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The BERA podcast features educational leaders and experts speaking about hot topic issues in Education. Our aim is to produce and promote episodes that attract policymakers, parents, teachers, educational leaders, members of school communities, politicians, and anyone who is interested in education today.
In this episode, former BERA President, John Furlong joins BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson to discuss his recently published memoir “Islands: In Search of Brave New Worlds”. John reflects on...
On this week's episode Nick Johnson the Chief Executive introduces some of the best moments from season 4 of the podcast. This episode contains clips of all the interviewees throughout the season.
Dr Miro Griffiths is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in Disability Studies, in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, at the University of Leeds. His research primarily explores disabled...
Dr Achala Gupta is a lecturer at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. Her research focuses on investigating educational issues sociologically. Achala’s current interests...
In this episode multiple and multidimensional transitions in education are reflected on through a post-lockdown lens. Jonathan Glazzard interviews Beth Hannah about developing a framework...
Daniel Vanello is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick where he is pursuing the project “Shaping Our Moral Identity” (2020-2023)....
Gihan Ismail is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University and a teaching assistant in Education at the University of Bath. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of...
Dr Lorna Arnott is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Early Years in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde. Lorna's main area of interest is in children's early play experiences,...
Dr Lynda Dunlop is a Senior Lecturer in Science Education and a member of the University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG). Her research focuses primarily on the philosophical and...
On this week's episode Nick Johnson, BERA's Chief Executive, introduces some of the best moments from season 3 of the podcast. This episode contains clips of all the interviewees throughout...
Yinka Olusoga is a historian of childhood and education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Herr research focuses on the discursive construction of children and childhood in...
Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Development at the University of Stavanger, Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University,...
Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Today she discusses her work in neurodiversity in the classroom and her work with...
On this week's episode of the BERA podcast Nick Johnston (Chief Executive of BERA) interviews Dr. Emily Marchant from Swansea University. Emily's research focuses on primary school-aged children...
In this week's episode Nick Johnson (Chief Executive of BERA) interviews Jake Anders. Jake is Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Science and his research focuses on the causes and...
In this weeks episode BERA President Dominic Wyse interviews the John Nisbet Fellowship recipient Neil Mercer. Neil is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, where he is...
Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from...
This week on the BERA podcast we have Adam Peter Lang. Adam is a former London secondary school teacher and school leader. He is now at University College, London, working as a PhD research...
This week BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Ratha Perumal. Ratha is a Senior Lecturer engaged in research and teaching in Education and Multilingualism at the School of Education and...
In this Episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, BERA CEO interviews Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum about the updated version of her bestselling book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, Chief Executive of BERA speaks to Ruth-Anne Lenga and Alice Pettigrew of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson interviews Fran Abrams, the Chief Executive of the Education Media Centre, the UK`s first independent charity dedicated to raising public and media...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Dr Olivene Burke (University of the West Indies) about educational research in the Caribbean and her academic work...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, Chief Executive of BERA speaks to Dr Tony Breslin about his new book: Lessons from Lockdown: The Educational Legacy of COVID-19.
In the first episode of 2021, BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Tom Crick (Swansea University) who is the recent recipient of the the 2020 BERA Public Engagement and Impact...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast, the BERA Executive Committee reflects on the organization's work in 2020 and looks ahead to what is to come in 2021.
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson interviews Professor Gemma Moss about her latest research project "A duty of care and a duty to teach: educational priorities in response to the...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Joanna Merrett discusses the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on elective home education families and her recent research submitted to the UK EHE select...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Paul Miller, the President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management...
In this Episode of the BERA Podcast hear an interview with the 2019 John Nisbet recipients Professor Mary James and Professor Andrew Pollard.
This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Allana Gay, the founder of the BAMEeD Network.
In this Episode Dr Suzanne Culshaw explores what it means to be struggling as a teacher and how we can promote wellbeing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic
This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) one of the 2020 John Nisbet fellows.
In this episode of the BERA Podcast you can listen to Professor Gerry Czerniawski deliver his keynote lecture "Becoming and being an ECR – identity, practice & serendipity."
This episode of the BERA Podcast explores how how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted primary and post-primary pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) and their families.
This episode of the BERA podcast discusses data collection solutions to the unprecedented challenges presented during the Covid-19 lockdown.
This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Ian Menter (Unviersity of Oxford) one of the 2020 John Nisbet Fellows.