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Our research and findings

This directory brings together research publications produced or supported by the Film and TV Charity, offering insight into the challenges faced by people working in UK film, TV, and cinema.

Our aim is to produce industry-leading research that helps us and others develop evidence-based, practical interventions to improve the industry’s working culture and conditions.

  • Film crew member on set of the Film and TV Charity's brand film, Break the Cycle

    Make Freelancing Pay

    [Report in partnership] Looking at changes to the UK tax and benefits system, and how that could help film and TV industry freelancers

    Published 6 March 2025 

  • A crew huddled around a tent on an outside shoot

    Looking Glass Survey 2024

    The 2024 edition of our landmark mental health survey for behind the scenes workers

    Published 3 February 2025 

  • A colourist is sat in a dimly lit editing suite. They are silhouetted by the main playback monitor and they also have two screens to either side with various editing software screens open.

    Let’s Fix It In Post

    Explores current practices in post production, finding that many people working in the sector have their human rights impacted [Report in partnership]

    Published 10 January 2025 

  • Director of photography with a camera on a tripod in front of him. The set is dimly lit with some mechanical equipment as the focus.

    Understanding loneliness behind the scenes in film and TV

    A report from the Centre of Loneliness Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, looking at existing research on loneliness and highlighting the risks and remedies

    Published 9 September 2024 

  • Survey of Arab, Jewish and Muslim colleagues

    Understanding experiences relating to the conflict in Israel and Gaza on and after 7th October 2023

    Published 8 May 2024 

  • A young man is sat on a sofa. On his lap he has a laptop that he is attentively watching.

    Money Matters Report

    Understanding the finances and financial resilience of film, TV, and cinema industry workers

    Published 22 January 2024 

  • A camera operator is standing in a dimly lit studio space. There is a light shining from behind them which is silhouetting them.

    Looking Glass ​’22 Report

    The 2022 edition of our landmark study of mental health and wellbeing among the industry workforce

    Published 18 February 2023 

  • A woman sat on the floor in a living room wearing headphones and writing in a notebook. In front of her is a laptop and a pile of books.

    Mind-Craft Report

    The Mind-Craft report identifies the challenge of loneliness to the mental health of industry workers

    Published 28 October 2022 

  • A male boom operator is setting up their equipment. They are wearing cold weather gear whilst standing on an open bridge with a river below.

    Absent Friends report

    Modelling the youthful skew of those working in the film, TV, and cinema workforce, and shedding some light on the industry’s problems retaining older experienced workers

    Published 30 June 2022 

  • A selection of TV cameras on tripods.

    Sasha Salmon Think Piece

    Anti-racism in the film and TV industry, based on interviews with a range of key stakeholders

    Published 30 September 2021