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Publications: DR Louise Ashley

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Ashley L ( 2025 ) . What’s the Difference? Market vs State Alignment in the Professional Consequences of Diversity . Professions and Professionalism vol. 15 , ( 3 )
Ashley L, Sommerlad H ( 2025 ) . Diamonds in the Rough: How Social Class Difference is (De)Valued in Elite Accountancy Firms . Work Employment and Society
Mountford‐Zimdars A, Ashley L, Worth E, Playford CJ ( 2025 ) . Ambivalent Agents: The Social Mobility Industry and Civil Society Under Neoliberalism in England . British Journal of Sociology vol. 76 , ( 5 ) 1158 - 1168 .
Ashley L ( 2025 ) . It's getting critical! Can generating impact allow a more radical approach? . How to Scale Engagement and Impact in Universities , Edward Elgar Publishing
Ashley L ( 2024 ) . The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat . Sociology of Health & Illness vol. 47 , ( 2 )
Ashley L, Wookey S ( 2024 ) . Directing change? Reflections on participatory programmes and inclusive theatres cultures . Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance vol. ahead-of-print , ( ahead-of-print ) 1 - 19 .
Ashley L, McDonald I ( 2024 ) . When the Penny Drops: Understanding how social class influences speciality careers in the UK medical profession . Social Science & Medicine vol. 348 ,
Ashley L, Boussebaa M, Friedman S, Harrington B, Heusinkveld S, Gustafsson S, Muzio D ( 2022 ) . Professions and inequality: Challenges, controversies, and opportunities . Journal of Professions and Organization vol. 10 , ( 1 ) 80 - 98 .
Ashley L ( 2022 ) . Highly Discriminating . Bristol University Press
Ashley L ( 2021 ) . Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control . Work Employment and Society vol. 36 , ( 3 ) 427 - 444 .
( 2018 ) . Professions and Professional Service Firms . Taylor & Francis
Ashley L, Empson L ( 2016 ) . Explaining social exclusion and the ‘war for talent’ in the UK’s elite professional service firms . Diversity in Practice , Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Ashley L, Empson L ( 2016 ) . Convenient fictions and inconvenient truths: Dilemmas of diversity at three leading accountancy firms . Critical Perspectives on Accounting vol. 35 , 76 - 87 .
Ashley L, Empson L ( 2016 ) . Understanding social exclusion in elite professional service firms: field level dynamics and the ‘professional project’ . Work Employment and Society vol. 31 , ( 2 ) 211 - 229 .
Ashley L, Empson L ( 2012 ) . Differentiation and discrimination: Understanding social class and social exclusion in leading law firms . Human Relations vol. 66 , ( 2 ) 219 - 244 .
Ashley L ( 2011 ) . Making a difference? The use (and abuse) of diversity management at the UK’s elite law firms . Work Employment and Society vol. 24 , ( 4 ) 711 - 727 .
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