Making the Right Call Together: Poster Impact – Where Research Meets Design

18 Nov 2025 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Making the Right Call Together

Conference Poster Design for Early Career Researchers: Communicate Your Research with Impact Introduction Are you preparing for your first academic conference or looking to improve how you...

Encouraging Intercultural Sharing and Community Building through Embodied Learning in an Alternative Education Space

23 Oct 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Emily Dobrich was awarded best presentation for Alternative Education at the 2024 BERA/WERA conference for her presentation: An Embodied Educational Research Project to Build Solidarity and...

Making the Right Call Together: Effective Chairing – practical advice and support

Making the Right Call Together

This session is for anyone who chairs sessions at BERA conference, anyone who would like to do this in the future, and for others who are interested in this vital aspect of conference organisation...

At the intersection of philosophy and poetic inquiry

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, that...

(M)othering and the PhD: Re-imagining researchers as entangled multiplicities

PhD mothers frequently find themselves under-represented, a reality reflected in social media posts, literature and academic discourse concerning their experiences. The prevalent narrative...

Crafting inclusive research approaches

BERA Conference 2023

Take three postgraduate researchers with a shared interest in developing inclusive approaches to disability and education, a carrier bag of magazines donated by the Women’s Institute, scissors...

Introducing the #baglady methodology

BERA Conference 2023

Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

How experiences as a research participant inspired an explicit commitment to parents taking part in a doctoral research inquiry

I cannot remember how many research studies I have been involved in over the past 17 years. This is not because I am an established researcher – on the contrary! Rather, it is because my...