Richard Paterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 387270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Paterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Paterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATERSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Film Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0004-5164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The BFI, Cultural Diversity and its Faltering Response to Social and Epistemic Injustice
Over its history the BFI since its foundation in 1933 has regularly had to contend with changes in culture and in relation to issues of diversity, from the language used in cataloguing films in its archive to the funding of films which reflect Britain’s evolving population and demography. This article traces that history through the lens of institutional thinking and describes repeated initiatives to address perceived epistemic injustices in Brit…
Doctoral writing through a trajectorial lens: An exploratory study on challenges, strategies and relationships
Obituary: ‘The role and importance of institutions’: Tony Smith
Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale, Sustainability and the Digital Challenge
Reproduced, reinterpreted, lost: Trajectories of scientific knowledge across contexts
This article reports on a research project that uses two innovative heuristics to examine the changes that texts – produced to disseminate new scientific knowledge – undergo when they travel across space and time. A critical analysis of such transformations would enhance our understanding of the processes involved in knowledge dissemination and inform the practice of communicating scientific knowledge to a variety of audiences. Based on our study…
Early independent production entrepreneurs in the UK television: Pioneering agents of neoliberal intervention
This essay focuses on the operation of the UK independent television production sector in the context of the entrepreneurial aspirations of company owners in the 1990s. The calculative practices used running these small and medium sized companies are examined and the experiences in managing them are mapped as they negotiated an evolving fitness landscape. Analysis is provided of the strategies adopted including the need to develop reputation and …
Because Sometimes Your Failures Can Also Teach You Certain Skills’: Lecturer and Student Perceptions of Employability Skills at a Transnational University
This exploratory study investigates lecturers’ and students’ understanding of the concepts and language underpinning higher education strategies of developing employability skills. While a solid grounding in discipline-specific knowledge and skills is what most graduate degrees aim at providing, employability skills are increasingly becoming an important factor when evaluating prospective employees. Embedding the acquisition of employability skil…
Public Policy and Independent Television Production In the U.K.
The structure and performance of the independent televisionproduction sector in the UK have been strongly affected by public policy interventions. Such interventions have introduced more competition andhave generally sought to strengthen the position of ‘indies’ by, forexample, raising levels of demand for their output amongst domesticvertically integrated broadcasters. However, the efficacy of such policies in terms of developing a thriving and …
Work histories in television
The labour market in Britain's television industry has been transformed in the last 20 years with the emergence of a large freelance workforce and proliferation of work on short-term contracts. This article uses data from the BFI `Television Industry Tracking Study', a major longitudinal study of creative workers in television carried out between 1994 and 1998. Case studies of individuals with contrasting work histories are used to compare variat…
Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty: The effects of Contractual Changes in the Television Industry
Changes in the competitive and regulative conditions of British television over the 1980s and 1990s make for an environment of increased uncertainty for those who work in television. Broadcasting legislation, increased competition and technological advances have changed the working practices of the UK's 28,000 production workforce. The introduction of a 25 per cent quota of independent productions on all terrestrial channels, the implementation o…
Bosnia by Television
Examines the different ways in which the Bosnian war was reported on television across the former Yugoslavia, Europe and the West. The essays consider the extent to which television news about Bosnia had an impact on government policy and public opinion. There is also an attempt to provide a deeper understanding of the general political and cultural dimensions of the television news genre
Planning the Family: The Art of the Television Schedule
So far, most work about television has concentrated on the production of programmes, their analysis as 'texts' and their 'consumption' by audiences. Less attention has been paid to the circulation of programmes through the television schedule, the regulation of the schedule by legislative and policy concerns, and the way the schedule actually works on the audience. What I want to explore in this article is how what is produced, mapped over the in…
State Heroes for the Eighties
Journal Article State Heroes for the Eighties Get access Richard Paterson, Richard Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip Schlesinger Philip Schlesinger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 3, May/June 1983, Pages 55–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.3.55 Published: 01 May 1983
Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty: The effects of Contractual Changes in the Television Industry
Changes in the competitive and regulative conditions of British television over the 1980s and 1990s make for an environment of increased uncertainty for those who work in television. Broadcasting legislation, increased competition and technological advances have changed the working practices of the UK's 28,000 production workforce. The introduction of a 25 per cent quota of independent productions on all terrestrial channels, the implementation o…
Work histories in television
The labour market in Britain's television industry has been transformed in the last 20 years with the emergence of a large freelance workforce and proliferation of work on short-term contracts. This article uses data from the BFI `Television Industry Tracking Study', a major longitudinal study of creative workers in television carried out between 1994 and 1998. Case studies of individuals with contrasting work histories are used to compare variat…
State Heroes for the Eighties
Journal Article State Heroes for the Eighties Get access Richard Paterson, Richard Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip Schlesinger Philip Schlesinger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 3, May/June 1983, Pages 55–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.3.55 Published: 01 May 1983
Planning the Family: The Art of the Television Schedule
So far, most work about television has concentrated on the production of programmes, their analysis as 'texts' and their 'consumption' by audiences. Less attention has been paid to the circulation of programmes through the television schedule, the regulation of the schedule by legislative and policy concerns, and the way the schedule actually works on the audience. What I want to explore in this article is how what is produced, mapped over the in…
Bosnia by Television
Examines the different ways in which the Bosnian war was reported on television across the former Yugoslavia, Europe and the West. The essays consider the extent to which television news about Bosnia had an impact on government policy and public opinion. There is also an attempt to provide a deeper understanding of the general political and cultural dimensions of the television news genre
Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty: The effects of Contractual Changes in the Television Industry
Changes in the competitive and regulative conditions of British television over the 1980s and 1990s make for an environment of increased uncertainty for those who work in television. Broadcasting legislation, increased competition and technological advances have changed the working practices of the UK's 28,000 production workforce. The introduction of a 25 per cent quota of independent productions on all terrestrial channels, the implementation o…
Work histories in television
The labour market in Britain's television industry has been transformed in the last 20 years with the emergence of a large freelance workforce and proliferation of work on short-term contracts. This article uses data from the BFI `Television Industry Tracking Study', a major longitudinal study of creative workers in television carried out between 1994 and 1998. Case studies of individuals with contrasting work histories are used to compare variat…
Public Policy and Independent Television Production In the U.K.
The structure and performance of the independent televisionproduction sector in the UK have been strongly affected by public policy interventions. Such interventions have introduced more competition andhave generally sought to strengthen the position of ‘indies’ by, forexample, raising levels of demand for their output amongst domesticvertically integrated broadcasters. However, the efficacy of such policies in terms of developing a thriving and …
Early independent production entrepreneurs in the UK television: Pioneering agents of neoliberal intervention
This essay focuses on the operation of the UK independent television production sector in the context of the entrepreneurial aspirations of company owners in the 1990s. The calculative practices used running these small and medium sized companies are examined and the experiences in managing them are mapped as they negotiated an evolving fitness landscape. Analysis is provided of the strategies adopted including the need to develop reputation and …
Because Sometimes Your Failures Can Also Teach You Certain Skills’: Lecturer and Student Perceptions of Employability Skills at a Transnational University
This exploratory study investigates lecturers’ and students’ understanding of the concepts and language underpinning higher education strategies of developing employability skills. While a solid grounding in discipline-specific knowledge and skills is what most graduate degrees aim at providing, employability skills are increasingly becoming an important factor when evaluating prospective employees. Embedding the acquisition of employability skil…
Reproduced, reinterpreted, lost: Trajectories of scientific knowledge across contexts
This article reports on a research project that uses two innovative heuristics to examine the changes that texts – produced to disseminate new scientific knowledge – undergo when they travel across space and time. A critical analysis of such transformations would enhance our understanding of the processes involved in knowledge dissemination and inform the practice of communicating scientific knowledge to a variety of audiences. Based on our study…
Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale, Sustainability and the Digital Challenge
Obituary: ‘The role and importance of institutions’: Tony Smith
Doctoral writing through a trajectorial lens: An exploratory study on challenges, strategies and relationships
The BFI, Cultural Diversity and its Faltering Response to Social and Epistemic Injustice
Over its history the BFI since its foundation in 1933 has regularly had to contend with changes in culture and in relation to issues of diversity, from the language used in cataloguing films in its archive to the funding of films which reflect Britain’s evolving population and demography. This article traces that history through the lens of institutional thinking and describes repeated initiatives to address perceived epistemic injustices in Brit…
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