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).