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BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. BERA aims to inform the development of...
Practitioner research and commentary in a networked society
Over the past decade, self-published polemic on education topics has become widely disseminated through a burgeoning culture of social media, and has increasingly challenged the products of...
Ethical Issues and Gaining Ethical Approval
Calling all researchers who work in Further Education and schools, educational publishing and assessment (including educational technology), or outside of HEIs as self-employed independent...
Decoding computer models to advance mechanistic reasoning
Using models to understand how and why a natural phenomenon emerges is a fundamental practice in the sciences. Analysing the underlying components and interactions that generate a phenomenon is...
Upcoming events
Walk and Talk: Exploring My Research Methodologies
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Walking and talking are a healthful, creative and...
A Curriculum for Early Years
This one-day seminar is the third in a series of interactive events comprising the BERA Research Commission 2019 – 2020, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC):...
Ethical Issues and Gaining Ethical Approval
Calling all researchers who work in Further Education and schools, educational publishing and assessment (including educational technology), or outside of HEIs as self-employed independent...
Educational Leadership, Power and Activism (in FE): a reconciliation
The seminar starts from a critical perspective on leadership. In policy terms college principalship and school headship is viewed as the prime location for leadership which is singular in both...
Educational Leadership and Management in the Commonwealth: Making a Difference
The first BERA/CCEAM Annual Lecture. ‘Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham and previously held professorial positions at the universities of...
Early Career Researcher Network
The BERA Early Career Researcher Network aims to offer support for those who are in the process of completing their masters, doctorate or EdD in education, as well as those who have completed...
BERA 2020 Doctoral Thesis Award and Masters Dissertation Award Now Open
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...
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...
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Decoding computer models to advance mechanistic reasoning
Using models to understand how and why a natural phenomenon emerges is a fundamental practice in the sciences. Analysing the underlying components and interactions that generate a phenomenon is...
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Escape from the Skinner box
Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is very much in the public eye, the issue of its use in education has attracted much attention, both good and bad. Within the context of education, one...
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The ethics of using pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems
Recognising that learning is a social activity, intelligent tutoring systems enable learners to engage in (virtual) face-to-face social interactions with autonomous animated software characters,...
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Tackling educational inequality
The questions, ‘What does the empirical evidence tell us about the achievement gap?’ and ‘What is proven good practice for closing the gap in educational inequality?’, are the subject of...
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