Name: Teresa Crew 

Position: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy 

Email: t.f.crew@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 382838     

Location: Room M9, Main Arts

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.

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.

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)