BERA Small Grants Fund 2025/2026 Enquiries Meeting

Enquiries Meeting We will be holding a non mandatory enquiries meeting on 30th April 2025 at 11:00am. This session will provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to learn more about the...

ECR Symposium Series 2025: Generating, Sustaining and Rebuilding Momentum

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2025

Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is designed for early career researchers (ECRs), including Master’s and Doctoral students, as well as those in the early post-doctoral phase....

Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland

While the right to education is guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018) educational inequality is a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020).  On...

Exploring pupil achievement and underachievement by place and socioeconomic disadvantage in England and Wales

The event will focus on ‘place’ and it aims to highlight how socioeconomic disadvantage and geographical context shape educational outcomes in England and Wales. It will focus on the varying...

English Across the Divides: Investigating perceptions of ‘English’ across the Key Stages in England

The Common English Forum’s (CEF) recent Manifesto for English in England (2024) states that subject English is an ‘eco-system’ that stretches from the Early Years and Ks1 to KS5 and beyond....

Creative Advocacy

Arts Based Educational Research SIG Webinar Series

Creative Advocacy – using arts based education research to engage new audiences and give voice to participants This webinar discusses how the arts can be used to communicate powerful ideas in...

Researching Gender & Sexuality in Educational Settings

Join us for an online event hosted by the Sexualities and Gender Special Interest Group of the British Education Research Association. Calling all educators, researchers, and advocates interested...

The Overlaps and Intersections of Playwork and Youth Work

This online event explores the potential overlaps and intersections in services provided to children and young people in the UK, focusing on the perspectives of playworkers and youth workers....

Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England?

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

In July 2024 a newly elected Labour government announced an independent curriculum and assessment review for England spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5. The purpose of this exercise...

Academic Writing Retreat

This writing retreat will create a productive environment for participants to write. There are quiet spaces to write, with short spaces to share tips and tools, to overcome writing blocks, and to...

Global Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaborative Solutions

This event invites academics, PhD students, early career scholars, educational consultants, and technology developers in higher education to explore the dynamic role of Artificial Intelligence...

Defining ‘Social Justice’ in Education and Educational Research: what do we, as practitioners and academics, mean?

This 2-part event will provide a forum to engage in important discussions, reflections and debate on ‘social justice’ in education and development of next steps with attendees in terms of...