Dr Teresa Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy with research interests spanning issues of social inequality, higher education, and policy. More specifically Dr. Crew's research explores the barriers faced by working class people and other disadvantaged groups in society and education. She is the author of various articles and two books

- The Intersections of a Working Class Academic Identity. A Class Apart. *Thanks to funding from Knowledge Unlatched this ebook is open access, and freely available to download https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93383

- Higher Education and Working-Class Academics: Precarity and Diversity in Academia

Teresa is also currently co-editing a handbook about class and culture and also  co-editing a book on working class people in higher education.

She has also conducted research into graduate employment and regional labour markets, as well as the exclusion and discrimination experienced by Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.

Dr. Crew's research typically employs qualitative methodologies including semi structured interviews, focus groups, ethnography and autoethnography. 

In 2019 she became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

In 2018 Dr Crew was the winner of the Policy Press Outstanding Teaching Award by the Social Policy Association. Alongside this, she was awarded a Bangor University Teaching Fellowship

Her PhD, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, was completed in 2014. The thesis focused on graduate inequalities in relation to class, gender and place.

Name: Teresa Crew 

Position: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy 

Email: t.f.crew@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 382838     

Location: Room M9, Main Arts

  • PhD: Sociology
    School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, 2014
  • MA: Social Research and Social Policy
    School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, 2008
  • BA: Criminology and Criminal Justice
    School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, 2006

Dr Crew is the conveyor of a number of modules in the School

  • SXS2097 Gender Perspectives is a second year undergraduate module which discusses the historical, social and individual significance of gender.
  • SXU1006. Social Divisions is a first year moduke that looks at aspects of our identity and how they influence our experiences of health, education, employment, crime and housing.
  • SXP3050 & SXY4015 Tackling Inequalities 1& 2, two modules that focus on tackling social problems.

Teresa has previously taught 

  • Undergraduate and Postgraduate work placement modules
  • Wrote and taught HPS4003 Revolting Subjects, a postgraduate module based on Professor Imogen Tyler’s book Revolting Creatures: Social Abjection and Restistance in Neoliberal Britain
  • a year one research methods module 

She has presented at conferences in relation to her teaching and research, for instance:

Crew, T. (2020). Working class academic capital.  Working Class Academics conference, 14 and 15th July 2020

Crew, T. (2019). "I can't last much longer on pittance”. A classed understanding of precarity. Precarious Work & Gender Inequality in Higher Education: Researching for Change – University College Cork, 16th May 2019.

I am interested in developing research proposals in the broad areas of: - Working Class Academics and or research on Working Class people in professional employment. - Trajectories into and beyond higher education; - Diversity in academia, as well as; - Inequalities - with a specific focus on Social Class and/or Disability.

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  • PublishedClassed markers of a working-class academic identity.
    Crew, T., 1 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Class and Culture. 1, 2, p. 129-144
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedReading the posh newspapers
    Crew, T., 12 Dec 2022, The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting ideas above your station. . Burnell Reilly, I. (ed.). Emerald, p. 173-186
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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  • Prejudice, Being Normal, and Social Status in STEM with Teresa Crew

    In the fifth episode of Little Science Talks Season 1, Heidi Gardner and her co-host Anna Kebke are joined by Teresa Crew, a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Bangor in North West Wales. Teresa joins us to talk about her research with working class academics, and how working class academics specifically working in STEM subjects present and experience the academy. Teresa is a proud working class academic herself, and has been told multiple times that people like being taught by her because she's 'normal'. At first, she thought this may be a gender thing, but after speaking to some male working class academics, it became clear that they were getting this type of feedback too - it wasn't a gender thing, it was a class thing. Her research delved further into experiences of working class academics, and unfortunately it wasn't all positive - people being judged based on the car they pulled up to work in, academics judging members of the public because of the number of toys visible in their homes, and more. This focus on deficits was rife, and Teresa steers away from any sort of negativity as she pushes through these experiences to find the golden nuggets - the wonderful contributions that working class academics make to university life. We hope that this episode helps to show people that academia is not just for the tweed-clad middle and upper classes that history would have us believe. Teresa is a powerhouse and an inspiration to all, not just people that identify as working class.

    30 Sep 2021

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    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

Activities

A member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Class and Culture

Worked on a British Sociological Association task and finish group to create an Applied Sociology curriculum

Member of British Sociological Association (BSA)