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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...
Innovative Research Methodologies: Corpus assisted discourse analysis
This podcast is the sixth and final instalment in the series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being...
The potential of infrapolitical dissent for influencing climate change education policy
As academics working to ameliorate the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction through education, we often question the efficacy of our efforts. As higher education teachers, we...
Education: The State of the Discipline. A BERA statement
BERA launched the Education: The State of the Discipline initiative in 2019 to offer a comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline, as a field of practice, and as a...
BERA is celebrating Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, BERA is highlighting a range of noteworthy contributions in our latest work promoting race, diversity, and equity in education. Research Intelligence issue...
BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting
BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting Abstract submission is now open here.
Upcoming events
Small Schools and Effective Curriculum
BERA SIG for School Effectiveness and Improvement invites school leaders, educational researchers, education policy makers and interested stakeholders to a twilight online panel discussion on...
Selling your research story: developing abstracts for conferences
Conferences represent one of the most valuable opportunities to disseminate research, giving ECRs the chance to present their work to a varied audience and to ask and answer questions. The aim of...
Communities of Philosophical Enquiry: a question-posing education
Philosophy with Children and/or Communities is thriving, along with the international educational and philosophical movement associated with it, as the wider significance of its pedagogy, the...
Thinking creatively about research dissemination: Blogs and podcasts
ECRs need to think creatively and broadly about the different ways that they can disseminate their research. The aim of this session is to explore the potential of alternative modes of research...
BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting
BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting Abstract submission is now open here.
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...
Digital Resources
The new BERA Digital Resources page for members features videos and presentations from BERA events, as well as podcasts and more.
The latest from the BERA Blog
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As academics working to ameliorate the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction through education, we often question the efficacy of our efforts. As higher education teachers, we...
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Social competence is a vital life skill: Universities should support students to take up the challenge
Universities are excellent at imparting technical and scientific knowledge to students; however, to what extent are universities good at passing on social competence, in particular intercultural...
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Dyslexia and artificial intelligence
Most readers will now most probably have heard of ChatGPT. For some this word may fill us with hope and anticipation. Others may tremble. Before we describe the potential applications of ChatGPT...
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Rethinking artificial intelligence through a relational lens
Artificial intelligence (AI) prompts an existential crisis for universities (Bearman et al., 2022), stoking concerns that we may lose the human touch or that teachers and institutions may be...
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