35% of university students feel self-conscious about their accent. 33% of university students are worried their accent could affect their ability to succeed in the future. A whopping 56% of university students from the north of England have had their accent mocked in a social setting.[1]Erez Levon, Devyani Sharma and Christian Ilbury (2022) ‘Speaking up: Accents READ MORE
Author: Lilah Grace Canevaro
Pandemic inequalities
by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Mirko Canevaro The CUCD has recently published Pandemic Stories, a report based on a survey that ran from September 2021 to November 2022. The survey collected experiences of scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world (Classics and Ancient History) in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was aimed at classicists and READ MORE
If Class Were a Protected Characteristic
by Lilah Grace Canevaro, Mirko Canevaro, Henry Stead, Eris Williams-Reed The CUCD Equality and Diversity Report published in 2020 offered a valuable insight into the ‘current state of the discipline’ and has since prompted some productive actions across the UK and beyond. At the outset, the report indicated that its analysis focused on gender and READ MORE