...Iona Burnell Reilly Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine the lived experiences of working-class academics. As an under-represented and marginalised group in higher education (HE), working-class academics have been traditionally excluded from what was and in some cases still...

...Kamil Luczaj Purpose The overarching question of this paper is, “What are the advantages of being an upwardly mobile academic?” The extant academic research on working-class academics has usually emphasized various kinds of “deficits” of working-class academics. In this paper, the author...