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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...
Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series
Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series BERA, in collaboration with Emerald Publishing, invites book proposals for new titles in The BERA Guides series. This series aims to provide short,...
Network mapping: Fostering student belonging through relationships in higher education
Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022). Though...
BERA passes £500,000 in research funding since 2020
With the announcement of the 2025/2026 Small Grants Fund recipients, BERA is proud to share that we have now awarded over £500,000 in research funding since 2020. These investments have supported...
BERA Announces Professor Heidi Safia Mirza as the 2025 John Nisbet Fellow
Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to recipients who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of our first...
BERA Conference 2025
The 2025 BERA Conference will be held 9th-11th September 2025 at the University of Sussex. Hot topic proposals now being accepted: Deadline 9 June 2025
Upcoming events
Pre-Conference Workshop: Collage as method of research inquiry
The term ‘collage’ derives from the French verb coller which means ‘to stick’ and refers to ‘the process of cutting and sticking found materials onto a flat surface’ (Butler-Kisber,...
BERA Conference 2025
The 2025 BERA Conference will be held 9th-11th September 2025 at the University of Sussex. Hot topic proposals now being accepted: Deadline 9 June 2025
SIG Meet & Discuss: Social Justice
Come and join the Social Justice SIG to discuss and plan activities for the next academic year. You will have the opportunity to suggest ideas we can work on in the future. We will also make sure...
Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters. Marked by profound global...
BERA Teacher Network
The BERA Teacher Network is an inclusive community of educators from early years, primary, and secondary schools and further, adult and vocational education in the UK. The network serves as a...
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...
Neurodivergent Researchers Network
The BERA Neurodivergent Researchers Network is a new initiative launched by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). The network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent...
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Network mapping: Fostering student belonging through relationships in higher education
Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022). Though...
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The right to childhood: What educators must confront in Gaza
As of April 2025, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 17,954 children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023, with more than 39,000 orphaned and more than 7,000...
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Decoloniality and education: Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation
This blog post presents decoloniality as education in being emancipated ontologically in sense and epistemological enlightenment. Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation What is the...
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Adapting Gramsci’s framework through retroductive inference: Insights from Kazakhstani higher education
This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...
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