Diane Reay

Diane Reay grew up in a working class, coal mining community before becoming an inner city, primary school teacher for 20 years. She is now a Visiting Professor at the LSE and Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge. Her main research interests are social justice issues in education, Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory, and cultural analyses of social class, race and gender. Her most recent book is Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes Policy Press, 2017.