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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...
Digital Resources
The new BERA Digital Resources page for members features videos and presentations from BERA events, as well as podcasts and more.
‘The significant return to normality’: Back to school in England, but who is missing?
As part of the gradual lifting of lockdown measures in England, following the ‘second wave’ of the Covid-19 pandemic here, schools reopen wholesale today, 8 March 2021. For many parents and...
BERA to fund new commission on Education for Environmental Sustainability
We are delighted to announce that following a highly competitive process, BERA will be supporting a new research commission that aims to create a teacher and youth co-created manifesto for...
2021 Doctoral Thesis Award Winners
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and methodological...
Registration fees and bursaries
BERA Conference 2021 is 13 September 2021 to 16 September 2021. Apply now for conference bursaries. Available for Students, Teachers, Practitioners and Independent Researchers. Deadline 19th...
Upcoming events
Practitioner Research SIG Annual Meeting
Join the Practitioner Research SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021 This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...
BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research – March
The theme for 2021 is ‘Overcoming challenges in educational research’ Discussant: Dr Dina Belluigi, Queen's University Belfast Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is targeted...
SIG Forum meeting – Philosophy of Education
Join the Philosophy of Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021 This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...
Building a Curriculum for a Sustainable Future
#BERA_Sustainability There is no time like the present to look at our world as it is. This important truth has been brought home to us by Covid-19. Plastic, food and water waste on the one hand:...
COVID-19
BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...
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...
The Review of Education Early Career Researchers Award 2021
This year Review of Education is seeking applications for two awards, each worth £2,500, from early career researchers in education. The awards will assist those at a relatively early stage of...
The latest from the BERA Blog
‘The significant return to normality’: Back to school in England, but who is missing?
As part of the gradual lifting of lockdown measures in England, following the ‘second wave’ of the Covid-19 pandemic here, schools reopen wholesale today, 8 March 2021. For many parents and...
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A (very) inconvenient truth?
At the beginning of January the prime minister claimed that reopening schools was safe and that the benefits of children being in school were ‘huge’ (BBC News, 2021). While educational...
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Is education a discipline?
In the most recent issue of Research Intelligence (#145), BERA president Dominic Wyse follows up his presidential address with a declaration that it is essential for education to be regarded as a...
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Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done?
'Oh my God. The Principal came in today and chose a child to read. I knew what I had to do: I knew I had to remind the child to say "p. 35 chapter 4"; I had to remind the child to hold the book in...
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