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...
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Kathryn Spicksley, Dr
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Dr Kathryn Spicksley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her postdoctoral project is concerned with developing a playful card game to improve dialogic mentoring between early career teachers and their 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 is currently an editor of the BERA Blog.
Kathryn Spicksley's contributions
Innovative Research Methodologies: Corpus assisted discourse analysis
This podcast is the sixth and final instalment in the series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being...
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...
The potential of mobilising interdisciplinary peer-to-peer mentoring between PhD students: Initial reflections from a pilot study
There is growing interest in using coaching and mentoring strategies to improve the learning and development experiences of postgraduate research students. Previous studies from England and...
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The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact
This ECR Conference celebrated the journey of “becoming” an educational researcher. It was an opportunity to celebrate and disseminate small and big successes in ECRs’ journey from research...
BERA Blog team welcomes two new editors
We are delighted to announce that the BERA Blog has welcomed two new editors to its editorial team. Denise Mifsud (University of Bath) and Kathryn Spicksley (Oxford Brookes University) have joined...
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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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...