Rosa Marvell is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in gender and social class inequalities. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University, working within the Widening Participation Evaluation Team. Prior to this, she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies, specialising in equality issues in post-compulsory education and the labour market in applied social research for UK Government departments, EU Directorates and third sector organisations.