Special Interest Group
The Educational Effectiveness and Improvement SIG is concerned with sharing, developing and disseminating research that explores, informs and improves outcomes in education. We are interested educational effectiveness and improvement in any education sector, in any country and at a system or individual level (pupil, teacher, leader).
The aims of the SIG are to:
Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope is Provost and Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University. In 2018 she developed and opened Marjon University Cornwall based in Truro, which she leads. Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist...
Senior Lecturer at University of East London
Aniqa Khaliq is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Aniqa started her career as a mathematics teacher, teaching and learning across sectors (youth academies, school, FE and HE),...
Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...
The Educational Effectiveness and Improvement SIG is looking to recruit an Early Career Researcher to help run the SIG over the next 3 years. The Educational Effectiveness and Improvement SIG...
Imagine you’re a student in an isolated secondary school in a rural, coastal or former industrial area of England. You look and sound like all your classmates; there’s very little diversity....
Continue readingSupported by BERA's Small Grants Fund, this study considered race, racism and racial equality within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Although there has been significant progress in...
The idea and purpose of the contemporary university is key for policymakers, university leaders and researchers. For some, widening university access to the ‘masses’ has created a social...
Continue readingResearch Intelligence issue 152: SOS (Save Our Staff): Protecting & enhancing staff wellbeing in education
Children and young people’s right to access an inclusive education is incontestable. Our systems in education, however, can present barriers to achieving this. I am the head of inclusion for a...
Continue readingIn England, the Teachers' Standards are often used formatively to guide quality improvement towards a final summative, quality assurance process which takes place to ensure that the standards have...
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