Craig Skerritt, Dr
Lecturer at University of Manchester
Craig Skerritt is a lecturer in education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester.
Special Interest Group
Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making
This SIG is interested in the relationship between research and policy in education
This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested in the relationship between research and policy in education. Rather than critiquing policies, the SIG is particularly interested in the procedures involved in making policies, and the role played by research. The SIG recognises that policies are not only made in government departments, but in schools and a wide range of education institutions.
Research interests
- The relationship between research and policy
- The use of evidence in policy production
- How policies get produced
- Policy advice mechanisms
- What constitutes ‘expertise’
- The role of all education stakeholders in the policy process
SIG aims
The SIG aims to identify and enhance the various ways in which research can have a stronger influence on education policy. For example, the SIG’s 2024 work commenced with a webinar discussing a potential expert policy advice mechanism. It is intended that 2-3 webinars will be held per annum.
SIG Convenors
Content associated with this SIG
Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)
The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...
BERA Small Grants Fund
Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will: make important contributions to the...
Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 161
Teacher education
Understanding and improving the wellbeing of postgraduate taught students: A longitudinal study
Research from around the globe has highlighted that university student wellbeing is lower than that of the general adult population (see for example Adlaf et al., 2001; Larcombe et al., 2014), and...
Continue reading blog postParent engagement in school curriculum: Whose voices get heard?
Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...
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Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)
The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...
Identifying tensions between school readiness policy and teacher beliefs, knowledge and practice in early childhood education
This blog post is based on my recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal (Kay, 2023). Using data from semi-structured interviews with two teachers, the paper addresses...
Continue reading blog postA global goal but local challenges: Perspectives on education in the Global South
This BERA Blog special issue highlights educational topics in the Global South that require urgent attention if we want to reach the goal of quality education for all. The contributions illustrate...
