Diversity in Post Production Sound

This research, conducted throughout August 2024 to January 2025, is a follow up to the Diversity in UK post-production Sound report published in 2020, funded by the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. The aim of repeating this research process is to see whether the industry has achieved progress, stayed the same, or regressed in terms of the diversity of the post-production sound workforce.

In order to get a sense of the wider landscape, the research examined the top 15 highest rated UK TV shows (with post-production sound based in the UK) on BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky One, each month across a 3 month period (August, September and October 2024) to identify the gender, racial and class diversity across the key post-production sound team roles. This initial data was accessed from Broadcast magazine’s 28-day consolidated genre overview tables on highest rated shows (published online 2024), on screen credits, and IMDB. This research also involved interviews with a diverse range of professionals working in post-production sound in the UK to identify barriers to career progression in this area. This research evidences a worrying absence of diversity in post-production sound teams