BERA Doctoral Thesis Award
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to championing educational research, and celebrating and recognise...
BERA Doctoral Thesis Award Winner
Emily Macleod, Dr
Honorary Senior Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London/McGill University
Dr Emily MacLeod is a Postdoctoral Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society. Within the context of national and international teacher shortages, Emily’s doctoral work studied whether and why young people do, or do not, become teachers as a first career. Her postdoctoral project at McGill develops this work with a focus on science teacher recruitment in Canada.
Before beginning her PhD, Emily was a secondary school teacher in the north of England, and worked on the ASPIRES research project at King’s College London and at IOE.
Emily Macleod's contributions
Born to teach? Questioning the narrative of vocation among teachers
We know that more teachers are desperately needed in England, and that some subject specialisms experience particularly severe shortages (Maisuria et al., 2023). Seemingly less of a policy...
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Annually, BERA recognises academic excellence and research rigour demonstrated by both Master of Education and Doctorate students. This recognition underscores BERA’s commitment to developing...
