BERA update and AGM 2021
BERA Members only - you will need to be logged in to see the register button The 46th BERA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held virtually, via the BERA website, on Thursday 9th December...
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Nick Johnson
Chief Executive Officer at BERA
Nick has been the Chief Executive Officer at BERA since April 2012.
He has a considerable background of management and advising on strategic direction in organisations concerned with public policy. Between 2004-7, he was the Director of Policy and Public Sector for the Commission for Racial Equality. In 2007, he joined the Institute of Community Cohesion as Director of Policy later becoming a Principal Associate. He subsequently started his own consultancy working across public policy and research and worked, amongst others, with Chatham House, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Local Government Association and Ofwat. Previously, he was at the Association of London Government (now London Councils), where he was responsible for corporate and strategic policy.
Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a former member of the Ethnicity Advisory Group for the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study. He also served as a Research Fellow at the Smith Institute and for 10 years was a Trustee of Young Citizens. He is Vice-Chair of his local school Governing Body.
Beyond education, his particular interests are in the areas of integration, equality and cohesion. Nick has advised government centrally, locally and internationally and has written extensively on citizenship, social capital, extremism, immigration and other related areas of policy and practice.
Nick Johnson's contributions
The Black and Minority Ethnic Degree Awarding Gap in Higher Education – Ratha Perumal
This week BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Ratha Perumal. Ratha is a Senior Lecturer engaged in research and teaching in Education and Multilingualism at the School of Education and...
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?:Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
In this Episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, BERA CEO interviews Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum about the updated version of her bestselling book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in...
Tackling widespread myths and misconceptions through transformatory teacher training and sustained support for schools: The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, Chief Executive of BERA speaks to Ruth-Anne Lenga and Alice Pettigrew of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
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On 31 March, the government published the report from its Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparity. It had briefed the headlines the day before and did a full media round before journalists, let...
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Making evidence make news: Fran Abrams
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson interviews Fran Abrams, the Chief Executive of the Education Media Centre, the UK`s first independent charity dedicated to raising public and media...
Access to education in the Caribbean: Dr Olivene Burke
In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Dr Olivene Burke (University of the West Indies) about educational research in the Caribbean and her academic work...
Lessons from Lockdown: The Educational Legacy of COVID-19: Dr Tony Breslin
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, Chief Executive of BERA speaks to Dr Tony Breslin about his new book: Lessons from Lockdown: The Educational Legacy of COVID-19.