BERA Conference 2022
BERA 2022 Welcome A Welcome from Professor Mhairi C Beaton, Conference and Events Committee Chair As I begin to write this welcome text to our 2022 BERA Annual Conference, my thoughts have...
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Aimee Quickfall
Bishop Grosseteste University
Dr Aimee Quickfall is head of programmes for primary and early years initial teacher education at Bishop Grosseteste University. She was a primary and early years teacher for 15 years and loves helping others to achieve their dream of being a life-changing teacher; her trainees are some of the loveliest people on Earth. Aimee’s current research interests are the experiences of teachers who are also mothers, wellbeing and workload for teachers, and teacher trainees and the experiences of students on her programmes. Her most frequently used methodologies/methods are narrative and feminist approaches, life-history interviews and discourse analysis.
Aimee Quickfall's contributions
How newly qualified teachers are coping in the time of Covid-19
Newly qualified teachers (NQTs) have arguably always had tough challenges to overcome; two in every five NQTs experience mental health problems (Education Support Network, 2018). Challenges cited...
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Student and Teacher Wellbeing
Registration for this event has now closed, please events@bera.ac.uk if you'd like to register. Link to event recording #BERA_Wellbeing Online event – pre-registration essential The...
Student and Teacher Well-being
The wellbeing of students and teachers is now an educational policy priority. Increasingly, teachers are held responsible for the wellbeing of their students and school managers are expected to...
The PGCE journey: Wellbeing and workload
The PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract...
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