Channing Morsali

Profile

In 2012 I gained a first-class honours BSc in Music and Sound Technology, and I was awarded the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Music Enterprise. I began a career in music events and radio where I worked for companies such as the BBC, before quickly moving across into the television industry. I now work as a Television Producer and specialise in factual entertainment and documentaries, though I have worked in most areas of unscripted television.

I have worked on multiple award-winning shows, and in 2023 I gained a place on the Series Producer Programme. The programme runs in partnership with TRC Media and Screen Skills and involves over 100 hours of training covering all aspects of working in television. As a Television Producer I was particularly invested in supporting new entrants into the industry and I was interested in the experiences of the workers around me in relation to how they each navigated their careers in an industry that has quite unusual practices.

My interest in the experience of television industry workers led to me applying to study at the University of Leeds. I was successful in gaining a funded place on the Economic and Social Research Council White Rose Doctoral training partnership. I began a Master's degree in Social Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. I explored motherhood and class in the television industry and gained a Distinction. I am now undertaking a qualitative study within the school of Media and Communication on the experiences of working-class women negotiating labour within the television industry. I aim to understand both the experiences of working-class women negotiating labour and the ways in which their class and sex may be impacting this negotiation process. I intend for this discussion of class and sex to also assist in wider discussions on inequality, social mobility and experiences of creative labour. My research hopes to consolidate and build upon existing research on class, feminism and cultural labour from the fields of Media and Communication and Sociology.

In 2023 I worked as a Teaching Assistant in the school of Sociology and Social policy, where I taught Political Communications. In 2021-2023 I was regular guest lecturer at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. I continue to work in television alongside my research.

Research interests

My main research interests concern social class and feminism within the creative industries.

I am also intersted in

- Creative labour, employment and careers

- Creative and Cultural industries

- Social mobility

- Qualitiative research

Qualifications

• MA (Distinction)
• BSc (1st class hons)