Publications

Books

  • Pilgrim-Brown, J.,  Crew, T & Attridge, E. (2025). Working-Class People in UK Higher Education: Precarities, Perspectives and Progress. Emerald Publishing Limited
  • Crew, T. (2020). Higher Education and Working-Class Academics. Precarity and Diversity in Academia. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Book Chapters
– Crew, T. (2026). Gendered experiences of working-class academics: Navigating class and gender in higher education. In A modern guide to education, gender and sexuality (Submitted).
– Crew, T. (2025). Beyond the ivory tower: Transforming academia for working-class people. In Working-class people in UK higher education: Precarities, perspectives and progress (pp. 267–282). Emerald.
– Crew, T. (2024). Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: The experiences of Gypsy Travellers. In L. Gregory & S. Iafrati (Eds.), Diversity and welfare provision: Tension and discrimination in 21st-century Britain. Polity Press.
– Crew, T., & Smith-Mands, J. (2023). Will it ever end? The continuous cycle of inequalities faced by Romani Gypsy, Roma and Traveller populations. In S. Prideaux, M. Sheikh, & A. Formby (Eds.), Crime, criminality and injustice: An interdisciplinary collection of revelations. Anthem Press.
– Crew, T. (2022). Reading the posh newspapers. In I. Burnell Reilly (Ed.), The lives of working-class academics: Getting ideas above your station (pp. 173–186). Emerald.
– Williams, C., & Crew, T. (2021). Advancing equalities and social justice post‑2010. In H. Gwilym & C. Williams (Eds.), Social policy for welfare practice in Wales (3rd ed.). British Association of Social Workers.
– Crew, T. (2018). Appleby Fair for all. In R. Finkel, B. Sharp, & M. Sweeney (Eds.), Accessibility, inclusion and diversity in critical event studies. Routledge.
– Crew, T. (2018). Regional capital and ‘local’ graduate employment. In C. Burke & F. Christie (Eds.), Understanding graduate careers: Research, policy and practice in context. Routledge.

Journal Articles
– Crew, T. (2025). Working-class academics and mental health: Challenges and coping strategies. SN Social Sciences, 5, 1–20. Advance online publication.
– Crew, T. (2025). Exploring student perspectives on universal basic income: Prioritising compassion or conditionality. Basic Income Studies.
– Crew, T. (2024). Working-class academics: Challenging deficit narratives through cultural wealth. Journal of Working-Class Studies, 9(2), 76–91.
– Crew, T. (2024). Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: Insights from working-class academics. British Journal of Sociology of Education. Advance online publication.
– Place, K., Crew, T., & Saville, C. (2024). Bridging the social class gap: Experiences of working-class trainee clinical psychologists. Journal of Class and Culture, 3(2), 185–209.
– Crew, T., & Märtins, T. (2023). Students’ views and experiences of blended learning and employability in a post‑pandemic context. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 8(1), 100583.
– Flynn, D., Crew, T., Hare, R., Maroo, K., & Preator, A. (2023). ‘They burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why’: Stories at the intersection of social class, capital and information literacy—A collaborative autoethnography. Journal of Information Literacy, 17(1), 162–185.
– Crew, T. (2022). Classed markers of a working-class academic identity. Journal of Class and Culture, 1(2), 129–144.
– Crew, T. (2021). Navigating academia as a working-class academic. Journal of Working-Class Studies, 6(2), 50–64.
– Crew, T. (2015). Beyond graduation: The trajectories of graduates in North Wales. People, Place and Policy, 9(1).
– Crew, T. (2008). “If they are dead, tell us!” A criminological study of the disappearances in Kashmir. Internet Journal of Criminology, 1–28.

Reports / Commissioned Research
– Hirst, J. D., Hirst, D., & Crew, T. (2013). Gypsy and traveller accommodation needs assessment. Welsh Government.
– Crew, T. (2008). Equal funded study: Barriers to employment opportunities for BMEs. North Wales Race Equality Network.

Other Scholarly & Professional Outputs
– Crew, T. (2024). A class apart. Diverse Educators.
– Crew, T. (2021). Why is addressing class in higher education important? Transforming Society.
– Crew, T. (2018). Universities must look at local employment markets when building their graduates’ skills. The Conversation.
– Crew, T. (2016). The forgotten half‑widows of Kashmir’s armed conflict. The Conversation.
Crew, T. (2017). “They think I am the secretary”: The trajectories of female graduates in North Wales [Conference paper].
– Crew, T. (2013). Tehmina N. Basit & Sally Tomlinson (Eds.), Social inclusion and higher education (Book review). Sociology, 47(6), 1238–1239.
– Crew, T. (2012). Peter Berger, Adventures of an accidental sociologist (Book review). The Sociological Review.