A Bar of all and for all? Examining the financial and professional impacts of upward social mobility at the independent Bar.

我提议的博士项目提供了一项关于进入英国律师行业的向上社会流动的混合方法考试，探索律师的社会经济背景与收入和职业声望之间的关联程度。这项研究将利用执委会通过大律师必须提交的年度认证程序收集的小组调查数据，调查父母教育程度和中学教育程度等社会阶层指标对收入、执业范围和资历的影响。这将与那些实现向上流动的人的经历的定性描述以及对客户对专业知识的评价并在法律目录上发布的话语分析进行三角划分。

My proposed doctoral project offers a mixed-methods examination of upward social mobility into the English Bar, exploring the extent to which barristers' socio-economic background is associated with income and professional prestige. Using group-level survey data held by the Bar Council collected through the annual certification process to which barristers must submit, this study will investigate the impact of indicators of social class, such as parental education and secondary school attended, on income, practice area, and seniority. This will be triangulated with qualitative accounts of the experiences of those who have achieved upward mobility, and with discourse analysis of evaluations of expertise made by clients and published in legal directories.