Alex has an established reputation as a leading voice in national conversations relating to masculinity, education, inequality and access to Higher Education.
Since completing his doctoral research which focused inequality and access to university for white working-class boys in the West Midlands in 2020, he has been a regular speaker at national conferences of the British Sociological Association, British Educational Research Association, Forum for Access and Continuation, and Higher Education Liaison Officers Association, delivering talks, workshops and training with practitioners across the education sector.
In 2023, he founded Boys’ Impact, a UK wide network of educators who are committed to taking an evidence-based approach in closing the gap in educational outcomes for young men who are eligible for Free School Meals.
His primary interests centre around how creative research methods can be mobilised as tools to understand issues related to masculinity and inequality in education. His first monograph, Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men, was published by Policy Press in the summer of 2025.
