Bridget Byrne

Bridget is Director of CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity) at the University of Manchester and her most recent book 'All in the Mix: race, class and school choice' (written with Carla de Tona) came out this year and is available free to down load (https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526139306/9781526139306.xml). This book examines how parent's choose secondary schools for their chidlren and focuses on how parents talk about race, religion and class in the selection process.

Her previous books are: 'White Lives. The Interplay of 'race', class and gender in everyday life' (Routledge 2006) and 'Making Citizens: Public Rituals, Celebrations and Contestations of Citizenship' (Palgrave, 2014).

Bridget is currently working on a project on ethnic inequalities in the cultural industries, focusing on museums and factual TV production.
She is also a governor in a primary school in Manchester.