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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...
Digital Resources
The new BERA Digital Resources page for members features videos and presentations from BERA events, as well as podcasts and more.
Identity building as a pathway to children and young people’s wellbeing in schools
For decades now, there has been a looming child and youth mental health crisis in many developed nations globally (WHO, 2020). Nations have varied in policy responses to the issue, but what many...
The BERA ECR Network presents: The University in Transition: Visual Higher Education Studies
This episode of the BERA Podcast is part of a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. This podcast focuses on the ways in which visual and creative arts...
BERA College of Reviewers
After a successful round of initial appointments in 2020, BERA is pleased to invite additional interested members to apply to sit on the College of Reviewers. We are particularly interested in...
BERA Small Grants Fund
BERA Council is pleased to issue a call for proposals for the BERA Small Grants Fund 2021/22. This year, we would like the projects to focus on the theme of ‘race and education’. We are...
Upcoming events
Creativity in 21st Century Education: Where, how and what next?
#BERA_Creativities @BERA_News Contextualised by the Durham Commission in 2019, and the pedagogic challenges generated during 2020, creativity is re-emerging as an educational imperative which is...
BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research – June
The theme for 2021 is ‘Overcoming challenges in educational research’ Discussant: Professor Gary Beauchamp, Cardiff Metropolitan Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is...
Book seminar – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives
#BERAEdPolicy #BERAEdEffectiveness @BERANews Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives, edited by SIG convenors Ovenden-Hope and...
President Roundtable Seminar Series: The Role of Early Language Development and Social Mobility
#BERA_PresRT @BERANews Lead: Iram Siraj OBE, Professor of Child Development and Education, University of Oxford BERA Presidential Roundtables provide compelling research reviews offering a...
BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant
The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. The grant, awarded biennially, is worth up...
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...
BERA 2021 Undergraduate Award
This award is for recent graduates who have completed their undergraduate degree in a field related to educational research.
The latest from the BERA Blog
Identity building as a pathway to children and young people’s wellbeing in schools
For decades now, there has been a looming child and youth mental health crisis in many developed nations globally (WHO, 2020). Nations have varied in policy responses to the issue, but what many...
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The corridors of silence
Our vernacular is somewhat noisy with idioms of silence: deafening silences; as silent as the grave; a wall of silence; suffering in silence. Other idioms offer implicit references to silence,...
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Environmental protest & education: ‘Something’s gone wrong somewhere’
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the combustion of fossil fuels is the main contributor to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Young people in England...
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Taking notice: Children’s observation skills in nature as a basis for the development of early science education
‘In that earliest childhood, we get those invisible glasses through which we look at the world all our lives, and these glasses color our views.’ Lainšček, 2020 This beautiful quote from...
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