Upcoming
Our research-active team regularly organise public-facing events and co-produce development opportunities. Keep up to date with what we are up to.
[Event] Channel 4 at 40, Arnolfini
A celebration of Channel 4’s 40th birthday and its connections to Bristol Saturday 03 December, 11.00-20.30, Arnolfini, Bristol, BS1 4QA Channel 4 first broadcast on 2 November 1982. Hailed as…
[CFP] Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places
A Three-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference at King’s College London 19-21 June 2023 Co-organisers: Professor Paul McDonald, Kings College London; Professor Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England BristolDeadline for…
[CDA] PhD opportunity
Collaborative Doctorate: The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture SIRG are delighted to say that UWE Bristol in collaboration with Exeter University and Watershed Cultural Cinema…
Projects
Over the past decade, the Screen Industries Research Group at UWE Bristol has received several major grants to investigate various aspects of the film and television industries in the UK and internationally.
The Documentary Film Council
The Documentary Film Council (DFC) is a new national body for UK documentary film. Funded by the AHRC and co-created by UWE Bristol researchers and stakeholders across the documentary sector…
Regional Screen Production in Europe: Encouraging Diversity, Sustainability and Plurality of Perspectives
This faculty-funded research project led by Amy Genders as Principal Investigator and Andrew Spicer as Co-investigator explores the growing political, economic and cultural interest – and an increasing body of…
Go West! Bristol’s Film and TV Industries
Funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, ‘Bristol Film & TV Industries’ analysed the size, shape and characteristics of the film and television industries in the Bristol region. This was…
Publications
Our books, reports, and peer-reviewed articles have shaped debate and informed policy on a wide range of screen industry issues, from the future of public service broadcasting to regional production and the documentary film sector.
Sean Connery: Acting, stardom and national identity
Professor Andrew Spicer’s study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and…
Go West! 2
The report, focusing on research undertaken between 2017 and 2022 argues that Bristol, in terms of company numbers and variety, is the second largest screen production cluster after London and…
Writing Film Industry History
The chapter explores the various ways in which scholars have defined and approached writing about film industry history through discussing how it has been defined and delimited (the object of…
FEATURED PROJECT
Mapping Bristol’s Screen Industries
Our featured project, undertaken by Professor Andrew Spicer and Dr. Steve Presence is a longitudinal study of Bristol’s film and TV industries, mapping expansion between 2017 and 2022.
