Dr Emma Simpson is an honorary senior research fellow at the Institute of Education, UCL and a senior research manager at The Difference (an educational charity specialising in school inclusion). She has worked in the English education system for 26 years: for 12 years as a teacher and leader in inner London schools, for 14 years as an educational consultant, and (concurrently) for five years as a researcher. She has particular interest in social justice, white working-class engagement and achievement, inclusion, equality, classism, racism, and the potential of more progressive forms of education than currently prevail in England.