Teresa Crew

Dr Teresa Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy with research interests spanning issues of social inequality, higher education, and policy. More specifically Dr. Crew's research explores the barriers faced by working class people and other disadvantaged groups in society and education. She is the author of various articles and two books

- The Intersections of a Working Class Academic Identity. A Class Apart. *Thanks to funding from Knowledge Unlatched this ebook is open access, and freely available to download https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93383

- Higher Education and Working-Class Academics: Precarity and Diversity in Academia

Teresa is also currently co-editing a handbook about class and culture and also co-editing a book on working class people in higher education.

She has also conducted research into graduate employment and regional labour markets, as well as the exclusion and discrimination experienced by Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.

Dr. Crew's research typically employs qualitative methodologies including semi structured interviews, focus groups, ethnography and autoethnography.

In 2019 she became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

In 2018 Dr Crew was the winner of the Policy Press Outstanding Teaching Award by the Social Policy Association. Alongside this, she was awarded a Bangor University Teaching Fellowship

Her PhD, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, was completed in 2014. The thesis focused on graduate inequalities in relation to class, gender and place.