The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact
This year’s ECR Conference celebrates the journey of “becoming” an educational researcher. It is an opportunity to celebrate and disseminate small and big successes in ECRs’ journey from...
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Kathryn Spicksley, Dr
Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University
Dr Kathryn Spicksley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests centre on the impact of political and cultural discourse on the lives and worlds of teachers, especially Early Career Teachers. Her current research project will use innovative methods borrowed from corpus linguistics to develop a gamified intervention to facilitate dialogic mentoring between Early Career Teachers and school mentors.
Kathryn's PhD, titled New Faces and Changing Places: Discourse, identity and early-career primary teachers in post-2010 Multi-Academy Trusts, explored the relationship between post-2010 education policy and Early Career Teacher professional identity. It won the BERA Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2022.
Kathryn Spicksley's contributions
BERA Doctoral Thesis Award
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and...
The BERA ECR Career Development Fellowship: 2021 fellows share their stories
The BERA Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support early career researchers (ECRs) in the first three years following the completion of their doctoral...
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Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship
The Fellowship 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...
2022 Doctoral Thesis Award Winner
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and methodological...
Considering teacher wellbeing and commitment to teaching in the event of a ‘firebreak’ lockdown this autumn
There are reports that an October lockdown might be used as a ‘firebreak’ if cases of the Covid-19 virus rise too high with the return of schools and universities (Mason & Davis, 2021). As...
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Remote, distant but connected: Using walking and talking as PhD researchers during Covid-19
In this blog post we aim to share our experiences of the BERA Walk and Talk at a Distance event, and demonstrate how remote walking and talking events have the potential to relieve the isolation...
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Walk and Talk at a distance
This event is now fully booked, to be added on to the waiting list please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERAWalkandTalk Walking and talking are healthful, creative and positive aspects of social...
