Diane Reay is a sociologist and academic, who is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge.
[1][2][3] She is noted for her study about educational inequalities among students in state schools in the United Kingdom.
[1] She has maintained that there is a tendency to misuse the school selection practice to transform social class differences into education.
In an interview, she said, "I learned as a small child I had to work at least twice as hard as the middle-class children to achieve the same result.
"[1] She taught in a London primary school for 20 years before she began work at Cambridge,[1] where she is currently an emeritus professor of sociology of education.