Will Baker is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on education, food insecurity and educational inequality – particularly how it connects to parenting. Will has recently conducted a project that has explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children’s centres. He is currently conducting a project on the growth of food banks in schools and how this connects to the ‘cost of living’ crisis, schooling, poverty and educational inequality. Will’s research has been published in venues such as the British Journal of Sociology and the British Journal of Sociology of Education.