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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.
Researching in Covid-era schools
Paul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...
Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship
The Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support ECRs in the first three years following completion of their doctorate, focusing in particular on those who are insecurely and...
BERA Publishes new Race Equality Policy
BERA has agreed an ambitious policy and action plan for addressing racial inequities within the Association and within the wider research community. It also redoubles our commitment to bringing...
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
Policy Options & Consequences: Education System Design – perspectives from across the UK
#BERAEdPolicy @BERANews Drawing on and celebrating the launch of the recent publication Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences, this webinar introduces speakers...
Leadership in schools during the pandemic
#BERA_Leadership @BERANews @BERA_TED This session will reflect on the challenges in carrying out research during a time of national lockdown. It will use a real example of a study which...
Annual Prevent and Extremism Webinar
#BERA_Prevent&Extremism @BERANews Current initiatives in counter-terrorism, the fear of extremism in education and the requirement for schools to promote fundamental British values have...
Independent Researchers’ Forum Annual Meeting
Join the Independent Researchers’ Forum annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021. This meeting is open to Non...
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...
BJET Early Career International Fellowship 2021
Applications are invited for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) Early Career International Fellowship. This one-year fellowship, which includes funding of up to £5,000, will be...
The latest from the BERA Blog
Researching in Covid-era schools
Paul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...
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Teacher micropopulism on social media
When you invest years in thinking about what populism is and how it manifests on social media, it is easy to forget that, for many, ‘populism’ is seen as a negative term, and that individuals...
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The problems with resilience thinking
The Covid-19 pandemic has given new currency to the idea of resilience, in terms of adapting to and recovering from adversity. However, in recent years the discourse of resilience has become...
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Want to increase the take-up of STEM studies? Use carrots and flexibility, and target female students!
The need to encourage more youngsters to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a recurrent theme in the educational policy debate, recently fuelled by environmental...
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