Tammie Ash

Blueprint for the Screen Industries: Where are creative workers living, working and playing in the UK today?

Supervisors: Professor Beth Johnson School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds and Dr Tim Monteath, University of Warwick.

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Project Summary

Media City Salford, Digbeth Loc. Birmingham, Kings Cross, London and more recently the United Nations Accelerator City (Liverpool) are seen as successful examples of investment and development in creative and screen industries inside and adjacent to major cities. Such initiatives are enacted with the promise to transform urban and former industrialised areas into places for media, technology and culture. What kinds of conditions, regional and national policy contexts and stakeholder partnerships are required to allow them to succeed?

The research will explore how regional screen clusters function as working environments for creative labour, with a particular focus on the relationship between infrastructure and access – potential access (enabled by infrastructure and proximity) and actual access (shaped by hiring practices and industry networks). This will help us understand whether regional clusters are genuinely widening participation or if they risk reproducing existing patterns of exclusion in new geographical contexts.

Bio

Tammie is a freelance producer and writer from Bradford, having worked in unscripted television and large-scale national events for the last five years.

Before that, she studied and worked as a civil and structural engineer across bridge and rail projects.