Employment in the film industry lecture

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UK expert to deliver public lecture on employment in the film industry

A UK expert on employment in the creative industries, Professor Keith Randle from the University of Hertfordshire Business School, United Kingdom, is visiting the Victoria Management School next week. During his visit he will give a public lecture about employment in the film industry titled ‘Industry, Insecurity and Inequality: Getting in and Getting on in Film Production’.

Based on studies in the US and UK, Professor Randle will explore the relationship between the structure of the industry and the experience of work in film production.

Work in film is dominated by freelancing and temporary projects. Although barriers to entry to the industry are low, barriers to success are high and there is evidence of marginalisation on the basis of ethnicity, gender and age. Nevertheless, employees in film production report a kind of 'precarious stability' where strategies can be employed to reduce uncertainty and ensure a degree of continuity in employment and career development.

Public lecture: ‘Industry, Insecurity and Inequality: Getting in and Getting on in Film Production’

Date: Thursday 11 November

Time: 6-7pm

Location: Government Building Lecture Theatre 3 (GBLT3), 55 Lambton Quay, Wellington

About Professor Keith Randle  

Professor Randle is Professor of Work and Organisation and Director of Research and Consultancy at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK. His research interests focus on the management and labour processes of knowledge workers, especially those associated with the creative industries, and he has published widely on this subject in academic, practitioner and popular media.

Professor Randle leads the Business School’s Creative Industries Research and Consultancy Unit (CIRCU) which incorporates FiRG (the Film Industry Research Group) created in 1998.

He has led teams carrying out film/TV related consultancy projects for a number of public organisations including; the Government of Malta, the UK Broadcasting Equality and Training Regulator (BETR), Skillset (the UK Sector Skills Council for Creative Media Industries) and the EU. He has been awarded research grants and led research teams funded by, among others, the EU ESF/EQUAL and SOCRATES Funds and the British Academy.
 
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