Skills Shortages, Gaps and Training Needs in the screen industries in Yorkshire and the Humber:Scoping Report

This scoping report contributes to this growing body of work about skills and training in the CCIs by focusing specifically on issues within the screen industries1 in the UK. The aim of this report is three-fold. First, based on an analysis of previous work, this report synthesizes and analyses knowledge about skills and training in the screen industries (film, television, animation visual effects and videogame industries). Second, drawing on data from reports and interviews with the industry’s representatives, it provides insights into skills and training challenges observed in Yorkshire and the Humber region. Third, it identifies further research areas and gaps in knowledge in planning further research activities for the Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN) project. In achieving these aims, we highlight how the fragmentation of knowledge about the skills and training issues in the screen industries reflects the ways they are conceptualised and, in some cases, reproduced by the industry itself.