Robin Simmonsis Professor of Education at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests lie in the sociology of education, education policy, and the history of education. Robin has led research funded by leading bodies including the Raymond Williams Foundation, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust. He has written extensively on social class, particularly in relation to young peoples experiences of participation and non-participation in education, employment, and work-based learning. Robin is co-editor ofEducation and Working-Class Youth: Reshaping the Politics of Inclusionpublished by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
Kat Simpsonis Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research interests lie in education and social class, especially pupils and teachers experiences of schooling in former coalmining communities. She has written extensively on differentaspects of deindustrialisation and social haunting. Methodologically, Kat is interested in Marxist ethnography and critical policy analysis. Her bookSocial Haunting, Education and the Working Class: Reimagining Schooling in a Former Mining Communitywas published in 2021.