Coordinator - Nigeria
Pere AYLING
School of Busisness,Social Sciences, Arts and Technology, University of Suffolk
Dr Pere Ayling is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology (BASST). Pere was born in Nigeria and has over 10 years of teaching experience in early years, primary and higher education. Pere is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her area of interest is sociology of education and race, with a focus on the temporal and geographical characteristics of inequality and privilege.
Pere has several publications, all of which are closely linked to her area of interest and specialism and focus on how social class, gender and race, as well as (dis)ability, intersect to (re)produce ‘privilege’ and ‘inequality’ in education and society more broadly. Her most recent publications examined how elite Nigerian parents are attempting to reproduce their class position by choosing to educate their children in ‘white’ British private schools, while another explored the ethical dilemmas involved in researching elites. Her work on Nigerian elites has received national and international attention, leading to speaking engagements at various conferences and symposia and invitations from well-known scholars in the field of social class and elite studies.