Laura Hood

Nov 4, 2024 | socialsciencespace.com | Laura Hood |Spencer Kimball |Camille Mumford |Matt Taglia

November 4, 2024 10 As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she currently wears as postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences at the University of Oxford) she have been proscribed from doing – posing as a recruit to study violent extremist groups. That, as you might expect, gave her special insight into how these groups attract new blood, and on the basis of that work, as...

Oct 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Rosie Campbell |Vladimir Bortun

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately educated, a record low in almost 50 years of monitoring. Several cabinet ministers come from working-class backgrounds, including the prime minister, deputy prime minister and foreign secretary.

Oct 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Rosie Campbell |Vladimir Bortun

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately educated, a record low in almost 50 years of monitoring. Several cabinet ministers come from working-class backgrounds, including the prime minister, deputy prime minister and foreign secretary.

Oct 25, 2024 | socialsciencespace.com | Laura Hood |Spencer Kimball |Camille Mumford |Matt Taglia

October 25, 2024 21 Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of living in a post-class era but, in reality, our backgrounds affect our life chances and even just the way we interact with each other.

Oct 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Daniel Evans |Gillian Prior |John Curtice |Oliver Heath |Paula Surridge | +1 more

Social class continues to influence British people’s opportunities and the way they think about them, even if the boundaries between those classes have shifted. In the third part of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, a podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries, we explore how class is defined and measured, and how the UK’s changing class identity interacts with identity politics.