Student Success Staff Speaker Series: Social Mobility

Join us for our next session of the 2024/2025 Student Success Staff Speaker Series on social mobility in Higher Education on the 20th November 2024 at 2-3pm

We will be joined by:

Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, Lee Elliot-Major OBE.

Title: Developing an equity approach to social mobility - How can universities level up the education playing field?

In this talk Lee will outline what more universities can do to improve prospects for students from under-resourced backgrounds amid increasing material and cultural divides in society.

Social mobility is both a personal and professional passion for Lee. Having lived independently from the age of 15, he became the first in his family to go to university. He now advises education, corporate and government leaders across the world on how to enable children and people from all socio-economic backgrounds to succeed in life.

Lee previously served as the Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust and was a founding trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation. He played a key role in developing its toolkit of evidence-informed best practices, widely utilised by teachers globally.

An accomplished writer and author, Lee regularly contributes to international and national newspapers and has published several books, including his latest, Equity in Education. His popular 2019 TEDx argues for ‘levelling the playing field of life’. More of Lee’s work can be found below:

Confronting higher education’s class divide

Fixing a broken tongue – Why is the language we use in education important?

Levelling the playing field of learning

Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools

You can sign up here.

Contact email for further information: smss.studentsuccess@ucl.ac.uk