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BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award
The BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award recognises and celebrates the impact of research and practice in the education community and how both have demonstrably engaged the public.
This award recognises and celebrates the impact of research and practice in the education community and how both have demonstrably engaged the public.
The award is presented annually and is normally awarded to a team of researchers.
Nominations are sought from:
- Teams whose educational research work has shown demonstrable public engagement and/or impact with the last 5 years
- Teams whose activities have boosted public engagement with educational research and/or its impact, or whose efforts have increased recognition and support for education research in public
For the purposes of this Award, ‘public engagement’ is broadly defined as activities that bring research and/or researchers and the public (or specific groups within the public) together. It is more than just disseminating research – effective public engagement is about two-way communication, with the researchers listening to and learning from participants or other stakeholders at different stages in the research process. UKRI provide a helpful definition of public engagement
‘Impact’ is broadly defined as an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia. It includes, but is not limited to, an effect on, change or benefit to:
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the activity, attitude, awareness, behaviour, capacity, opportunity, performance, policy,
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practice, process or understanding; of an audience, beneficiary, community, constituency, organisation or individuals; in any Geographic location whether locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.
Nominations are scored by a BERA selection panel and are framed by the following criteria:
Judging Criteria
- Quality of the process of work undertaken to facilitate public engagement/realise impact
- Effectiveness of the approach adopted in engaging the public/realising impact
- Significance and contribution of the work (e.g. evidence of impact on the public, evidence of knowledge exchange)
- Methodological rigour and robustness of the research underpinning the impact
Prize Details
- £1000
- Featured article in BERA’s magazine Research Intelligence
- The recipients will work directly with Emerald Publishing’s marketing and design teams to create a bespoke and engaging research summary
- The award winners will be promoted on BERA’s website, social media channels and in our newsletters to the wider research community.
- The award winners may be asked to play a BERA ambassadorial role. This may include speaking about their research at BERA Conference and/or other events, submitting a BERA blog, involvement on twitter, or being asked to record audio or video for BERA’s website.
To apply you must submit:
- 1000 word statement identifying how the applicant meets the criteria, can include supporting material including hyperlinks to the research
2022 Individual Winner
John Jerrim ‘s work on PISA reporting standards and his development of an analytic code has strengthened the environment in which quantitative education research is conducted. His work has impacted policymakers in the UK and internationally.
John Jerrim, Professor
Prof at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
John Jerrim is professor of education and social statistics at University College London, and director of the Quantitative Social Science research centre. His research interests include the economics of education, access to higher education,...
2022 Team Winner
Ulster University for the project “Future Schools: Northern Ireland”
Una O’Connor, Dr
Senior Lecturer at Ulster University
Dr Una O’Connor is a senior lecturer, based in the UNESCO Centre, School of Education, Ulster University. Her teaching and research focus on improving educational outcomes for children and young people, with a particular emphasis on social...
Jessica Bates, Dr
Senior Lecturer at Ulster University
Dr Jessica Bates is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Ulster University (UU) where she undertakes research across education and library and information science. Her research interests relate to education and information policy,...
Stephen Roulston, Professor
Research Fellow at University of Ulster
Dr Stephen Roulston is a research fellow at Ulster University (UU) with research interests in ICT in education, and the challenges of education in divided societies. He is part of the UU team which has worked on Future Schools, building on his...
Clare McAuley, Ms
Lecturer at Ulster University
Clare McAuley is PGCE Lecturer (History) at Ulster University. Her research interests include the role of education in promoting social cohesion; teaching history in contested societies; citizenship education; teaching controversial and sensitive...
2021 Co-winner
University of Oxford’s Teacher Education and Professional Learning Group – The Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales
John Furlong, Professor
Retired at University of Oxford
John Furlong, OBE is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College. From 2003 – 2009 he was head of the Department of Education at Oxford having previously held posts at...
Katharine Burn, Dr
Associate Professor Of Education at University of Oxford
Katharine is an Associate Professor of Education and coordinator of the Oxford Education Deanery: a multi-strand partnership with schools, focused on the development of teachers’ research engagement through initial teacher education, early...
Hazel Hagger, Dr
Higher education lecturer, PGCE course tutor for professional development at University of Oxford
Hazel Hagger has been a Fellow of Kellogg College since 1997. She is a University Lecturer in Educational Studies at the Department of Educational Studies where she is Director of Graduate Studies (Professional Courses). Hazel’s teaching and...
Trevor Mutton, Mr
Associate Professor at University of Oxford
Trevor Mutton is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education. He is Director of Professional Programmes and also Director of the Oxford Education Deanery. Trevor teaches on the Modern Languages PGCE programme and also teaches and...
2021 Co-winner
University of Kent’s Centre for Child Protection (CCP) – Keeping Children Safe: Advancing Child Protection Pedagogy, Awareness and Practice through Innovative Simulations
Tracee Green, Dr
Senior Lecturer at University of Kent
Dr Tracee Green is Head of the Centre for Child Protection and Director of Studies for the Social Worker Degree Apprenticeship at the University of Kent. Dr Green has been involved with the Centre for Child Protection since 2016 by way of...
Jane Reeves, Professor
Emeritus Professor at University of Kent
Jane Reeves is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent. A qualified social worker, Jane completed her MPhil (Kent) and PhD (Open University) analysing young people, in or on the cusp of the care system, who were young parents. Jane is a...
David Shemmings, Professor
Emeritus Professor of Child Protection Research at University of Kent
Professor David Shemmings is the Emeritus Professor of Child Protection Research at the University of Kent. Professor Shemmings is the author of more than 60 articles, books and chapters on relationally-based social work theory, research and...
Vanisha Jassal
Senior Lecturer at University of Kent
Vanisha Jassal (SFHEA) has been with the Centre for Child Protection since 2012. She is Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for the MA in Advanced Child Protection programme, a popular inter-professional online and distance learning...
Emma Soutar
Training Officer in Child Exploitation at University of Kent
Emma Soutar has over twenty years’ experience in the voluntary and education sector. During this time she has developed a broad knowledge of issues affecting the most vulnerable in society and the frameworks in place to protect and support...
Aravinda Kosoraju, Dr
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Kent
Dr Aravinda Kosaraju joined Kent Law School in 2018 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr Kosaraju’s research broadly focusses on violence against women and children; criminal justice and sexual offending. Dr Kosaraju is an ESRC scholar and her...
Isobel Drew
Lecturer in Child Protection/Social Work at University of Kent
Isobel Drew is a Lecturer within the Centre for Child Protection at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) and has an active design and teaching role on the new blended learning Master’s...
2020 Individual Winner
Leading the Future of Science and Technology Education in Wales
Tom Crick, Professor
Professor of Digital Education & Policy at Swansea University
Tom Crick is Professor of Digital Education & Policy at Swansea University, a joint appointment between the School of Education, the Department of Computer Science, and the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences. While his disciplinary background is...
2020 Team Winner
The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education – “Tackling widespread myths and misconceptions through transformatory teacher training and sustained support for schools.”
Alice Pettigrew, Dr
Principle Research Fellow, Head of Research Programme at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Alice Pettigrew is Head of Research Programme and Principal Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. She was one of the principal authors for both of the Centre’s national studies, Teaching About the Holocaust in England’s...
Arthur Chapman, Dr
Associate Professor, History in Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Dr Arthur Chapman is Associate Professor in History Education at the UCL Institute of Education and a member of the research team at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Historical...
Stuart Foster, Professor
Executive Director at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Stuart Foster, in his role as Executive Director, has provided strategic leadership for the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education since its inception in 2008. He recently led the Centre’s ground-breaking national study What Do Students Know and...
Eleni Karayianni, Dr
Research Associate at U C L Insitute of Education
Eleni is a member of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education research team. She is involved in the Centre’s research into teachers’ practices and students’ understandings of the Holocaust, the publication of a series of research briefings...
Rebecca Hale, Dr
Senior Research Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Rebecca Hale is part of the research team at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education and one of the authors of the Centre’s publication: What do students know and understand about the Holocaust? Evidence from English secondary schools. She leads...
Andy Pearce, Dr
Lecturer in Holocaust & History Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Andy Pearce works across all of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s CPD programmes, and is involved in the Centre’s research activities. He is one of the lead authors of our national research into students’ knowledge and understanding...
Ruth-Anne Lenga
Programme Director at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Ruth-Anne Lenga offers strategic leadership and management to the Centre and directs the innovative Masters module, The Holocaust in the Curriculum. This is the first of its kind in the UK and is rooted in the Centre’s ground breaking research...
We are delighted to partner with Emerald Publishing to present the prize for the 2020 award.
The 2020 award is a partnership with Emerald Publishing who will be working with the winners to publish digital research summaries.
“Emerald Publishing is delighted to support the 2020 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award. We are thrilled to extend our congratulations to Professor Tom Crick for his work “Leading the Future of Science and Technology Education in Wales” and to the team at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. Each of these winners have made a profound impact on education policy and practice within Britain, and have produced world-class research that can inspire and inform similar outcomes in other contexts. Emerald are deeply committed to supporting and mobilising the real world impact of research and look forward to working with the winners to create bespoke dissemination pieces about their research.“
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2019 Individual Winner
The importance of adjusting for pupil background in school value-added models:
A study of Progress 8 and school accountability in England
George Leckie, Professor
Professor of Social Statistics at University of Bristol
George Leckie is a Professor of Social Statistics and Co-Director of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. His substantive interests focus on design, analysis, and communication issues...
2019 Team Winner
The Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants (MITA)
Rob Webster
Associate Professor at University of Portsmouth
Rob Webster is an Associate Professor at UCL IOE. He is the MITA programme director and team lead for the MITA efficacy trial, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). He worked on the ground-breaking Deployment and Impact of Support...
Paula Bosanquet, Dr
Senior Teaching Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Dr Paula Bosanquet is a senior teaching fellow and leads the Maximising the Practice of Teaching Assistants (MPTA) professional development strand of MITA, which focuses on developing pupil independence. She is lead author of The Teaching...
Sally Franklin
Senior Teaching Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Sally Franklin is a Senior Teaching Fellow and delivers the MITA school improvement course for school leaders and the MPTA training for school staff, including as part of the EEF-funded MITA trial. Sally has worked on a range of SEN projects,...
Matthew Parker
Senior Teaching Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Matthew Parker is a Senior Teaching Fellow and delivers the MITA school improvement course for school leaders and the MPTA training for school staff. He has worked as a teaching assistant, a teacher, strategic lead for SEN, a primary headteacher,...
Jonathan Sharples, Professor
Professor at Education Endowment Foundation
Jonathan is a professorial research fellow at the Education Endowment Foundation, seconded from UCL Institute of Education. He works with schools and policymakers in the UK, and internationally, to promote evidence-informed practice and spread...
Marina Kipfer
Project Officer at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Marina Kipfer leads on day-to-day project management and administration for the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme. She also works in the Centre for Inclusive Education’s communication team. She holds a Masters degree in...
Kelly Golding
UCL, Institute of Education
Kelly Golding was a MITA Coordinator (2017-18) and delivered the MITA school improvement course for school leaders and the MPTA training for school staff as part of the EEF-funded MITA trial. Kelly was previously an Assistant Head in an inner...
Aimee Shaw
UCL, Institute of Education
Aimee Shaw was the MITA Project Manager (2017-19) and led the operational and logistical delivery of MITA activities, including the EEF-funded MITA trial.
2018 Winner
Louise Archer, Professor
Professor of Sociology of Education at University College London
Louise Archer’s research focusses on educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to social class, ethnicity and gender. She has conducted research on a wide range of issues, including British Muslim young people’s...
2017 Winner
Sue Sentance, Dr
Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre at University of Cambridge
Dr Sue Sentance was awarded the winner of the 2017 BERA Public Engagement and Impact award for her work on removing the barriers to effective computing education. Dr Sentance conceived and developed a model of professional learning for computing...
2016 Winners
Alice Bradbury, Professor
Professor of Sociology of Education, Co-Director Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years) at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Alice Bradbury is a professor of sociology of education at the Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years). She is also a member of the Centre for...
Guy Roberts-Holmes, Dr
Associate Professor at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Guy Roberts-Holmes was awarded the 2016 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award for his work in challenging the goals set out for Baseline Assessment for assessing and tracking the progress of 4-5 year olds within the primary system, which led to...
2015 Winner
Robin Alexander, Professor
Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Education Emeritus, University of Warwick at University of Cambridge
Robin Alexander was awarded the 2015 BERA Public Engagement and Impact award for his initiation and ten-year leadership of the Cambridge Primary Review and its successor the Cambridge Primary Review Trust. The Review remains the biggest, most...