Dr Nicola Ingram
British Sociological Association Study Groups
Nicola co-convenes:
Profile
Nicola joined the department in 2012 having previously worked as a researcher at the University of Bristol. Prior to this she did a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, before which she spent a number of years teaching in post-primary schools.
Her PhD thesis considered the ways in which working-class teenage boys in two post-primary schools in Belfast (ir)reconcile educational success with their sense of identity. This project developed the use of innovative visual methods in order to sensitively engage the young men in talking about themselves. For this work she was awarded the British Educational Research Association’s 2011 dissertation prize.
Research interests
Nicola’s research focuses on social class, masculinity and education.
Theoretically, her research uses a Bourdieuian perspective that considers the internalisation of multiple (and at times conflicting) structural influences in the development of young people’s schemes of perception.
- Social class
- Post Primary Education
- Higher Education
- Masculinity
- Youth Identities
- Bourdieu
Current Projects
- Investigation of class and gender inequality in young people's educational decision-making, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme.
- 2010-2013 Research Associate on the Paired Peers Project, funded by Leverhulme (at the University of Bristol). This is a study of working-class and middle-class students’ experiences of the two universities in Bristol.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- SP10044: Introductory Sociology B: Thinkers, Theories and Perspectives
- SP30118: Theoretical Issues II: Subjectivities and Identities
Postgraduate
Publications
Book Sections
Bradley, H. and Ingram, N., 2012. Banking on the future: choices, aspirations and economic hardship in working-class student experience. In: Atkinson, W., Roberts, S. and Savage, M., eds. Class inequalities in austerity Britain: power, difference and suffering. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51-69.
Articles
Burke, C. T., Emmerich, N. and Ingram, N., 2013. Well-founded social fictions : a defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 34 (2), pp. 165-182.
Mellor, J., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J. and Beedell, P., 2013. Forthcoming. Class matters in the interview setting? Positionality, situatedness and class. British Educational Research Journal
Devine, D., Savage, M. and Ingram, N., 2012. White middle class identities and urban schooling. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33 (2), pp. 303-314.
Ingram, N., 2011. Within school and beyond the gate: the complexities of being educationally successful and working class. Sociology-the Journal of the British Sociological Association, 45 (2), pp. 287-302.
Ingram, N., 2010. School culture and its impact on working-class boys. Sociology Review, 20, pp. 2-6.
Ingram, N., 2009. Working-class boys, educational success and the misrecognition of working-class culture. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30 (4), pp. 421-434.
Conference or Workshop Items
Ingram, N., Abrahams, J. and Beedell, P., 2012. 'Students' engagement in extra-curricular activities : constraints, freedoms and class background. In: British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2012: Sociology in an Age of Austerity, 2012-04-11 - 2012-04-13, Leeds.
Ingram, N., 2012. Aspiring and realising : higher education, social class and career pathways. In: British Sociological Association PG Conference, 2012-03-20 - 2012-03-21, London.
Ingram, N., 2012. Gaining an advantage through education? : social class and student experiences of higher education at an elite and non-elite university in one UK city. In: How Class Works Conference State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook, 2012-06-06 - 2012-06-09, New York.
Ingram, N. and Bathmaker, A.-M., 2012. Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capital. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2012, 2012-09-04 - 2012-09-06, Manchester.
Abrahams, J. and Ingram, N., 2012. There's no place like home : local university students' perceptions of the benefits of living at home. In: British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2012: Sociology in an Age of Austerity, 2012-04-11 - 2012-04-13, Leeds.
Bradley, H., Ingram, N. and Abrahams, J., 2011. Gateways to success? : the influence of class on transitions into higher education. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2011, 2011-09-06 - 2011-09-08, London.
Hoare, T., Ingram, N. and Mellor, J., 2010. The university's widening participation research cluster : whatever is it up to now? In: University of Bristol Human Geography Seminar Series, 2010-11-16 - 2010-11-16, Bristol.
