Past Academic and Industry research
Audience and Industry Research
The Television Audience Tracking Study 1991 - 1996
This longitudinal study collected data from 450 viewers between 1991 and 1996. Resultant publications have included:
- Petrie, D. and Willis, J. (1995). Television and the household. London: bfi publishing. £12.99. ISBN 0 85170 504 9
- Gauntlett, D. and Hill, A. (1999). TV living: Television, culture and everyday life. London: Routledge. £14.99 ISBN 0 41518 486 X
- Paterson, R. 'Tracking the television audience' (2000) in M. Buonanno Audiences. Multiple Voices. Florence: Edizioni Fondazione Hypercampo.
- Turnock, R. (2000). Interpreting Diana: Television and the death of a princess. London: bfi publishing. £12.99. ISBN 0 85170 788 2
The Television Industry Tracking Study 1994 - 1998
The ESRC-funded TV Industry Tracking Study collected data from 450 production workers between 1994 and 1998. The study has resulted in numerous publications including:
Executive Summary - May 1999 (PDF, 22k)
- 'Mothers Returning to TV Production Work: Equal Opportunities in a Flexible Labour Market' by Janet Willis and Shirley Dex, Research Papers in Management Studies, University of Cambridge, The Judge Institute of Management Studies (1999). Available in the bfi National Library
- 'Workers Strategies in Uncertain Labour Markets: Analysis of the Effects of Casualisation in the Television Industry' by Shirley Dex, Janet Willis, Richard Paterson and Elaine Sheppard in Work, Employment and Society, vol.14, no.2, (2000)
- 'Training in the Television Industry' by Shirley Dex and Colin Smith, Research Papers in Management Studies, University of Cambridge, The Judge Institute of Management Studies (1999)
- 'The Employment Experiences of the Self-Employed: the Case of Television Production Workers' by Shirley Dex and Colin Smith, Research Papers in Management Studies, University of Cambridge, The Judge Institute of Management Studies (2000)
- 'The Television Labour Market in Britain' by Richard Paterson in Jeremy Tunstall (ed.) Media Occupations and Professions, Oxford University Press, 2001.
- 'Work Histories in Television' by Richard Paterson in Media, Culture and Society 23 (4), July 2001
- 'BFI Television Industry Tracking Study: The First Year - An Interim Report' (PDF, 112k) by Nick Pettigrew, Janet Willis and Richard Paterson (London: BFI, 1995)
- 'BFI Television Tracking Study: Second Interim Report' (PDF, 197k) by Nick Pettigrew, Janet Willis, Richard Paterson and Shirley Dex, London: BFI (1997)
- 'BFI Television Industry Tracking Study: Third Report' (PDF, 261k) by Elaine Sheppard, Janet Willis, Richard Paterson and Shirley Dex (London: BFI, 1999).
A book, Working in Television, is in preparation for Oxford University Press.
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