Dr Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy. She published a book in 2020 with Palgrave Macmillan called Higher Education and Working-Class Academics. Precarity and Diversity in Academia. 

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

• SXP2050 and SXP3050 Social Issues is an applied Social Policy undergraduate module which focuses on social problems. 
• SXS3040 Gender Perspectives is a third year undergraduate module which discusses the historical, social and individual significance of gender.
• SXY4015 Tackling Inequality and Injustice, a MA module that focuses on tackling social problems.
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate work placement modules

• Wrote and taught HPS4003 Revolting Subjects is a postgraduate module based on Professor Imogen Tyler’s book Revolting Creatures: Social Abjection and Restistance in Neoliberal Britain

She has presented at conferences in relation to her teaching and research

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.

Crew, T. (2018). The Cultural Capital of the Atypical Academic. BSA Annual Conference. Northumbria. University, 10-12 April 2018

Crew, T. (2017). They think I am the secretary’: The trajectories of female graduates in North Wales.  BSA Early Career Forum Event.  The precariatisation of Women's Lives in the UK.  Friday 30th June 2017. Sheffield Hallam University

Crew, T. (2017). Regional capital and 'local' graduate employment. CELT Learning and Teaching Conference 2017. Friday 15th September 2017.

Crew, T. (2017). Asking the same old questions, but nothing gets done!!! Observations from conducting research ‘with’ and ‘for’ Gypsy Travellers in north Wales.  Regarding Children and Young People in the 21st Century - Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom.  28 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

Crew, T. (2015). How to develop student’s employability skills through research methods and social policy. Paper presented at the Higher Education Academy's Annual Social Sciences Conference 2015. 3-4 December 2015, The Studio, Manchester.

2021

• PublishedAdvancing Equalities and Social Justice Post 2010
  Williams, C. & Crew, T., 16 Mar 2021, Social Policy for Welfare Practice in Wales. Gwilym, H. & Williams, C. (eds.). 3rd ed. The British Association of Social Workers.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedNavigating Academia as a Working-Class Academic
  Crew, T., 25 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Working-Class Studies. 6, 2, p. 50-64 14 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedWhy is addressing class in higher education important?
  Crew, T., 31 Aug 2021, Transforming Society.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2020

• PublishedHigher Education and Working-Class Academics: Precarity and Diversity in Academia
  Crew, T., 10 Dec 2020, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing. 147 p. (Palgrave Pivot Series)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2018

• PublishedAppleby Fair For All
  Crew, T., 23 Oct 2018, Accessibility, Inclusion and Diversity in Critical Event Studies. Finkel, R., Sharp, B. & Sweeney, M. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Advances in Event Research).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedRegional capital and 'local' graduate employment
  Crew, T., 26 Jul 2018, Understanding Graduate Careers : Research, Policy and Practice in Context. Burke, C. & Christie, F. (eds.). Routledge
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedThe Cultural Capital of the Atypical Academic
  Crew, T., Apr 2018.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• UnpublishedThe Cultural Capital of the Atypical Academic
  Crew, T., 2018, (Unpublished) Borders & Boundaries 2018: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• PublishedUniversities must look at local employment markets when building their graduates’ skills
  Crew, T., 4 Oct 2018, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2017

• PublishedAsking the same old questions, but nothing gets done!!! Observations from conducting research ‘with’ and ‘for’ Gypsy Travellers in north Wales
  Crew, T., Jun 2017.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• Published‘They think I am the secretary’: The trajectories of female graduates in North Wales
  Crew, T., 2017.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2016

• PublishedThe forgotten half-widows of Kashmir’s armed conflict
  Crew, T., 4 Aug 2016, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2015

• PublishedBeyond graduation: The trajectories of graduaties in North Wales
  Crew, T., 23 Apr 2015, In: People, Place, and Policy. 9, 1
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedHow to develop student’s employability skills through research methods and social policy
  Crew, T., 2015.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2014

• PublishedAccommodation Needs Assessments in Practice. Gypsies and Travellers: Preparing for the New Duty.
  Crew, T., 2014.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2013

• PublishedGypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessment
  Hirst, J. D., Hirst, D. & Crew, T., 1 Feb 2013, Welsh Government.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• PublishedTehmina N. Basit and Sally Tomlinson (eds), Social Inclusion and Higher Education. Sociology
  Crew, T., 2013, Sociology, 47, 6, p. 1238-1239.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

2012

• PublishedBeyond Graduation: regional capital.
  Crew, T., 2012.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedPeter, Berger. Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
  Crew, T., 2012, Sociological Review.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

2008

• PublishedEqual Funded Study: Barriers to employment opportunities for BMEs
  Crew, T., 2008, North Wales Race Equality Network.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published“If They Are Dead, Tell Us!” A Criminological Study of the “Disappearances” in Kashmir
  Crew, T., 1 Jan 2008, In: Internet Journal of Criminology. p. 1-28
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• 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

  Links:

  • https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/05-prejudice-being-normal-and-social-status-in-stem/id1576353462?i=1000537167516
  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

Activities

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

Member of Social Policy Association

Member of British Sociological Association (BSA)

Member of BSA Bourdieu Group 

Member of Feminist and Women's Studies Association (FWSA)

Board member for the North Wales Regional Equality Network.