2019 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award

Joint winners: 

• Neil Harrison & Richard Waller, for ‘Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education’, BERJ, 44(5), 914–938. 
• George Koutsouris & Brahm Norwich, for ‘What exactly do RCT findings tell us in education research?’, BERJ, 44(6), 939–959. 

2018 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award

Winner:

• Leckie G and Goldstein H (2017) ‘The evolution of school league tables in England 1992–2016: “Contextual value‐added”, “expected progress” and “progress 8”’, BERJ, 43(2): 193–212.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/berj.3264 (open access)

Commended: 

Finn K (2017) ‘Multiple, relational and emotional mobilities: Understanding student mobilities in higher education as more than “staying local” and “going away”’, BERJ43(4): 743–758.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3287

Allen R and Allnutt J (2017) ‘The impact of Teach First on pupil attainment at age 16’, BERJ 43(4): 627–646. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3288

2017 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award

Winner:

• Jones I, Wheadon C, Humphries S and Inglis M (2016) ‘Fifty Years of A-level mathematics’, BERJ 42(4): 543–560.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3224

Commended:

• Spratt J (2016) ‘Childhood wellbeing: what role for education?’, BERJ 42(2): 223–239.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3211
• Ianelli C, Smyth E and Klein M (2016) ‘Curriculum differentiation and social inequality in higher education entry in Scotland and Ireland’, BERJ 42(4): 561–581.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3217
• Pratt N (2016) ‘Neoliberalism and the (internal) marketisation of primary school assessment’, BERJ 42(5):  890–905. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3233
• Symonds J, Schoon I and Salmela-Aro K (2016) ‘Developmental trajectories of emotional disengagement from schoolwork and their longtitudinal associations in England’, BERJ 42(6): 993–1022.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3243
• Sanders J, Munford R and Thurnasarn-Anwar T (2016) ‘Staying on track despite the odds: factors that assist young people in adversity to continue their education’, BERJ 42(1): 56–73.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/berj.3202
• Hansen K (2016) ‘The relationship between teacher perceptions of pupil attractiveness and academic ability’, BERJ 42(3): 376–398.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3227

2015 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award 

Winner:

•  Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’ BERJ 40, 2, 397-416. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3089/abstract

Shortlisted papers:

•  Tammy Campbell, ‘Stratified at seven: in-class ability grouping and the relative age effect’ BERJ 40, 5, 749-771.
•  Kirsten Hansen, Moving House for education in the pre-school years, BERJ 40, 3, 483-500.
•  Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’, BERJ 40, 2, 397-416.
•  Sam Sellar and Bob Lingard, The OECD and the expansion of PISA: new global modes of governance in education, BERJ 40, 6, 917-936.

2014 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award

The BERJ 2014 Editor’s Choice Award recipients are:

• Ruth Lupton and Martin Thrupp, ‘Headteachers’ reading of and responses to disadvantaged contexts: evidence from English primary schools’ 39 (4) 769-788.

Shortlisted papers:

• Peter Davies, Jean Mangan, Amanda Hughes and Kim Slack, ‘Labour market motivation and undergraduate’s choice of degree subject’ 39 (2) 320-382.
• Susan Hallam and Samantha Parsons ‘Prevalence of streaming in UK primary schools: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study’ 39 (3) 514-544.