Amy Genders Research Fellow at the University of the West of England

Dr Amy Genders is a Wallscourt Fellow in Screen Business and Creative Enterprise at the University of the West of England Bristol. Her current research primarily concerns freelance labour, regional production and cultural value. She has recently completed a one-year AHRC-funded project investigating the contribution of freelancers to Bristol’s creative economy, the findings of which were published in a 2019 report entitled An Invisible Army: The Role of Freelance Labour in Bristol’s Film and Television Industries. She is also working on a monograph entitled ‘This Temple of the Arts’: 100 Years of BBC Arts Broadcasting. She has also contributed to a number of media policy consultations and inquiries, including Ofcom’s 2017 BBC regulation consultation and Goldsmiths, University of London’s 2016 inquiry into the future of public service television.