ABSTRACT
This extended chapter provides an account of widening participation in Australian higher education and a brief but critical account of current equity policies, programs and pathways. An overview is supplied of some of the themes present in research on masculinities in higher education, with a specific focus on working-class masculinities. I also elaborate further on the research study itself and how the research is positioned in relation to other scholarship on the longitudinal study of masculinities as well as studies of masculinities in education. In the latter half, I consider the strategies I employed to build rapport with the participants and the importance of centring student voice. The chapter concludes by considering what can be gained from longitudinal comparative research of upwardly mobile working-class men.
