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...
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Mary James, Professor
Retired at University of Cambridge
Mary James, FAcSS, formally retired as Professor from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education in 2014. She previously held posts at the Institute of Education London, the Open University and in three secondary schools. She is a Past President of the British Educational Research Association and was awarded its John Nisbet Fellowship in 2019. She was Deputy Director of the ESRC’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme. She was a member of the UK’s Assessment Reform Group and has, or continues, to advise governments and research councils in England, Wales, Hong Kong and the Nordic countries.
Mary James's contributions
Schooling, innovation and community
Recently, I discovered some chapters that I had drafted in the early 1980s. These arose from a study of teachers at Bridgewater Hall, the first secondary school on Stantonbury Campus in Milton...
Continue reading blog postIn Conversations with…Professor Mary James and Professor Andrew Pollard
In this Episode of the BERA Podcast hear an interview with the 2019 John Nisbet recipients Professor Mary James and Professor Andrew Pollard.
Head, heart, hands, happenstance and horror: some reflections on being educational researchers
This Keynote will take the form of a conversation between two researchers who have the honour of being awarded John Nisbet Fellowships this year. Coincidentally, we have also worked closely...
2019 John Nisbet Fellows Announced
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...
