Neurodivergent Researcher Network Coffee Hour
The Neurodivergent Researcher Network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent researchers to come together, collaborate, offer mutual support, and share experiences. Our coffee hours...
Upcoming Events
BERA hosts seminars, symposia series and workshops online and in person across the UK. Find out more about our upcoming events below.
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Learning about Race Equality in Education from Scotland
This event supports BERA’s ambitions of addressing racial inequity within the Association and the wider research community. It is important to showcase and learn from the best practices of...
SIG Meet & Discuss: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education
We are having a SIG meeting to discuss our experiences of AI and impacts (positive, negative and neutral) on mental health and wellbeing. We will use some pre-reading from the BERA blog:...
SIG Meet & Discuss: Arts Based Educational Research
We hope you will join our inclusive, friendly, and collaborative ABER SIG forum to tell us all about your Arts Based Educational Research work. We encourage you to share your current...
Pre-Conference Workshop: Conducting systematic reviews in Education: Reflection and Praxis
Evidence syntheses, such as systematic reviews, help build a suite of research skills, can lead to deep subject knowledge and can assist in the identification of key gaps in the literature....
Pre-Conference Workshop: Collage as method of research inquiry
The term ‘collage’ derives from the French verb coller which means ‘to stick’ and refers to ‘the process of cutting and sticking found materials onto a flat surface’ (Butler-Kisber,...
BERA Conference 2025
The 2025 BERA Conference will be held 9th-11th September 2025 at the University of Sussex. Hot topic proposals now being accepted: Deadline 9 June 2025
SIG Meet & Discuss: Social Justice
Come and join the Social Justice SIG to discuss and plan activities for the next academic year. You will have the opportunity to suggest ideas we can work on in the future. We will also make sure...
Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters. Marked by profound global...
ECR Coffee Hour – Fall
This BERA ECR Network’s coffee hour will give you the opportunity to find out more about the ECR Network and its activities, as well as getting to know a little more about the team behind it...
Writing retreat for EfES: BERA Blog focus
The writing retreat is aimed at providing a friendly space for writing and networking between the BERA SIG members. We would like to encourage members from all parts of the UK and beyond to...
Encouraging Intercultural Sharing and Community Building through Embodied Learning in an Alternative Education Space
Emily Dobrich was awarded best presentation for Alternative Education at the 2024 BERA/WERA conference for her presentation: An Embodied Educational Research Project to Build Solidarity and...
Presidential Seminar Series – Anti-racist education in Northern Ireland: Progress, Problems and Prospects
On Tuesday 4th November 2025, the BERA Presidential Seminar Series will hold an online event to focus Northern Ireland. During a period of significant educational transformation, and in the...
SIG Meet & Discuss: Higher Education
The aim of the Higher Education special interest group is to contribute towards and enhance critical debates and perspectives on higher education policy, pedagogy and practice. This is a broad...
Making the Right Call Together: Poster Impact – Where Research Meets Design
Conference Poster Design for Early Career Researchers: Communicate Your Research with Impact Introduction Are you preparing for your first academic conference or looking to improve how you...
ECR Symposium Series 2025: Generating, Sustaining and Rebuilding Momentum
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....
The ECR Journey: Developing Criticality and Confidence: Becoming a Decisive Educational Researcher
Call for Abstracts: Submission deadline: 20 November 2025
Research making a difference in the classroom: BERA Teacher Conference
The inaugural BERA Teacher Network Conference is dedicated to teachers and teacher – researchers and will spotlight the transformative power of educational research in educational practice. The...
