Ann-Marie Bathmaker is Professor of Vocational and Higher Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nicola Ingram is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK. Jessie Abrahams is a PhD student in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Tony Hoare was Director of Research in Widening Participation, University of Bristol, UK, from 2006 till 2015.Richard Waller is Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education at the University of the West of England, UK. Harriet Bradley is Professor of Women’s Employment at the University of the West of England, UK and Professor Emerita at Bristol University, UK.