The Sutton Trust has looked at how prejudice about accents plays out at university & beyond...
Of course, as accent is not a 'protected characteristic' in legal terms, getting further than people's intuition that their accent has caused discrimination against them is difficult, but the the ST is right to highlight the issue.
Teaching for over decade (before I retired) at an elite (top 10) university, I often heard & saw such prejudices at work.
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