The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above your Station - digital event, March 6th
Book tickets here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-lives-of-working-class-academics-getting-ideas-above-your-station-tickets-552657341987
Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what makes the life of a working class academic all the more interesting, rich and powerful. How have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism? How have they navigated their way, and what has the journey been like? Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and/or identities shifted?
The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above your Station is a collection of autoethnographies edited by Dr Iona Burnell Reilly. Each is written by a working class academic in higher education. Topics include how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. To celebrate its release, we are delighted to be joined by some of the authors for a panel discussion.
The speakers:
Dr Teresa Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bangor University and a Senior HEA Fellow. In 2020 she published a book on working-class academics entitled Higher Education and Working-Class Academics: Precarity and Diversity in Academia. Her research and teaching interests centre around the broad area of class and social inequalities.
Dr Iona Burnell Reilly is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Communities at the University of East London. Iona lectures in Sociology of Education. Her research interests are social class and inequality in education; widening participation in higher education; and the experiences of the working class in HE. Iona’s teaching experience and background is in Further Education, where she taught English Language (ESOL) and Access courses at an inner London college for 10 years before moving into Higher Education.
Dr Carli Rowell is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex, as well as a sociologist, feminist and ethnographer and much of her work grapples with issues pertaining to contemporary social, spatial and geopolitical (im)mobilities particularly in relation to educational (in)equalities. She has conducted funded research on working-class students’ experiences at an elite UK university (ESRC) and working-class early career researchers’ experiences of moving through doctoral study into/and out of the academic workforce (SRHE). She tweets at: @carliriarowell.
Dr Steve Wong is a Senior Lecturer of Education Studies at the University of East London and Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at UCL Institute of Education in London. His research interests relate to the broad areas of language and social interaction, and cultures of hybridity arising from the intersection of language(s), race and ethnicities. His work is informed by cross-disciplinary understandings of sociology, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, anthropology and education studies. His research takes the linguistic ethnographic approach.
For more information, Iona Burnell Reilly recently appeared on BBC’s Free Thinking to discuss women and working class students in higher education https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gyxw
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