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 excellence in the education research community.
Eligibility Criteria
Prizes
Application Details
Application for the award should consist of a submitted nomination via the ‘apply now’ button (above left)
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Judging
Nominations will be scored by a BERA selection panel. The panel’s judgement will be framed by the following criteria:
Thesis: The status and safety of teaching: A longitudinal study of why some young people in England become teachers, and why others do not
Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London
I completed my PhD at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society in 2023. Within the context of national and international teacher shortages, my doctoral studied whether and why young people do, or do not, want to become teachers when they older,...
Thesis: Education encounters, hybrid identities and spectral traces: contesting the myths of Aston through the accounts of South Asian Muslim Women
Assistant Professor for Race, Social Justice and Education at University of Birmingham
I am an Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice and Education at the University of Birmingham. My research interests include: exploring the experiences of women in diasporic communities; culture and migration through a hauntological and...
Thesis: New Faces and Changing Places: Discourse, identity and early career primary teachers in post-2010 Multi-Academy Trusts
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Dr Kathryn Spicksley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her postdoctoral project is concerned with developing a playful card game to improve dialogic mentoring between early career teachers and...
Thesis: Imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of Chinese students at a UK transnational Higher Education institution
Assistant Professor at Xiamen University
Jingran Yu won the BERA 2021 Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis “Imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of Chinese students at a UK transnational Higher Education institution“ You can read the abstract below: This thesis explores the...
Thesis: Learner-Centred Pedagogy and its Implications for Pupils’ Schooling Experiences and Learning Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Case Study in Tanzania
Assistant Professor at Hiroshima University
Nozomi Sakata is Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University, Japan. In the field of Comparative and International Education, her research interests include educational policy...
Research Associate at University of Sussex
Yasamin Alkhansa completed her PhD at the Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex, in 2019. Her thesis, was an ethnography of official history as lived and enacted in schools in Iran which won BERA's Doctoral Thesis...
Professor of Education, Consultant Surgeon at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
Arunthathi Mahendran was awarded the 2018 BERA Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis Surgeon Education, Engaging with the Immanence of Events Of Practice: An Exploration of the Ontological and Ethical Dimensions of Surgical Training and...
Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester
Sophina Choudry was awarded the 2017 BERA Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis: Mathematics Capital in the Classroom and Wider Educational Field: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class. The abstract for her thesis is below: “The...