Conference Programme 2021

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Programme - Day 1

Programme - Day 2

Day 1 – Tuesday 13th July

9:10 – 9:45

Welcome and Keynote speaker: Lisa Mckenzie (Zoom room 1)

9:50 – 11:20

Parallel Session 1

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Lou Mycroft

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Ian Duckett

Solidarity Spaces and Working Class Voices

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

Class, Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of English Heritage

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

From Shame to Shero: Embracing Vulnerability

The working class academic as bricoleur

15 minutes break

11:35 – 13:05

Parallel Session 2

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Maria Impedovo

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Jo Fletcher-Saxon

Claire Sedgwick

Class and Stand Up Comedy

Sinead Blackledge

The Orignal Derry Girl

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

Social Construct of Academic Vs Vocational

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

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

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Cheryl Hedges

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Andrew Preater

Changing female narratives

Garry Nicholson

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

Eileen Mary Fitzgerald

A Working-Class Academic: Life as an Oxymoron

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

The Labour Humanities

15 minutes break

15:35 – 17:05

Parallel Session 4

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Laura Bentley

Zoom Room 2. 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

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

Class Alienation in the ‘Prestigious’ Educational Institution

Find Your Voice: Lived Experience as Knowledge

Becka White & Dan Alefounder

Academic Terminology

The Imprisoned Student

Football hooliganism as a textile heritage

15 minutes break

17:20 – 18:50

Parallel Session 5

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

Zoom Room 2. 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

The Uncomfortable City

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

A Community of Caring in a Community of Conflict

Michelle Jamieson

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

Why Our Stories Matter

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

We Are Not Alone

Day 2 – Wednesday 14th July

9:10 – 9:45

Welcome and Keynote speaker: Valerie Walkerdine (Zoom room 1)

9:50 – 11:20

Parallel Session 1

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Caroline Bald

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Teresa Crew

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

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

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

The Paper Self: Reauthoring my ‘spoiled’ identity

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

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

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Lou Mycroft

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Lisa Taylor

Luton 2050: Working Class Communities Imagining Their Future

The empty rhetoric of ‘raising aspirations’

Darren Bowles & Katie Ketcher

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

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

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

Zoom Room 1. Chair: Alex Dunedin

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Kay Sidebottom

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

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

Clever but not Posh

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

Digital Autoethnography a pedagogy for empowerment

10 minutes break

15:30 – 17:15

Parallel Session 4

Zoom Room 1. 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.

Zoom Room 2. Chair: Elaine J Laberge

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sarah madoka currie クリ窓花 [優先の名前]

PSYCHOTIC PROJECTIONS: the slow violence of recounting students imperiled by academy politics

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Jasmine Jade Plumpton

Words Between Worlds: Poetry and ‘Habitus Dislocation’

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Jasmine Jade Plumpton

Words Between Worlds: Poetry and ‘Habitus Dislocation’

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Clare Bell & Nathan O’Donnell

“Let everyone in. Let everyone play”. Radical zines, strike action, protest and participation

Roy Claire Potter

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Finding Dignity

10 minutes break

17:25 – 18:00

Keynote speaker and Close: Antonia Darder (Zoom room 1)

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