information and find themes or patterns in participants experiences.

本研究的目的，以及本项目对知识的原始贡献，是为了了解阶级和性别对英国实况电视行业中工人阶级女性角色的影响。我的研究问题是：性别和阶级政治在工人阶级女性进入英国电视行业的努力中发挥了什么作用，以及她们在那里发展事业的努力？工人阶级女性的性别和社会经济背景如何塑造了她们的职业生涯？我将采用文化研究的方法进行研究，首先关注创造性劳动。通常研究的重点是女权主义和女性在不稳定的就业市场和艺术领域工作的能力，这将成为我后来研究和采访案例研究的基础。我还将结合对媒体如何被视为代表工人阶级的分析，这些分析来自琼斯（2016）等研究，其中分析了媒体如何使工人阶级的观念永久化。我将把这种分析结合到我对制作过程的研究中，以帮助理解这种感知是如何在事实电视的镜头后表现出来的。文化研究“在最好的情况下为分析与社会权力无关的文化提供了潜在的有价值的工具”（Hesmondhalgh, 2018）。p67)。分析这种社会力量是我研究的重点，我将考虑谁的声音会被听到，以及他们是如何被感知的，特别是在电视行业工作的人的背景下。我将整理来自Ofcom、Talent manager和Diamond等公司的现有数据，此外，为了评估有关劳动力性别、种族和社会经济背景的现有数据，信息自由请求（FOIs）可能被认为是有益的。Ofcom最近的报告显示，电视行业的女性人数正在下降（Ofcom， 2019年），近年来，戴蒙德发现，女性明显缺席高级创意职位。这些统计数据将让我了解这个行业目前的构成，然后可以与参与者采访中收集的数据进行比较，以了解工人阶级女性所处的环境。为了收集这些信息，我将进行实地调查，采访电视行业的工人阶级妇女。我将采访40位工人阶级女性，她们在过去5年里在英国的事实节目中工作或曾经工作过。我将只讨论直接参与节目制作的女性——例如制片人、研究员、制作管理角色——而不是其他职位——如人力资源或会计——我认为在这些职位上，就业和经历不会受到电视行业进程的如此独特的影响。我将与处于职业生涯不同阶段的女性交谈，以了解从入门级到高管级的经历有何不同，以及女性在生活中的阶段（如年龄或母亲身份）如何产生影响其职业生涯的不同因素。我计划和每一位女性谈谈她们的经历——获得工作和晋升、接受培训的机会和同伴之间的发展，以及她们为什么选择了现在的工作。最后，我打算和这些女性谈谈她们是如何看待自己的，以及她们在一部作品中扮演的角色，以及她们如何看待周围男性的角色。在分析数据之前，我会记录和抄写每一次采访。我可能会使用分析工具，如Nvivo或其他定性数据管理程序。这将帮助我组织大量的信息，并在参与者的经历中找到主题或模式。