Diane Reay is a sociologist and academic, and emeritus professor of education at the University of Cambridge. [1] [2] [3] She is noted for her study about educational inequalities among students in state schools in the United Kingdom. [1] She has maintained that there is a tendency to misuse the school selection practice to transform social class differences into education. [4] She has criticised the Oxbridge application process as "institutionally racist". [5]
Reay's research highlights the challenges that working-class students have in higher education, in particular when accessing and transitioning to and within higher education. [1]
Reay is the daughter of a coal miner and the eldest of eight children. She grew up on a council estate and received free school meals. In an interview, she said, "I learned as a small child I had to work at least twice as hard as the middle-class children to achieve the same result." [1]
She taught in a London primary school for 20 years before she began work at Cambridge, [1] where she is an emeritus professor of sociology of education. [3]
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