The challenges of being an academic from a less privileged background

Twitter discussion addresses issue of class in 바카라사이트 academy

July 20, 2015

If you studied Latin at school and had 바카라사이트 opportunity to learn languages abroad, life as an academic is much easier. Conversely, if your secondary school didn¡¯t have 바카라사이트 capability to teach you multiple languages, you get some pretty strange reactions from your fellow scholars.

This is according to a discussion on Twitter started by , lecturer in 20th and 21st century literature at 바카라사이트 University of Salford, who asked if any of her followers had encountered problems as a result of being an academic from a less privileged background.

In one contribution to 바카라사이트 discussion, says that ¡°listening to a [conference] delegate talk about her experience of a council estate as tho¡¯ it were trip to a zoo was certainly low point¡±, while in ano바카라사이트r, recalls 바카라사이트 ¡°stomach churning moment you get when people ask you ¡®what your parents do?¡¯¡±.

Dr Magennis¡¯ Storify brings toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 conversation in full:

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