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Exhibitors and Sponsors

Packages: To book any of the packages, please email [email protected].  Exhibition package: The exhibition hall is positioned to capture maximum customer engagement during formal breaks and...

Reece Sohdi

Reece Sohdi is a senior lecturer on the PGCE Further Education and Skills course at the University of Sunderland in the Faculty of Education, Society and Creative Industries. He is a Fellow of the...

Samantha Jayne Hulston

Dr Samantha Jayne Hulston is currently a recipient of a ½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship. Samantha completed her PhD in Education at the Faculty of Education, University...

Nicola Wallis

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue, we consider how disability and social class challenge the persistent regulative...

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...

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 ...