Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry

Susan Liddy lectures in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in MIC, University of Limerick. Her recent work includes: Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers (ed.) (2020)and Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power (ed.) (2020). She is Chair of Women in Film & Television Ireland; a board member of the Writers Guild of Ireland; Raising Films Ireland; and Women in Film & Television International.

Anne O’Brien is Associate Professor with the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University. She has published on the representation of women in radio and television, on women workers in creative industries and examined why women leave careers in screen production. Her most recent book explores Women, Inequality and Media Work (2019).