The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
At the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
Continue reading blog postGeologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
Continue reading blog postIn August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...
Continue reading blog postData comes in many forms, some more accessible than others. At the recent BERA conference, I tried to address this with a poster presenting quantitative data in an unexpected way. The data came...
Continue reading blog postBERA members, through informal conversation, recognised that there was a danger that qualitative studies may become under threat from not being approved by ethical committees in an increasingly...
Continue reading blog postAs researchers we have a responsibility not just to inform participants about our research and its possible consequences, but to have confidence that participants are giving informed consent. So...
Continue reading blog postEngaging in a hot topic session at the 2019 BERA Conference, we explored the notion that ethical dilemmas in the field are dynamic and constantly evolving, heavily dependent on both context and...
Continue reading blog postA consistent refrain of colleagues is that research ethics committees seem to be committed to stopping research. Nothing could be further from the truth. The contemporary research ethics committee...
Continue reading blog postWith increasing attention on blended and mobile learning alongside an ever-increasing attempt to measure engagement means that we are constantly looking for ways or tools to help students achieve....
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