Main content

Elite Universities - Working Class Students

Class and Education: Laurie Taylor explores elite universities and the lives of working class academics.

CLASS AND EDUCATION
Laurie Taylor talks to Kalwant Bhopal, Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham, about her research into the inner workings of elite universities and the making of privilege.

They're joined by Iona Burnell Reilly, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of East London, whose latest study presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education, and considers how have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

Available now

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:15

Guests and Further Reading

Book: The Lives of听Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above your Station

(Emerald Publishing Limited)

Book: Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies by & (Routledge)

Broadcasts

  • Wed 12 Apr 2023 16:00
  • Mon 17 Apr 2023 00:15

Explore further with The Open University

成人快手 Thinking Allowed is produced in partnership with The Open University

Download this programme

Subscribe to this programme or download individual episodes.

Podcast