DR EMMA TAYLOR

I am a Lecturer in Education at King's Academy, King's College London where I currently lead on the development of an induction programme for all new teaching staff at King’s. I joined King’s from LSE where I held the position of teaching fellow on LSE’s flagship interdisciplinary course for all undergraduate students, LSE100.

Prior to this I was a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar in the department of Sociology at the LSE and she I have a particular interest in the reproduction of inequalities through the education system. My PhD research sought to investigate the micro-practices of elite formation within an independent boys’ school setting in England. Based on in-depth, long-term ethnographic analysis, the research provides a unique insider’s perspective on the conditions that enable and scaffold the formation of elite dispositions among students. Thus, the work uses innovative qualitative methods, such as peer facilitated research, to address key questions relating to the acquisition of such dispositions and how these may have the potential to be converted into powerful symbolic capital, professional success and the consequent perpetuation of the conditions that enable privilege. The work is under advanced contract to be published as a book with Princeton University Press.

I also have fifteen years of experience teaching in secondary schools in the UK where I developed a specific interest in evidence-based pedagogical practice.