May 2012

Call for Papers: Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots one year on

Over the past year, academics have brought critical perspectives to bear on the complex causes and consequences of the English riots of 2011. These interventions have unsettled the easy answers offered by politicians and the police. Important questions have been raised about the relationship between the riots and the increasingly hostile conditions of neoliberalism and Coalition policies, including: growing unemployment, rising tuition fees, the withdrawal of the EMA, cuts to Sure Start and an overhaul of welfare provision.

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International Journal of Research & Method in Education: Call for Papers

The International Journal of Research & Method in Education has two active calls for papers for two special editions coming up next year, one on Methodological Issues with the Measurement of Change in Education: The use of Longitudinal Studies and one on The Teaching and Learning of Research Methodology

Please see the documents below for more information.

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EAPRIL 2012 CONFERENCE

28 November - 30 November 2012

JAMK University of Applied Sciences - Jyväskylä, Finland

"Creating competence - Innovations in Learning and Development"

For more information please go to the conference website

 

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SRHE Higher Educational Policy Network meeting

Regional UK Higher Education Policy: What can English HE Policy learn from Scotland & Wales?

Wednesday 13th June 2012, 1-4pm,

London Metropolitan University, Tower Building

166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB, Room TM145

WERA International Research Networks (IRNs) - Call for proposals

Following the success of the first IRN on Global Ethics in Higher Education, WERA would like to establish more IRNs to promote educational research and benefit more active researchers across the world in different research areas. 

For more information please view the document below.

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PhD studentships at the University of Brighton

The University of Brighton’s Doctoral College invites applications from around the world for one of up to 40 new PhD studentships available for entry during the 2012/2013 academic year.

The studentships offer funding to pursue research across a range of topics including education. 

Editorship of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ)

Call for proposals for the period 1st January 2014 – 31st December 2016

1. Introduction

The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is a journal of the British Educational Research Association.  From 2013, it will be published by Wiley-Blackwell and is managed on behalf of the Association by an Editor or Editors, appointed by BERA and supported by an Editorial Board.

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Call for authors for Handbook of Higher Education Admission Policy and Practice

For further information please read the flyer.

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SRHE Digital University Network Event

SRHE Digital University Network Event

“The Written Word”

7 and 8 June 2012

National University of Ireland, Galway 

Convener: Dr Kelly Coate, NUI Galway

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Invitation to join the editorial team of Research Intelligence

Research Intelligence is the academic newsletter of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). It is published three times a year and contains a mix of academic articles, news items and announcements. To look at previous issues of Research Intelligence please click on the following link:

http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/research-intelligence/spring-2012