International Women’s Day 2024
On #InternationalWomensDay, BERA is celebrating the incredible achievements and contributions of women in educational research. Read below for a selection of exciting BERA events, blogs and...
BERA Council
Barbara Skinner, Professor
Professor in TESOL and Education at Ulster University
Barbara Skinner is a Professor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)and Education in the School of Education at Ulster University. Barbara lectures on a range of teacher education courses. She is involved with doctoral supervision and examination. In addition to her role as a researcher and teacher educator, she is a council member of BERA; a member of the editorial board of the BERA Blog; co-convenor of BERA’s Language and Literacy special interest group; and a member of BERA’s Publications Committee.
Barbara Skinner's contributions
How to develop more reach for your research
This BERA ECR conference offered a range of strategies to ensure your research has ‘reach’, that is, impact from the word go! The two keynote sessions explored how researchers can plan for...
Voices of the unheard: diversifying approaches to capturing, understanding and positioning the voices of participants in language and literacy research
The aim of this event was to expand our understanding of how to capture and authentically represent the voices of participants in language and literacy research. Through this symposium we hoped to...
Voices of the Unheard: Diversifying approaches to capturing understanding and positioning the voices
The aim of this event is to expand our understanding of how to capture and authentically represent the voices of participants in language and literacy research. Through this symposium we hope to...
Editorial: Spotlight on language and literacy
Findings from studies captured in this special issue make for compelling reading about the direction of language and literacy research in the UK and further afield. Ian Collen, from Queen’s...
Continue reading blog postSpotlight on language and literacy
This special issue of the BERA Blog places a spotlight on educational research in the field of language and literacy. Covering a range of topics from modern language learning to language as an...
SIG Forum Meeting – Literacy and Language
Join the Literacy and Language SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023. This meeting will be hosted online,...
Education research: Northern Ireland
Education in Northern Ireland (NI) is characterised by segregation along religious/sectarian lines underpinned by a long history of religious tensions and fractured politics. Ninety-three per...
