Sarah McDonald is a lecturer based at the Centre for Research in Education & Social Inclusion in UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia. Her research interests are in gendered subjectivities, girlhood, social mobility, social barriers and inequalities in education. Sarah’s first co-authored book, Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity was published by Routledge in 2022.