Programme 2021 Links

How to navigate the conference:

All times listed are in BST.

The programme is the same as what is on the website for the general public to view, except that there are clickable links on this one to the Zoom rooms. Please do not share this link with anyone else.

The keynote speakers will all be in the Strand 1 Zoom room – there is a clickable link to the room next to the names of each keynote speaker.

Each parallel session has two strands: Strand 1 for those on the left-hand-side of the programme table and Strand 2 for those on the right-hand-side of the programme table. Next to each Chair’s name is a clickable link to the correct Zoom room for that session. Note that the links to Strand 1 and Strand 2 remain the same throughout both days, i.e. the link to Strand 1 will always be for the keynotes and those in the left-hand-side of the programme table and the link to Strand 2 will always take you to the sessions on the right-hand-side of the programme table. Here are the links for ease:

Keynotes and Strand 1

Strand 2

Day 1 – Tuesday 13th July

9:10 – 9:45

Welcome and Keynote speaker: Lisa Mckenzie (Strand 1 Zoom Room)

9:50 – 11:20

Parallel Session 1

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Lou Mycroft

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Ian Duckett

Fraser Mycroft

Solidarity Spaces and Working Class Voices

Alex Dunedin

Implicit Bias: The Gatekeeping of Environmental Consciousness and Activity

Jacqui Brewster

Throwing a ladder down. Helping the next generation of working-class nurses navigate nurse education at university

Nick Stevenson

Class, Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of English Heritage

Amanda Price

Tongue tied and criticized; re-negotiating the space between my head and my mouth

Michael Hepworth

Art, activism and class: challenging neo-liberalism in the adult migrant language classroom

Pamela Dale

From Shame to Shero: Embracing Vulnerability

Adam Poole

The working class academic as bricoleur

15 minutes break

11:35 – 13:05

Parallel Session 2

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Maria Impedovo

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Jo Fletcher-Saxon

Claire Sedgwick

Class and Stand Up Comedy

Sinead Blackledge

The Orignal Derry Girl

Jack Whatley

The Adventurer Economy – How Dispensable are Front-line Workers in Times of Turmoil?

Stacey Salt

Social Construct of Academic Vs Vocational

Andy Griffith

Social Justice: What organisations such as schools, colleges and universities can practically do to address it

Mike Scott

Seeing the Unseen

Aidan Teplitzky

Get to the _ _ _ _ing point: Embodying the affectual value of swearing in compositional language

Lunch break (45 minutes)

13:50 – 15:20

Parallel Session 3

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Cheryl Hedges

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Andrew Preater

Aamna Khokhar

Changing female narratives

Garry Nicholson

Bildung, Byker and B******s to Being Functional

Eileen Mary Fitzgerald

A Working-Class Academic: Life as an Oxymoron

Julie Devon

Space to Grow: sense of being, place and purpose. ‘Learning to feel well, a person-centred resource: becoming an expert in yourself

Sorca McDonnell

Emotion as part of a working class Doctoral journey

Richard Hudson-Miles

Notes on the Class Character of the Art School

Ben Hickman

The Labour Humanities

15 minutes break

15:35 – 17:05

Parallel Session 4

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Laura Bentley

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Kevan Thompson

Ben Campbell, Amy Goddard, Liz Henshaw & Celine Brookes Smith

Class & the Career Journey in Psychology

Anastasia Christou

Affordances of unhoming pedagogies: plunging into pandemic poetry as class struggle and survival

Maria Impedovo

How to valorize a working-class experience: Funds of Identity and Social Capital for Academics

Clive Trusson

Class Alienation in the ‘Prestigious’ Educational Institution

Shona Smith

Find Your Voice: Lived Experience as Knowledge

Becka White & Dan Alefounder

Academic Terminology

Lisa Kelly

The Imprisoned Student

Jamie Holman

Football hooliganism as a textile heritage

15 minutes break

17:20 – 18:50

Parallel Session 5

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Elaine J Laberge (Canadians Working in Class)

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Anastasia Christou

Tina Marie Bebbington

A Librarian’s Reflections on Class in Academia

Megan Holly Burns

The Political and the Aesthetic: Poems from Red Clydeside

Jes Annan

The Uncomfortable City

Amy Todd

‘Working class without guarantees’ – the writings of the Peckham Publishing Project

Charity Slobod

A Community of Caring in a Community of Conflict

Michelle Jamieson

An autoethnography of researching what you live with: working-classness and schizophrenia

Sarah Potts

Why Our Stories Matter

Lynn Arner

Lightweight Doctorates?: First-Generation University Students who Become English Faculty in Canada

Budd Hall

We Are Not Alone

Day 2 – Wednesday 14th July

9:10 – 9:45

Welcome and Keynote speaker: Valerie Walkerdine (Strand 1 Zoom Room)

9:50 – 11:20

Parallel Session 1

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Caroline Bald

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Teresa Crew

Wayne Reid

Ambition Navigation (my pathway into social work from my working-class background)

John P Egan

Boxed In: where have all the working class PhD holders gone

Aimee Grant

Awkward, Angry & Authentic? Lessons from dropping my Autistic “mask” in academia

Cecilia Muldoon

(Re)framing Social Justice in Higher Education and Widening Participation: From Affirmative Practice to Transformative Parity

Lys Stone

The Paper Self: Reauthoring my ‘spoiled’ identity

Laura Bentley

“I realised, ‘oh this is so middle-class, what the fuck am I doing here?’”: Working-class women graduates’ experiences of social mobility

Kaidong Yu

Negotiating Changing Structure of Educational Opportunity: Working-Class Students’ Experiences Across Generations

Rachael Goodwin

“There’s not a system to put your shit in”: Early findings from a qualitative exploration of working-class women academics’ lived experiences of wellbeing in UK Higher Education

15 minutes break

11:35 – 13:05

Parallel Session 2

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Lou Mycroft

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Lisa Taylor

Joanna Norton

Luton 2050: Working Class Communities Imagining Their Future

Jodie Pearce

The empty rhetoric of ‘raising aspirations’

Lucy Harding

Think Slow

Darren Bowles & Katie Ketcher

‘Benevolent oppression’, Autoethnographic dialogue of working-class academics; Freirean pedagogy, or disguised Neoliberal agenda in the language of social justice?

Lee Crookes

Feeling at home? Approaching the university through the lens of gentrification

Teresa Crew

Class and Masculinity – A square peg in a round hole

Jo Mcleod & Lisa Taylor

In conversation…an honest internal perspective of a ‘privileged’ external identity: what does it mean to be ‘white passing’?

Lunch break (45 minutes)

13:50 – 15:20

Parallel Session 3

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Alex Dunedin

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Kay Sidebottom

Murylo Batista

Protecting the People from Researchers: A Working Class View on Research Ethics and Regulations

Sharon Clancy

A Stranger in an alien land – Class, Cambridge and Pedagogy

Kirsty Fife, Lucy Brownson & Nenna Orie Chuku

Breaking Down Brick Walls: An open discussion of the needs of working-class ECRs

Cheryl Hedges

Clever but not Posh

Rachel Boyd

“The Image is No Longer Divided”: Listening as Practice

Joanna Neil

Digital Autoethnography a pedagogy for empowerment

10 minutes break

15:30 – 17:15

Parallel Session 4

Strand 1 Zoom Room. Chair: Peter Shukie

Panel title: After the End

This panel brings together performative works by four practice-researchers: Sean Edwards, Maria Fusco, Honor Gavin and Roy Claire Potter, to embody and discuss the modalities and vagrancies of working class creative-critical voices. Convened by Maria Fusco.

Strand 2 Zoom Room. Chair: Elaine J Laberge