The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
An email message came round to the National Teaching Fellow (NTF) email list inviting us to write a blog article for BERA and I jumped at the chance. The invitation hit me at the right moment and...
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With the election of the first Conservative majority government since 1997, and the re-appointment of Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State, we can confidently expect a continuation of the school led...
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It might seem as if buildings, the physical location of education, are of only tangential interest to an education researcher: something that can be left to architects in the same way as the human...
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Teaching mathematics is a social justice issue. Despite numerous calls from the mathematics education community, the curriculum in England remains stubbornly resistant to change. Too many...
Continue reading blog postOne of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....
Continue reading blog postIt came as no surprise when I encountered a synthesis of 89 papers on research methods education in the social sciences including education (Earley, 2014) which found that students taking research...
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Medicine is the health profession, which completed its professionalization project first. That gave doctors exclusive rights to remunerative activities like prescribing and operating. Health...
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A new forum for BERA When we talk of research, we are probably assuming that Universities are the institutions that carry it out. But many who have been involved with universities are still...
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In the post 2015 general election period there are a range of issues that we as researchers need to think about when we are writing about education policy. Let me illuminate these with one...
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