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

我建议的博士项目提供了一个向上的社会流动到英国酒吧的混合方法检查，探讨在何种程度上大律师的社会经济背景与收入和专业声望。本研究使用律师理事会通过每年的认证程序收集的群体调查数据，调查社会阶层指标（如父母教育和中学教育）对收入、执业领域和资历的影响。这将与那些已经实现向上流动的人的经验的定性描述以及客户对专门知识所作的评价的话语分析和法律的指南相结合。

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.