Author Sarah Attfield

Sarah Attfield

Sarah is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow in the School of Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her scholarly work is focused on social class in popular culture and literature, particularly the representation of working class life. She has published work on UK grime, dubstep and hardcore punk as well as on working class poetry. She is also a poet and her work has been published widely in Australian literary journals and she has performed her poetry in a variety of venues across Australia. Sarah is the co-founding editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies and a regular contributor to the Working Class Perspectives blog.

You Can’t Eat with Us! When the Working Class Meet High-End Cooking Shows

Sarah Attfield

Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics

Like many reality TV fans, I get caught up in the drama of competitive shows such as MasterChef Australia and more recently, Adriano Zumbo’s Just Desserts. Audiences are given plenty of time over the course...

With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There's a Likely Culprit

Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity

Why We’re in Such a Frenzy About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

The Weight of the Presidency

Green Jobs Could Help To Power The Levelling Up Agenda

Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

Dysphagia and Swallowing Disorders How To Manage Them Later in Life

The Advantages of Gene Editing in Agriculture

The Verdict on Sunbathing

Author Sarah Attfield

Sarah Attfield

You Can’t Eat with Us! When the Working Class Meet High-End Cooking Shows