Northern Ireland is & was comparatively technically "cultured" (see e.g. Kelvin) and I think Jocelyn Bell Burnell is talking more about being a woman than being

Northern Ireland is & was comparatively technically "cultured" (see e.g. Kelvin) and I think Jocelyn Bell Burnell is talking more about being a woman than being from an alien culture. I went to Cambridge (disastrously) from Dublin about 20 years ago, and I for one definitely experienced implicit bias, culture differences that had to be learnt, different presumed levels of academic preparation, etc. Maybe things have improved a bit now. The typical Cambridge student comes from a very privileged, homogenous British background.