Jon is a part time doctoral researcher at Staffordshire University and whilst situated within the School of Education is exploring issues surrounding widening participation in Higher Education through a Sociological Lens. He completed a MA in Social Science with the Open University in 2012 and more recently a Masters in Education whilst working as a Secondary School Teacher. His interests span many areas of Sociology, notably the Sociology of Education, public sociology, the use of digital and visual research methods and inequalities as broadly defined.