Valerie Farnsworth is a Research Fellow in 14-19 Education & Training, and a member of the Post-14 Education research group at the University of Leeds. She is the author of ‘Conceptualizing identity, learning and social justice in community-based learning’, Teaching & Teacher Education No.26 (2010), and co-author of Reframing Educational Research: Resisting the ‘what works’ agenda (forthcoming by Routledge). […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Dennis Hayes
Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby, and visiting Professor in the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University. He is co-author of The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (Routledge, 2008), and founder of Academics for Academic Freedom. […]
Andrea Hollomotz
Andrea Hollomotz is a lecturer in Disability & Crime at the University of Leeds. She came to academia from a social work and social care background, and was previously a lecturer in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was on the editorial board for Disability & Society. Andrea is the author of Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability: A Social Approach (Jessica Kingsley, 2011). […]
Bill Carmichael
Bill Carmichael is joint course leader for MA International Public and Political Communication at the University of Sheffield. He joined the department in February 2005 as course leader for the MA web journalism course. He received his first degree and MA in history from King’s College, Cambridge before working as a reporter, industry correspondent, sub editor and news editor on a number of newspapers, culminating with […]
Catherine O’Connor
Catherine O’Connor is Head of Journalism at Leeds Trinity University. She spent 15 years working in the regional media before joining Leeds Trinity as a Senior Lecturer in Journalism in 2007, teaching practical journalism modules, media law and ethics and supervised final year Digital Media Portfolio and Professional Learning Through Work modules, and becoming head of Journalism in 2009. […]
Nick Frost
Nick Frost is Professor of Social Work at Leeds Beckett University. He researches and writes widely in relation to childhood, multi-disciplinary work, children in care, family support and safeguarding. He is an active teacher, researcher, author and consultant. Since 2010 Nick has been the Independent Chair of Bradford Safeguarding Children Board and has been a qualified and registered social worker. He has also acted as […]
Jennie Bristow
Jennie Bristow is senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University and an associate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies. Her research focuses on the sociology of generations, including debates around intergenerational inequality and conflict; education; and parenting culture. She is author of a number of books, most recently Stop Mugging Grandma: The ‘Generation Wars’ And Why Boomer-Blaming Won’t Solve Anything (Yale University Press, […]
Jo Barcroft
Jo Barcroft is a lawyer, and also writes her own food blog. […]
Nick Copland
Nick Copland is a copywriter and verbal identity consultant. He is also co-founder of Leeds-based cheese club Homage2Fromage. […]
Ursula Philpot
Ursula Philpot is senior lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University, and advanced practice dietitian working in the area of eating disorders and obesity. She is the chair of the BDA mental health group. She is active in presenting nationally and internationally on the subject of eating disorders and dietetics and is also the on-screen dietitian for Channel Four’s […]