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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...
Inaugural Doctoral fellowship winner announced
BERA is delighted to announce that Sharon Smith is the first recipient of our new doctoral fellowship. Sharon will undertake her PhD at the University of Birmingham and her proposal is titled...
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...
Money is not the solution to the teacher shortage – or is it?
In England, less affluent areas have had greater difficulties in attracting qualified teachers than many other parts of the country. In coastal rural areas, which can be highly deprived, 7 per...
Upcoming events
BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Edge Hill)
Discussants: Professor Amanda Fulford and Dr Mike Rowe BERA wants YOU if you: • Are a postgraduate research student (PGR) or early career researcher (ECR) in education; • Have issues...
Walk and Talk: Exploring My Research Methodologies
Walking and talking are a healthful, creative and positive aspect of social life. This event takes advantage of the beauty of the Autumnal environment to host a walking and talking event about and...
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...
BERA Bites, issue 4: Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge
The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning...
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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Money is not the solution to the teacher shortage – or is it?
In England, less affluent areas have had greater difficulties in attracting qualified teachers than many other parts of the country. In coastal rural areas, which can be highly deprived, 7 per...
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What (if anything) do we know about millennial educational leaders?
This blog post explores the concept of the ‘millennial school leader’, ahead of the presentation of our paper at the BERA Conference 2019. Our session will explore the findings of a systematic...
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BERA Conference 2019 to hear of new interdisciplinary study exploring the virtues underpinning ‘British values’
Much has been written, since the introduction of the duty on schools to promote ‘fundamental British values’ in the 2014 Ofsted inspection handbook, on the rights and wrongs of using education...
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Is pupil premium funding the answer to a worldwide problem?
Worldwide, socioeconomically disadvantaged students have lower average attainment outcomes at school, and poorer opportunities once they have left school. In England, poorer pupils are also...
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