#Mypathtolaw: understanding access to the legal profession through a ricoeurian analysis

Figures & data

Table 1. Social, economic, ethnic, regional and educational contexts referenced in #mypathtolaw (total count = 650).

Birth Family social/cultural/ regional context	Count	Educational experiences	Count
Socio-economic status	51	State school (including comprehensive, local school etc)	216
Working class	22	Grammar school	8
Council estate	35	Private school	20
Farming background	12	Any mentioning of first generation	153
Northern background	16	First generation A-levels	7
London	5	First generation university	124
UK devolved regions (Scotland, Wales)	8	First lawyer in family	16
Irish*not NI/Republic differentiate	12	University provider	193
Gender (woman)	2	Filex Route No university	14 (cilex 46)
Immigration background	26	Oxbridge	28
Refugee	4	Non – Oxbridge	5
Black	1	Former polytecnic	12
Religion	1 (Jewish)	Open university/distance learning	13
		Degree class	30
Further individual birth aspects of birth family context		Late starter to university	21
Single parent family	34	Dropped out of uni	9
Care leaver	5	Left school early	40
Large family	5
Parental bereavement	22
Divorce	6	Non-Russell group	2
Parental illness	6	Russell group	2

Table 2. Adult-life events, financial consideration and influencers mentioned in #mypathtolaw (total count = 650).

Financial consideration	Count	Influencer (events)	Count
Loans	3	Injustice	25
Grants	33	Repossession	1
Scholarship	56	Work experience (women’s shelter/NHS rape crisis)	3
Windfall (Gameshow, inheritance)	4	Work experience (legal) unpaid	89 6
Working while studying	156	Work paralegal	70
Self-funded	16
No tuition fees	3	Luck	23
personal life history and events		Influencers (People & organisations)
Married Young	11	Teachers (school)	21
Abuse	3	Tutors/lecturers (HE)	5
		Family	64
Divorce	8	Friends	12
Young children	45	Career advisors	49
Single-parent	17	Boss	5
		Legal firms	64