Experts

Alex has an established reputation as a leading voice in national conversations relating to masculinity, education, inequality and access to Higher Education. Since completing his doctoral research which focused inequality and access to university for white working-class boys in the West Midlands in 2020, he has been a regular speaker at national conferences of the British Sociological Association, British Educational Research Association, Forum for Access and Continuation, and Higher Education

Ruth is the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. She was previously Director of fiscal policy at HM Treasury (HMT) where she worked for over 15 years. Her career has focused on domestic economic policy including labour markets, tax, fiscal policy and financial regulation. Ruth has held a wide range of roles in HMT, including working in the Chancellor’s private office, supporting the Independent Commission on Banking, and leading the Treasury’s distributional analysis.

Jay Dwyer-Joyce is a PhD researcher at University College London, where their work focuses on trust in digital systems. Their research examines the Post Office Horizon case as a critical example of how large-scale technical systems can fail and the profound consequences of misplaced trust in technology. They are particularly interested in how digital systems can be designed to generate clear, verifiable evidence of their own reliability. Through this work, they aim to inform better system design,

Richard Gater is a researcher at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University, and author of The 21st Century Lads: Continuity and Changes among Marginalised Young Men from the South Wales Valleys. His research interests include masculinities, gender, education, employment, social class, and health and well-being.

Sixtine is currently finishing a Master in Public Administration at the London School of Economics. She holds a double BA in Political Economy from Sciences Po/UC Berkeley. She will be pursuing research work on education policies in France.

Director of the Brunel Centre