Teresa Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bangor University, Wales, researching social class inequalities in higher education. A working-class student and now academic herself, she combines scholarly analysis with a commitment to challenging deficit narratives about working-class people in academia and beyond.
Deirdre O'Neill is a working-class academic and filmmaker.She is the co-ordinator of Inside Film and the principal editor of the Intellect Journal of Class and Culture.