Apologies for slow response, here’s a sample, I have a bigger list coming up on my search but I’ve not curated it and it’s 11pm and need to crash, the following are peer-reviewed:

Scottish Indy ref bias

Greig, A. (2016) ‘Sentiment Analysis of the BBC’s Digital Content during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign’, Scottish Affairs, 25(4), pp. 419–435. DOI: 10.3366/scot.2016.0150

“evidence that suggests that the BBC’s coverage, on the whole, was more favourable to the No campaign.”

Lewis, J. and Cushion, S. (2019)** ‘Think Tanks, Television News and Impartiality: The Ideological Balance of Sources in BBC Programming’, Journalism Studies, 20(4), pp. 480–499. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389295 Content analysis of think-tank sourcing across BBC output. Right-leaning and free-market think tanks are cited more often and are less often ideologically labelled than left-leaning ones. The single most direct peer-reviewed rebuttal of the “BBC is left-wing” claim

Wahl-Jorgensen, K., Berry, M., Garcia-Blanco, I., Bennett, L. and Cable, J. (2017)** ‘Rethinking Balance and Impartiality in Journalism? How the BBC Attempted and Failed to Change the Paradigm’, Journalism, 18(7), pp. 781–800. DOI: 10.1177/1464884916648094 Finds the BBC dominated by a narrow range of elite party-political voices, with business and City sources heavily over-represented relative to labour or civil-society voices. "the BBC presents “a Conservative, Eurosceptic, pro-business version of the world” "

Walsh, M. (2025)** ‘Constructing Impartiality in a Polarised News Environment: An Analysis of BBC Question Time Contributors 2014–2024’, Journalism. DOI: 10.1177/14648849251413467 Decade-long panel-composition analysis of the BBC’s flagship political debate programme

Berry, M. (2016)** ‘No Alternative to Austerity: How BBC Broadcast News Reported the Deficit Debate’, Media, Culture & Society, 38(6), pp. 844–863. BBC news coverage reproduced a narrow deficit-reduction consensus and marginalised alternative macroeconomic positions

Cushion, S., Lewis, J. and Groves, C. (2009)** ‘Reflecting the Four Nations? An Analysis of Reporting Devolution on UK Network News Media’, Journalism Studies, 10(5), pp. 655–671. DOI: 10.1080/14616700902797242 The peer-reviewed version of the devolution-blindness finding: UK network news systematically reported England-only policy as if it were UK-wide.