✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿
@lrjdmnr.bsky.social
senior lecturer in TV and media @ the university of salford ❈ women & UK comedy book: https://shorturl.at/iD3Q5 ❈ tv & class project: https://shorturl.at/uIkTP ❈ l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1178868/laura-minor
📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...
I beg your pardon?! Fuck off. "By the next Westminster government" sounds like the author is absolutely certain that a populist party is going to win the next election. This is why the likes of Führage and Not-so-Goodwin need to be fought in every street and on every corner.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6mo ago'Universities must build bridges with populist parties and take steps to restore their legitimacy among the general public or face being recast as “convenient enemies” by the next Westminster government, according to a new report.' 1/2
🎬 Join us for the online launch of What’s On?, a research-led film exploring class inequalities in the UK TV industry. 📅 Wednesday, 25 March ⏰ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Online)
Great to see our upcoming policy briefing and our @ukri.org AHRC-funded ‘What’s On?’ project mentioned in Cameron's Roach's interview in @rtsmedia.bsky.social magazine! Many thanks Cameron for engaging with the research and your great work on class and place, read here: rts.org.uk/article/our-...
Our Friend in the North West: Cameron Roach
We have been celebrating a lot of big birthdays in our region. Hollyoaks has turned 30, Corrie had its 65th birthday and this month Waterloo Road marks 20 years. These shows have offered many people t...
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Thoughtful programmes examining culture in its widest, proper sense deserve this kind of thoughtful, lived response. #AWholeWayOfLife 🧵 👇
Prof Bob Davis@rokewood.bsky.social · 7mo agoPitched from T I normally bristle when my beloved BBCRadio4 semaphores ‘working class’—anticipating bourgeois voyeurism, sentimentality & catastrophism. The great BBCFreeThinking (mostly) evades these traps, despite the inevitable walk-ons for Ken Loach & Andrea Dunbar www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Pitched from T I normally bristle when my beloved BBCRadio4 semaphores ‘working class’—anticipating bourgeois voyeurism, sentimentality & catastrophism. The great BBCFreeThinking (mostly) evades these traps, despite the inevitable walk-ons for Ken Loach & Andrea Dunbar www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Working Class Creativity
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.
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Very pleased to be doing this upcoming online research seminar for University of Reading's Film, Theatre & TV department: Wednesday 25 February, 14.00 - 15.30, "Muriel Box, 'The Truth About Women', and the truth about women directors" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muriel-box...
Muriel Box and the Truth About Women Directors
Professor Melanie Williams presents her current research on the work of film director Muriel Box and her 1957 film The Truth About Women
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Very excited to see our new paper from the project out in Journal of British Cinema and Television Studies, we hope you enjoy reading it! @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
What Do We Know About Class in Television Studies? | Journal of British Cinema and Television
This article offers a comprehensive overview of class in Television Studies, focusing on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Britain. We examine both off-screen and on-screen dynamics, investigating ...
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🎧 Podcast Alert! Happy New Year from the What’s On? team! 🎉 If you haven’t listened yet, check out our podcast episode exploring how social class shapes UK television: who gets in, what stories are told, and how audiences connect. Listen here 👇 rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean.com/e/whats-clas...
What’s Class Got to Do with It? | Rethinking class in the UK TV industry
Recorded live at the University of Leeds during the What’s Class Got to Do with It? Symposium in October 2025, this special episode explores how social class shapes the television industry - from who ...
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New article from me and Anthony Smith! Not-so-subtly promoting our new book "Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming Revolution" @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com
Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros? To copy, not kill, traditional TV
Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.
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Episode 6 of HIT THE NORTH is unveiled! This week features another great guest, who is the first academic to appear on the show: the excellent Dr Laura Minor @lrjdmnr.bsky.social!
Hit The North podcast@hitthenorthuk.bsky.social · 9mo agoOur guest this week on HIT THE NORTH podcast is academic Laura Minor! We had a great chat about her work analysing the trends in women comedy performers on TV and Northern representation, among much else! Including contrasts with the Midlands where she hails from. open.spotify.com/episode/3U02...
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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🆕 Listen to the special episode recorded as part of our symposium for our @ukri.org funded project last September!! 🎙️ Featuring our PI @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC). 👇
What’s Class Got to Do with It? | Rethinking class in the UK TV industry
Recorded live at the University of Leeds during the What’s Class Got to Do with It? Symposium in October 2025, this special episode explores how social class shapes the television industry - from who ...
rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean.com
there's a few more days of the @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale left! my book and so many wonderful others are 50% off till 11/9❣️ www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics...
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property
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eun song@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 11mo agohere's me in conversation with David Guignion! this was extra special because his "Theory & Philosophy" channel is one of my favorites 🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqbd...
PSA: Public Scholars I'm working on a resources page for our website to help scholars find homes for their op-eds, guest blogs, and otherwise expertise. If you run a site or podcast that regularly posts such things and would like us to share it as a potential place to pitch, please let me know!
Here is my recent keynote for @whatsontvclass.bsky.social given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social on Friday 19th - give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Many thanks to @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for inviting me to hang my metaphorical arse out in public... www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...
COMMON PEOPLE: RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE ON CLASS IN TV AT A TIME OF CRISIS…
Here is the full text of my opening keynote address given at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 'What’s Class Got to Do With It?' symposium on class and the UK TV industry at the School o...
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Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...
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University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report
A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.
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In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A free creative writing opportunity for 18–25 year olds in Yorkshire ✍ Applications are now open for Life in a Northern Town, a playwriting course led by Northern Broadsides. 1/3
LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Northern Broadsides
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I'll be at Turton Local History Society, near Bolton, with 'Manchester and Bolton Portraits: fascinating figures from the region's past', on Thursday September 25th, 7.30pm, Harwood Methodist Church. Visitors £2. www.turtonhistory.com/2024/12/manc...
We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!
19th September @leedsunimedia.bsky.social! WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT? RETHINKING TV FROM THE INSIDE OUT One Day Symposium All welcome, registration & details on the excellent poster designed by @lrjdmnr.bsky.social
Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.
Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · last yr.The thing that makes my research work is I read whole books, and sometimes everything a great thinker has written. It's not possible to think, synthesise, and write well in long form (or, indeed, at all) without reading deeply and well.
Thanks everyone who came to our panel yesterday at the Screen 2025 and for engaging so thoughtfully as we discussed how class continues to shape TV production, aesthetics, and working conditions @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social
Many congratulations to all the New Generation Thinkers! Great to see Sarah Smyth and @lrjdmnr.bsky.social recognised for their research and knowledge of #Womensfilmhisory and their leadership in the @wfthn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible@womensscreenwork.bsky.social · last yr.Looking forward to presenting our @UKRI What’s On project findings at #Screen25 in Glasgow this weekend in our panel “Returning to Class: Power, Aesthetics, and Labour in Contemporary Television @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social