The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
In this blog post we share insights from ‘Decentring the “resilient teacher”’, a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This project used a novel process of...
Continue reading blog postThis blog post shares findings from an annual online survey of members of the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) (Dempster, 2024) regarding school leaders’ working hours,...
Continue reading blog postIn this blog post we examine how administrative burdens combine with emotional and cognitive demands to affect school leader wellbeing in Ireland. High levels of stress and attrition among...
Continue reading blog postThe United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...
Continue reading blog postThis blog post examines influences on teacher wellbeing and professional sustainability in Scotland’s education system. The Teacher Workload Research Project (Hulme et al., 2024), funded by...
Continue reading blog postReflecting on my own educational and professional journey – from my time as a teenager, as an undergraduate student teacher, and now as a professor in England – it is clear how crucial it is...
Continue reading blog postThis year's tenth anniversary of UK Children’s Mental Health week took the theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, focusing on resilience, confidence and wellbeing. Sharing this, the...
Continue reading blog postIn today’s globalised world, classrooms are becoming increasingly multilingual. This development calls for a reevaluation of traditional monolingual teaching methods and a move towards...
Continue reading blog postLanguage is constantly changing and evolving. For example, in psychology, terminology which was previously considered acceptable or appropriate (such as impairment, deficit) may now be seen as...
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