2025 BERA Academic Citizen of the Year
The BERA Academic Citizen of the Year is an award intended to recognise a colleague working in educational research who has made a significant contribution to the discipline as a whole and the...
Awards and Funding
Every year BERA recognises excellence by awarding our annual fellowships and awards to BERA members who exemplify the very best in educational research. In addition we offer bursaries and grants through a number of schemes to enable BERA members to undertake valuable work in the field.
Current Awards
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Early Career Researcher Career Development Fund
The fund is a flexible package of benefits intended to support ECRs in the first three years following completion of their doctorate, focusing in particular on those who are insecurely and...
BERA Educational Research Book of the Year
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
BERA Equality in Education Award
The BERA Equality in Education Award recognizes an individual whose work has sought to address wider issues of inequality and discrimination in education. The nominee’s work will not only...
BERA ECR Conference – Best Presentation Award
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference takes place yearly, bringing together emerging researchers from across the UK to explore different themes. BERA aims to celebrate and promote the...
BERA Undergraduate Award
This award is for recent graduates who have completed their undergraduate degree in a field related to educational research.
Annual Conference Bursaries
We offer various bursaries to attend the conference. Please visit the official bursary page for more information on current bursaries open. More information and apply
BERA Small Grants Fund
Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year. The value of each individual award is up to £5,000 and BERA usually funds up to...
BERA Doctoral Thesis Award
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to championing educational research, and celebrating and recognise...
BERA Masters Dissertation Award
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Master of Education student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to championing educational research, and celebrating...
BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award
The BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award recognises and celebrates the impact of research and practice in the education community and how both have demonstrably engaged the public.
BJET Fellowship
The BJET Fellowship is awarded biennially to an individual with the most compelling proposal for a piece of research in the field of educational technology. The Fellowship lasts for one year and...
BERA and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme
BERA is partnering with the Kusuma Trust to deliver 4 research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent.
BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant
The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. The theme for the 2024-2025 grant is...
BERA John Nisbet Fellowship
Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to one or more people who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of...
BERA Brian Simon Fund
In 2023, BERA invited applications for a special anniversary grants scheme, made possible by a gift from the family of Brian Simon – a leading educationalist and former BERA President. The fund...
Event bursaries 2023
The BERA Early Career Researcher Network offers a limited amount of bursaries to the value of £100 towards travel for BERA Student Members only to most of in person events (excluding the annual...
BERA Research Commissions
Introduction The BERA Research Commissions aimed to identify and address issues of significance to the study and practice of education, with the potential to shape the discipline and its research...
BERA Annual Conference – ECR Presentation Award
BERA aims to celebrate and promote the work of our Early Career Researcher Network. We are presenting a prize to the best Early Career researcher presentation at this year’s conference. The top...
BERA Annual Conference – Poster Prize Presentation
All posters presented at the BERA Annual Conference will automatically be entered in the Poster Prize Presentation award. All posters will be judged by a member of the BERA Committees or other...
BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation Award
The SIG convenors are encouraged to attend all sessions for their SIG and judge each presentation. The 'BERA Annual Conference - SIG Best Presentation' is then awarded.
BJET Best EdTech Paper Award at the BERA Conference
The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) judges this biennial award for the best presentation on an educational-technology-related topic to be delivered during the BERA Conference....
The Review of Education Early Career Researchers Award 2021
This year Review of Education is seeking applications for two awards, each worth £2,500, from early career researchers in education. The awards will assist those at a relatively early stage of...
BERA International Representation Funding Scheme
One of the most important drivers of BERA’s international strategy is to facilitate exchanges of ideas and understandings between colleagues in different regions. This strategy acknowledges the...
Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize
The Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize is named for Anna Craft (1961-2014) who championed the role of creativity in education
