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  • Mat Haine – Success for whom? The class gaps in student outcomes

    As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading

    Mat Haine – Success for whom? The class gaps in student outcomes
  • Jacqui Turner – what does it mean to be working class?

    As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading

    Jacqui Turner – what does it mean to be working class?
  • Brooke Harding on the workings of becoming a first-generation student 

    As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading

    Brooke Harding on the workings of becoming a first-generation student 
  • David Stack on Going to University 

    As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading.  Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading

    David Stack on Going to University 
  • Britain’s Atomic Bombs: Operation Grapple

    In light of recent news coverage, our MA student, Hannah Grimshaw, reflects on her grandfather’s experiences of atomic testing on Christmas Island. Operation Grapple was a series of nine British hydrogen and atomic bomb tests that took place on Christmas… Continue reading

    Britain’s Atomic Bombs: Operation Grapple