Alliance of Working-Class Academics
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We are an international collection of working-class academics who, in 2018, formed the Alliance to support the #workingclass into and through #highereducation
Joined August 2019
Proud to organise this event on #workingclass and #belonging in #highereducation -at University of the West of England -along with colleagues and students from Leeds, Exeter and BCU universities: Sign up here: https://t.co/oYu0Ycyh2V
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BBC News - Civil service interns must all be working class, government says - BBC News https://t.co/pRvecwvrn7
bbc.co.uk
Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.
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Excellent talk this evening on Class and Accent prejudice - by Prof Tony Crowley - at our series of Doctoral Support Group/ #workingclass speaker series. Another great event coming up in April.
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Samantha Evans (@samisatwork) and Rebecca Whiting contribute to our understanding of how occupational contexts shape everyday constructions of class-based inequality in their article. Read now below. https://t.co/Y7nOJAMxoe
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Our next #workingclass Doctoral support group will be 7pm on Thu 23rd Jan, where Dr Deirdre O'Neill will help demystify academic publishing. Then 6pm on Tue 11th March we discuss accent prejudice with Prof Tony Crowley. For details: C.Johnston@uwe.ac.uk / S.Mottershaw@leeds.ac.uk
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Study shows extent to which wealth shaped the professoriate https://t.co/FZW76ifIEA
universityworldnews.com
A recent study reveals surprisingly little change over 70 years in the fact that most professors in US higher education institutions were drawn from r...
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Journal of Class & Culture 3.2 is out now! Including ‘Over the kitchen table: British storytelling as working-class art, belonging and resistance’ by Lisa Mckenzie. @J_ClassCulture @AWCAcademics
https://t.co/MwLo7NMCwn
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Excellent discussion on class and language tonight amongst the Doctoral support group - based on the blog post below, and so much more. #phd #workingclass
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EVENT #Workingclass Doctoral support Group: 5pm Wed 6th of Nov. A chance to discuss all things class and language - what does working class (status) mean (disadvantage, under-resourced, deprivation?) Contact c.johnston@uwe.ac.uk Or, S.Mottershaw@leeds.ac.uk #PhD #AcademicChatter
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A brief snippet of the paper: https://t.co/8hX7jMw80k
#highereducation #education #research @AWCAcademics @wcstudies
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6 years ago, 'Being working-class in the Academy' was published, and 'we' were 'born' .... and continue to go from strength to strength in y/our efforts to support the #workingclass in #HigherEducation
https://t.co/Znrn8xK35C
https://t.co/3WInxOZInk
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Excellent and insightful session this evening on employment beyond academia as part of our #workingclass #PhD/ Doctoral student support group 👌 next session in November - come join us! Organised by @SMottershaw
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Our next #workingclass Doctoral #phd student support group meeting takes place 7-9pm on Thu 26th Sept, with @louisemfolkes (Office for Students) & Ruth Winden University of Leeds) talking about non-academic research careers. If interested, please do email C.Johnston@uwe.ac.uk.
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Our next #workingclass Doctoral #phd student support group meeting takes place 7-9pm on Thu 26th Sept, with @louisemfolkes (Office for Students) & Ruth Winden University of Leeds) talking about non-academic research careers. If interested, please do email C.Johnston@uwe.ac.uk.
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Our next Doctoral #phd student support meeting takes place 7-9pm on Thu 26th Sept, with @louisemfolkes (Office for Students) and Ruth Winden University of Leeds) talking about non-academic research careers. If you are interested in attending, please email C.Johnston@uwe.ac.uk.
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