Social class and life chances: What should and can be done to tackle inequality?

The cost-of-living crisis has heightened awareness of class inequality. This session explores the meaning, measurement and experience of inequality in Britain. What should and can be done to reduce inequality?

This session will be led by Dr. Nigel Kettley, Academic Director, University Associate Professor in Education and Social Science, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education; and Director of Studies in Education, Tutor and Fellow, Wolfson College. Nigel has had a wide-ranging teaching and research career in the fields of sociology, education studies, research methods and teacher education. Before joining the Institute of Continuing Education in 2007, he was a Research Associate in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and earlier still an MPhil and PhD student in Sociology and Politics at Wolfson College. He is an active researcher in the areas of widening participation, educational attainment, and lifelong learning more generally with a particular focus on issues of gender, social stratification, theory formation and curriculum design.

Nigel teaches on a variety of courses for the Institute, supervises postgraduate students, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. His published works include Education Attainment and Society (2007) and Theory Building in Educational Research (2012). He is also a Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, a member of the Faculty of Education, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.