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...
Editorial: Flipping the deficit narrative: Working-class people in UK higher education
Working-class people in UK higher education (UKHE) have historically been viewed through the lens of deficit (Crew, 2024), amid a shifting and transient understanding of what it means to be...
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Fiona Patrick
Fiona Patrick is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Cultures, Literacy, Inclusion and Pedagogy research and teaching group (CLIP) and...
Framing for participation: Creating space for working-class students’ academic growth
Ed recently completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and teaches academic skills at Oxford. Isabelle is an undergraduate historian who works with Ed regularly....
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Luke Jackson
Luke Jackson is a part-time EdD student at the University of Warwick and a full-time Appropriate Body Lead for the Star Teaching School Hub (Birmingham South). Luke is a qualified secondary modern...
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 ...
Celebrating working-class strengths in higher education: Leveraging capitals to change the narrative
In higher education (HE), working-class people have long been viewed through a deficit lens which overlooks their cultural wealth and transformative potential. Drawing from our edited collection...
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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...
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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