Julia Snell is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Leeds. Her research explores a range of topics within socio- and applied linguistics, including language variation and identity, language attitudes and ideologies, classroom interaction and dialogic pedagogy, social class and educational inequalities, and teacher professional development. She is author (with Adam Lefstein) of Better than Best Practice: Developing Teaching and Learning through Dialogue, and editor (with Sara Shaw and Fiona Copland) of Linguistic Ethnography: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Her latest research on ‘Spoken Language, Standards and Inequality in Education’ is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.