Class Acts: A Conversation about being Working Class in College

A conversation event organised by the Trinity Library, Office for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the School of Social Work and Social Policy.

Please register for the event here. 

An open conversation about how universities in 2025 see and engage with class and socioeconomic status.
How do universities in 2025 see and engage with class and socioeconomic status?
What does it mean to come from a working-class background at university today?
And how can class shape experiences within higher education?
At Trinity—an elite institution historically attended by those from more privileged and affluent backgrounds—questions of class and inclusion take on particular significance. This event, Class Acts: A Conversation about Being Working Class in College, invites reflection on how class is understood, experienced, and enacted within university life today.
Co-hosted by the Office for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the School of Social Work and Social Policy, the event aims to foster an open and thoughtful conversation about class and socioeconomic status. Moving beyond class as a purely economic category, the discussion will also explore its cultural, social, and embodied dimensions, and what these mean for the experiences of working-class students, academics, professional and support staff, and those aspiring to attend Trinity.
The Library will be sharing details of its new reading list, "Working Class Voices" at this event.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: sean.adderley@tcd.ie