Most people in the cultural sector dislike self-identifying their class, and context can affect how comfortable people are responding to questions about inequality, says Dr Susan Oman in a blog outlining her research on measuring social mobility in the arts.
At the London Film Festival last week, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced it was going to start measuring ‘class and socio-economic background in their funding and staffing’. This move reflects the growing attention given to inequalities in the arts: academic evidence increasingly shows that cultural professions are unequal across ethnicity, gender, age, disability and class.
How we measure class and social mobility to reveal inequality is a thorny issue, however. Labour Leader Jerem... Keep reading on AHRC