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Dr Jessica Gagnon has worked in higher education in the US and UK for 20 years. She is a sociologist of higher education whose research is primarily focused on inequalities, particularly in STEM. Her recent projects include the RSC-funded LGBTQual+ project; the EPSRC-funded IGNITE+; the NERC-funded E-DIAL project; the EPSRC-funded STEM Equals project, and the SLiC-funded See Yourself in STEM project. She grew up in a working-class, single-mother family and is the first in her family to attend university.
This was a joint event between the Higher Education SIG, Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG & Early Career Researcher Network. This event shared narratives of starting points and strategies...
