Generation Next: How To Be A Top Researcher

Good research skills are the backbone of TV. As part of the role, researchers develop programme ideas, are fact checkers, find contributors and locations and source archive material. A good researcher can quickly establish rapport with key members of the production team and potential contributors... and become indispensable. The panel is made up of emerging talent in this area who tell it like it is, as well as execs running a team who will offer advice on how to stand out.

Featuring Hannah Keep, Casting Producer/Assistant Producer, The Garden (24 Hours in A&E, Saved), Michelle Matherson, Talent Executive, Shiver (Come Dine with Me, For the Love of Dogs, 56 Up), Joe Smith, Assistant Producer, Blakeway (Dispatches), Neil Smith, Creative Director, Betty TV (Bear’s Wild Weekend with Stephen Fry, Country House Rescue). Chaired by Laura Mansfield. Recorded at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly on 9 May 2015.