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The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone...
Ethnicity and the Early Years Workforce in Maintained Nursery Schools across England
In this webinar, we presented findings from the BERA-funded project ‘Ethnicity and the Early Years Workforce: A Census of Maintained Nursery Schools in England’. The project has examined how...
Tensions in scaling up effective professional development: Balancing programme integrity and school adaptation
Decades of research have sought to unpack the challenges of balancing programme integrity and school adaptation when taking educational interventions to scale. Professor emeritus Larry Cuban from...
Education for Environmental Sustainability
The new Education for Environmental Sustainability (EfES) SIG aims to encourage and support research and scholarship focused on EfES.
BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award
The BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award recognises and celebrates the impact of research and practice in the education community and how both have demonstrably engaged the public.
BERA Governance Opportunities
We will be opening calls for applications to two key roles in the Association in Autumn 2022, the BERA President and the BERA Treasurer. At this time we also have an opportunity for members to...
Upcoming events
BERA Conference 2022
BERA 2022 Welcome A Welcome from Professor Mhairi C Beaton, Conference and Events Committee Chair As I begin to write this welcome text to our 2022 BERA Annual Conference, my thoughts have...
Journal Peer Review: The Case of an Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics Journal
Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers often struggle to navigate journal peer review (here are two BERA ECR Network podcasts (1)/(2) on the topic) because it is not a skillset that is...
The Voice of Ukrainian Educational Research Association across Borders or is there Educational Solidarity during Russian-Ukrainian War?
In this webinar we will hear from a panel of Ukrainian academics who will discuss their current work amidst the current war crisis with Russia. The platform is one to engage in support for...
EMC Masterclass – How to blog about your research
Run by the Education Media Centre this highly interactive small group online training session is aimed at early career researchers who want their work to reach non-academic audiences. Participants...
Summer 2022
Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...
Early Career Researcher Network
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those who are in the process of completing their masters or doctorate in education, as well as those who have completed...
Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition (2018)
This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the...
Digital Resources
The new BERA Digital Resources page for members features videos and presentations from BERA events, as well as podcasts and more.
The latest from the BERA Blog
Tensions in scaling up effective professional development: Balancing programme integrity and school adaptation
Decades of research have sought to unpack the challenges of balancing programme integrity and school adaptation when taking educational interventions to scale. Professor emeritus Larry Cuban from...
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SEND: Looking through an intersectionality lens
This blog post explores the concepts of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and intersectionality, and highlights the importance of having an awareness of how these are linked. I...
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Editorial: Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice
On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...
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Hopes for the future: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session B
As chair of parallel session B for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, it was my pleasure to introduce the speakers and to field questions from the audience. In addition to the other...
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