Jessie Abrahams Editor & Author

Jenny Thatcher has recently completed her PhD at the University of East London. Her PhD focused on Polish migration and the education market in the UK in which she used a Bourdieusian framework. She is a co-founder and co-convenor of the BSA Bourdieu Study Group and member of the Early Career Researcher editorial board for The Sociological Review.

Nicola Ingram is a Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at the University of Bath. She has published widely on classed and gendered inequalities in education. Nicola is co-convenor of the BSA Bourdieu Study Group and the BSA Education Study Group.

Ciaran Burke is a Lecturer at Ulster University and author of "Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of class" (forthcoming Routledge). His research focuses on classed inequalities with a particular interest in graduate employment trajectories. He is a co-convenor of the BSA Bourdieu Study Group.

Jessie Abrahams is one of the co-convenors of the Bourdieu Study Group. Jessie is a PhD student at Cardiff University. Her thesis is focussed on the effect of the increased university tuition fees on young peoples’ "aspirations". She has been researching in the area of class and education for a number of years now and is also part of the Paired Peers research team. Paired Peers is a six year Leverhulme trust funded project exploring the impact of class, gender and institution on a cohort of young people as they transition to, through and from university.