Reece Sohdi
Reece Sohdi is a lecturer on the PGCE Further Education and Skills course and programme leader for the Learning and Skills Teacher (LST) apprenticeship at the University of Sunderland in the...
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Samantha Jayne Hulston
Dr Samantha Jayne Hulston is currently a recipient of a BERA Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship. Samantha completed her PhD in Education at the Faculty of Education, University...
Nicola Wallis
Dr Nicola Wallis is a practitioner research associate in Early Childhood and Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. With a background in primary and nursery education, she now...
The centre should not hold: Class-based disablism in the academy
Universities play a key role in the ‘meritocratic myth’. In our contribution to this BERA Blog special issue, we consider how disability and social class challenge the persistent regulative...
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Disempowering imposterism in higher education
Nelson Mandela famously stated: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ But to weaponise education for change, people from all backgrounds must be able...
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Savannah Gill
Savannah Gill is a class teacher at a small primary school in Cambridgeshire and a student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores how play-based writing pedagogy influences ...
Lynne Hill
Lynne Hill is an early years teacher within a forest-based preschool, following broadly child-led and Reggio Emilia approaches as well as borrowing from Montessori. Following a master’s in...
Adopting ‘a view from within’: On the importance of centring working-class knowledges in university curricula
UK higher education (HE) has undergone profound transformation since its early inception. No longer the preserve of the elite few, HE has since massified. Despite the expansion of UK HE being a...
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Why working-class perspectives make science education stronger
Science is often celebrated as the ultimate meritocracy. But while scientific Truth may be objective, the process of discovery is deeply influenced by who gets to participate in it. For too long,...
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What can working-class professional services staff bring to the academy and why does it matter?
There is plenty of literature examining the challenges that people from working-class backgrounds face in UK higher education – particularly in more ‘elite’ institutions (Reay et al., 2018)...
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Harper Staples
Harper Staples is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Education at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She has a Doctorate in Educational Sciences from the University of Cambridge, where her...
Black working-class and missing: Where is the representation?
In this post for this BERA Blog special issue I reflect on the underrepresentation of Black working-class voices, which remain starkly underrepresented in education and literature. This is not...
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