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2026

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D-Index
78
Citations
30763
World Ranking
427
National Ranking
73

Diane Reay publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diane Reay sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 196 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Diane Reay D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diane Reay sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Diane Reay is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a focus on education, sociology, and political science. Their research spans various topics including global education and multiculturalism, educational policies, educator training, religious education, and social dynamics.

Reay's recent papers include:

  • The working classes and higher education: Meritocratic fallacies of upward mobility in the United Kingdom (2021, European Journal of Education)
  • 'The still-moving position' of the 'working-class' feminist academic: dealing with disloyalty, dislocation and discomfort (2020, Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education)
  • The Perils and Penalties of Meritocracy: Sanctioning Inequalities and Legitimating Prejudice (2020, The Political Quarterly)
  • English Education in the Time of Coronavirus (2020, FORUM)
  • Sociology of education: a personal reflection on politics, power and pragmatism (2020, British Journal of Sociology of Education)

Their frequently cited publication venues reflect a specialization in education and sociological studies. These include:

  • FORUM
  • Subjectivity
  • European Journal of Education
  • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • The Political Quarterly

Co-authors working frequently with Reay are:

  • Annabel Wilson
  • Kirsty Morrin
  • Jessie Abrahams

Reay's main fields of study are social sciences broadly, with specific focus areas in:

  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Gender Studies
  • Music

Key topics of their research include:

  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Religious Education and Schools
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Higher Education Governance and Development

Diane Reay has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • ‘It's all becoming a habitus’: beyond the habitual use of habitus in educational research

    Diane Reay

  • ‘Strangers in Paradise’?: Working-class Students in Elite Universities

    Diane Reay;Gill Crozier;John Clayton

  • Class Work: Mothers' Involvement In Their Children's Primary Schooling

    Diane Reay

  • "Fitting In" or "Standing Out": Working-Class Students in UK Higher Education.

    Diane Reay;Gill Crozier;John Clayton

  • Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process

    Diane Reay;Jacqueline Davies;Miriam David;Stephen J Ball

  • Degrees of choice : class, race, gender and higher education

    Diane Reay;Miriam E. David;Stephen J. Ball

  • 'Classification' and 'Judgement': Social Class and the 'Cognitive Structures' of Choice of Higher Education

    Stephen J. Ball;Jackie Davies;Miriam David;Diane Reay

  • Finding or losing yourself?: working-class relationships to education

    Diane Reay

  • Gendering Bourdieu's concepts of capitals? Emotional capital, women and social class

    Diane Reay

  • Beyond consciousness? The psychic landscape of social class

    Diane Reay

  • ’Always knowing’ and ‘never being sure’: familial and institutional habituses and higher education choice

    Diane Reay

  • A useful extension of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework?: emotional capital as a way of understanding mothers’ involvement in their children’s education?

    Diane Reay

  • Making a Difference?: Institutional Habituses and Higher Education Choice:

    Diane Reay;Miriam David;Stephen Ball

  • THE ZOMBIE STALKING ENGLISH SCHOOLS: SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY

    Diane Reay

  • 'Spice Girls', 'Nice Girls', 'Girlies', and 'Tomboys': Gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom

    Diane Reay

  • ’I’ ll be a nothing’: structure, agency and the construction of identity through assessment

    Diane Reay;Dylan Wiliam

  • Rethinking Social Class: Qualitative Perspectives on Class and Gender

    Diane Reay

  • Degrees of Choice: social class, race and gender in higher education

    Diane Reay;Miriam David;Stephen Ball

  • White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

    Diane Reay;Gill Crozier;David James

  • `A Darker Shade of Pale?' Whiteness, the Middle Classes and Multi-Ethnic Inner City Schooling:

    Diane Reay;Sumi Hollingworth;Katya Williams;Gill Crozier

Frequent Co-Authors

Gill Crozier
Gill Crozier University of Roehampton
Anna Vignoles
Anna Vignoles Leverhulme Trust
Frank J. Kelly
Frank J. Kelly Imperial College London
David A. Leon
David A. Leon London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Simon Burgess
Simon Burgess University of Bristol
Peter Brocklehurst
Peter Brocklehurst University of Birmingham
Hilary Graham
Hilary Graham University of York
Madeleine Arnot
Madeleine Arnot University of Cambridge
Carol Vincent
Carol Vincent University College London
Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller University College London

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