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Sharon Smith recently completed her PhD at the School of Education at the University of Birmingham (July 2024). Her research interests relate to inclusion, education, the role of parents of children/young people with SEND, co-production, critical disability studies, risk/vulnerability, philosophy of education, post-qualitative inquiry, feminist materialism and post-human theories. Her PhD research was supported by the inaugural BERA doctoral fellowship.
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...
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...
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...
Continue reading blog postPhD mothers frequently find themselves under-represented, a reality reflected in social media posts, literature and academic discourse concerning their experiences. The prevalent narrative...
Continue reading blog postTake 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...
Continue reading blog postFinding 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...
Continue reading blog postI 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...
Continue reading blog postIn 2023 BERA invites applications for one doctoral fellowship for a student commencing their studies at a UK institution within the 2024/2025 academic year. The Fellowship will be for up to 3...
