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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.
Being a subversive teacher educator
In this blog I am making a call on university-based teacher educators to be subversive (Rolfe, 2013). We are well-placed to nurture subversion within teacher education partnerships. In making my...
Education: The State of the Discipline – BERA publishes new report and three tenders
BERA has published the first report from a major project that aims to comprehensively map the state of education as an academic discipline in universities, as a field of practice, and as a...
BERA funds over £40,000 of research on race and ethnicity
We are delighted to announce new funding looking at aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. There are five recipients of the new round of small grant funding: Melissa Jogie...
Emotions and Moral Learning in Early Childhood Education
#BERA_MoralLearning @BERANews @BeraOf @ececsig What is moral learning at the early stages of education? What role do the emotions and social interaction with caretakers, teachers and...
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Emotions and Moral Learning in Early Childhood Education
#BERA_MoralLearning @BERANews @BeraOf @ececsig What is moral learning at the early stages of education? What role do the emotions and social interaction with caretakers, teachers and...
Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience
#BERA_Transform @BERANews These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a pandemic, huge environmental challenges, racial, social and economic inequalities, democratic deficit and a...
A Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability: Launch
#BERA_Manifesto @BERANews Education has a key role to play in creating long-term responses to the social and environmental consequences of the climate crisis. These responses need to be...
BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research – November
The theme for 2021 is ‘Overcoming challenges in educational research’ Discussant: Professor Andrew Peterson, University of Birmingham Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is...
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.
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 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...
The latest from the BERA Blog
Being a subversive teacher educator
In this blog I am making a call on university-based teacher educators to be subversive (Rolfe, 2013). We are well-placed to nurture subversion within teacher education partnerships. In making my...
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Social justice through non-violence: Not purely an intellectual endeavour
The issue of ‘violence-based inequality’ is a philosophical one that translates into more practical issues. In using this term, I borrow from Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence (2020)...
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Digital learning within custodial education
Online learning provides a platform for collaboration where learners can share resources and learning outcomes (Kelsey & Taylor-Beswick, 2016; Stoll et al., 2006; Scott, 2018). However, prisoners...
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What’s in a name? The rise of the practitioner academic and time to reconsider standardised induction support
Fuelled by rapid growth in degree apprenticeships and the number of public services requiring mandatory higher education (HE) qualifications, there is a significant and ongoing rise in the number...
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