Traditional living wage research has been the purview of economists, but recently
contributions from the field of work psychology have challenged existing perspectives …

Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working
class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in …

In recent decades, accelerating processes of globalization and an increase in economic
inequality in most of the world's countries have raised the question of the emergence of a …

Drawing on empirical data this paper explores how a new articulation of meritocracy has
emerged over time in UK Higher Education. To this end, we analyze the five major HE …

In many European societies, arts education and culture play a central role in their education
systems. In England, the situation is very different. There, for the last two decades, the state …

The last few decades have been marked by discourses that challenge many basic
presumptions supporting liberal democracy. Populist parties in particular have raised …

In higher education, non-traditional students experience a range of challenges, from
aspiration and access into university to academic progress and success in their degree …

Much has been written about the “luxified skies”–“high-rise”,“super-prime” housing for the
super-rich–that has been sprouting up across London. Thus far, less attention has been paid …

After a period of declining interest in elites among social scientists, elite studies are now
reviving. But it is important to understand why the decline occurred. We examine the largely …

This is a study of a school-based volunteering programme; an ethnography of six girls
enrolled onto the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (DofE) at their secondary school in a …