Tracy Willits

My career in television spans over 20 years. I started out as a BBC trainee reporter in local radio before landing my first job in television as a researcher in BBC Factual Entertainment. I got the opportunity to work on some of the BBC’s flagship shows including ‘That’s Life’ and the late night chat show ‘Friday Night with Wogan’. Later I worked as a producer at GMTV and Granada overseeing Lorraine Live and This Morning (RTS Best Production Team). A move to an independent TV company in York led to me working as series producer on a multitude of formatted documentaries for Discovery and Sky One – most notably The Real A and E and Wartime Secrets.

Before joining York St John University, I was a senior lecturer in Media Production at Teesside University. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.