Professor Jacqueline Stevenson is Head of Research, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is a sociologist of education with a particular interest in policy and practice relating to equity and diversity in higher education, widening participation, access and student success, pedagogic diversity and the stratification and marketisation of higher education; and is the co-editor of Religion and Higher Education in Europe and North America (Routledge, 2017). Dr Sally Baker is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a sociologist of language and education, whose research interests centre on language and literacies, cultural transitions, educational policy and social justice. She is particularly interested in the interplay between policy, discourse and practices related to equity in higher education, particularly with students from culturally and linguistically diverse background.