Emma Taylor

Emma Taylor is a Lecturer in Education at King’s College London, specializing in the sociology of education and inequality. She leads King’s staff induction programs and previously held a teaching fellowship at LSE on their interdisciplinary LSE100 course. Her research examines elite formation in British independent schools, using ethnographic methods to analyze how social privilege is perpetuated. She is a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar with a PhD from LSE’s Sociology department.

• Key research themes: reproduction of inequality, elite education systems, symbolic capital
• Co-convenor of BERA Practitioner Research SIG

Her work bridges academia and practice, advocating for evidence-based pedagogy through 15 years of UK secondary teaching experience. A book based on her PhD research is under contract with Princeton University Press.

Recent work examines global expansion of British elite schools as imperial logic reproducers, presented in events like 'Hearts and Minds' (2024).