Key Dates
Friday 6 January Abstract Submission Deadline – BERA Keynote Symposia

Friday 20 January Abstract Submission Deadline – Early Careers Researcher AND Main Conference

Friday 6 April Corresponding Author advised of Outcome of Peer Review Process

Monday 7 May Corresponding Author notified of the time and date of their Presentation at the Conference

Friday 25 May Early bird registration deadline – all presenting authors must be registered by this date otherwise the paper will be withdrawn!

Press releases from the conference are below:

Tuesday 6 September
Children living in rural poverty “fare worse in reading” (file size 76 KB)
Goldilocks perfection or lacking in challenge? One in five pupils say school work “isn’t at all difficult” (file size 68 KB)

Wednesday 7 September
Pupils taught to love grammar get better results (file size 61 KB)
Teachers “falsifying pupils’ marks” under pressure from school management (file size 66 KB)

Thursday 8 September
Many science graduates struggling to find work, despite “shortage” claims (file size 62KB)
Advanced skills teacher grade “works” (file size 63KB)

Insight 1: Violence in Schools: what is really happenning

Insight 2: Social inequality: can schools narrow the gap?

BERA Insights provide an authoritative overview of research findings on topics of current concern in education. They are written by established researchers and edited to provide an accessible account of complex issues. The Insights list key messages from research. They are accompanied by a separate bibliography so that interested readers can follow up studies of particular interest.

Downloads

Insight 1: Violence in UK schools: what is really happening? (pdf file size 496 KB)

Insight 1: Bibliography (pdf file size 214 KB)

By Jane Brown and Mandy Winterton, University of Edinburgh

Insight 2: Social inequality: can schools narrow the gap? (pdf file size 423 KB)

Insight 2: Bibliography (pdf file size 204 KB)

Edited by Kirstin Kerr and Mel West, University of Manchester

Media coverage

TES Scotland

BBC Online

egov monitor

Southampton News

Brighton News

Childhood and education blogspot

Action on Access

Manchester Wired

Voice union

Cambridge Journals – social policy digest

Download the press release here

BERA President, John Gardner,

“BERA is delighted to continue the legacy of Becta’s support for research, innovation and good practice in educational technology through the internationally renowned BJET. This new partnership with Wiley-Blackwell will help us to realize our shared objective of bringing educational research to the widest possible audience. We look forward to maintaining BJET’s reputation for reporting top quality educational technology research from innovative learning settings all over the world.”

Becta Executive Director for Strategy and Communications, Tony Richardson,

“Becta is pleased that the internationally recognised and respected research on technology-enabled learning, teaching and management that has been published in BJET, will continue to be shared. It is important that our charitable objects continue to be met after our closure and this includes realising benefits to the education sector from all aspects of our work. Our work with the research community and BJET’s role in this has been a vital and very successful part of the benefits we offered to the sector. We are confident that BERA and Wiley-Blackwell will take the journal forward successfully into its next phase.”

Nick Rushby, BJET Editor,

“I believe that there is considerable potential synergy between BJET and BERA’s other publications. This provides an opportunity to build important links between the communities engaged in learning technology and those whose focus is on educational research. The BJET international editorial team is looking forward to working with BERA on a number of challenging projects, including making research more accessible to practitioners in this field.”

Philip Carpenter, Vice-President and Managing Director for Social Sciences and Humanities at Wiley-Blackwell,

“We are delighted to be partnering with the British Educational Research Association to publish the British Journal of Educational Technology. We look forward to working with the Association to ensure that BJET continues to publish world-leading research while also finding new ways to engage with the practitioner community in the UK and beyond.”

Starting in 2011, BERA and Wiley-Blackwell will be collaborating on an important and wide-ranging project aiming to make the research published in BJET and other academic journals more accessible and useful for practitioners of all types, while not compromising the quality of the material published.

About BJET

The British Journal of Educational Technology BJET is a primary source for academics and professionals in learning technology and provides readers with coverage of developments in international educational and training technology.

Articles cover the whole range of education and training, concentrating on the theory, applications and development of learning technology and communications. There is a particular interest in the application of new information and communications technologies. The Colloquium section publishes shorter contributions, summarising work in progress, raising queries and questioning received wisdom.

BJET currently has an Impact Factor of 1.255 (ranking it 32/139 in Education & Educational Research). Under the editorial leadership of Nick Rushby the Journal publishes some of the very best papers in the world on the applications and development of learning technology in education and training. The Journal works actively to make its research accessible to practitioners, thereby seeking to have significant impact for learners in the real world.

About Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit www.wileyblackwell.com or our new online platform, Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities. Wiley has published BJET on behalf of Becta since 1997.

• Professor Mary James, BERA Vice President and Associate Director of Research, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
• Professor Andrew Pollard, Director of ESCalate Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education and former member of BERA Executive Council
• Emeritus Professor Professor Dylan William, Former Deputy Director, Institute of Education, University of London
• Tim Oates, Director of Assessment, Research and Development at Cambridge Assessment

Tim Oates will lead  the Expert Panel on secondment from his position at Cambridge Assessment. Further information on members of the Expert Panel is available here

What will the Expert Panel do?

The expert panel will lead on the construction and content of the new National Curriculum. The panel will develop a robust evidence base to inform the drafting of new programmes of study, and build a detailed framework for the National Curriculum taking account of the requirements set by the highest performing international jurisdictions. It will also reflect the views of teachers, subject communities, academics, employers, higher education institutions and other interested parties.

Further information

Further information on the Review is available here

Terms of Reference for the Expert Panel are available here

Further information on members of the Expert Panel is available here

A call for evidence is available here

Until September this year Professor Pollard was a member of BERA Executive Council and his breadth of experience and expertise is well known across the field. On behalf of BERA he has been Chair of the Strategic Forum for Research in Education (www.sfre.ac.uk) and was Director of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme from 2002-09 (www.tlrp.org). Professor Pollard has also recently been appointed as Director of ESCalate Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education (www.escalate.ac.uk).

For information on the Research Excellence Framework see www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/

Visit Conference press 2010 for details.

Professor John Gardner

Professor Louise Morley

Tom Schuller

Professor Ann Phoenix

The report is presented as a whole but was undertaken as two separate pieces of work. The main report is an analysis of the RAE 2008, and its impact on educational research in the UK, carried out by colleagues at the University of Oxford.

This is supported by a more detailed analysis of the financial impacts of the RAE, carried out by colleagues at the Institute of Education, London.

The report as a whole therefore provides a significant analysis of the impacts of the RAE 2008 on educational research in its different aspects, from the experiences of individual researchers to departmental and institutional effects and the financial implications of the funding allocations of the RAE.

Download the full report as a PDF:
BERA / UCET Review of the Impacts of RAE 2008 on Education Research in UK Higher Education Institutions

Click on the following to watch the interviewees:

Pamela Munn, President of BERA (2007 – 2009)

Ben Levin, Routledge Lecture

Felice Levine, Executive Director of American Educational Research Association

Ann Lieberman, emeritus professor from Teachers’ College, Columbia University