This week sees the publication of The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism and follows on from two previous Red Papers (1975 The Red Paper on Scotland; 2006 The Red Paper 30 years on).

This has already gained some advanced publicity in the Glasgow Herald

As the numbers of working-class students at university grow, we need to gain a better understanding of the different ways in which they consolidate their working-class habitus with the middle-class culture of the academic field. Drawing on data from a four-year longitudinal, qualitative study of working-class students at a large, research-intensive Canadian university, the seminar will focus on the experiences of those participants who fully embraced, became integrated and achieved academic success at university.