torontowebdev

Well that was easy… some more googling and this query works:

$args  = array(
	  'fields' => 'all_with_meta',
	  'meta_query' => array(
		array(
		'key' => '1_area_of_acad_res',
		'value' => 'My value in here',
		'compare' => 'LIKE'
		)
	));

Phew!