Ongoing project
BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or enhance learning opportunities for all. These include interventions, approaches including pedagogical or curriculum approaches and other alternative provision.
The reports from both the 2020/21 and 2021/22 award can be found on our website.
The projects awarded funding are as follows:
Alice Bradbury, UCL Institute of Education: Food banks in schools: exploring the impact on children’s learning
Anna Lise Gordon, St Mary’s University: Grief Matters – exploring the impact of bereavement and grief on learning for all
Emma Clarke, Bishop Grosseteste University:‘Images from the edge’: Examining girls’ experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion
Johny Daniel, University of Durham: Identifying Pupils with Reading Disabilities: A Practitioner Survey
Rebecca Berkley, University of Reading: Musicianship for Teachers: teaching general primary teachers to teach classroom music
Silke Zschomler, U C L Insitute of Education: Developing language learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at HE institutions – charting possibilities, challenges, and recommendations for policy and practice
Professor of Sociology of Education, Co-Director Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years) at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Alice Bradbury is a professor of sociology of education at the Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years). She is also a member of the Centre for...
Professor of Education at St Mary's University
Anna Lise Gordon is professor of education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. She started her career as a secondary school teacher, before working as an advisor for a local authority and then in initial teacher education at St Mary’s for...
Senior Lecturer at University of York
Dr Emma Clarke leads a postgraduate primary initial teacher education course, having taught in mainstream primary schools for almost 18 years. Her interests include research methodologies, approaches to managing behaviour, and challenging...
Assistant Professor at University of Durham
Johny Daniel is an assistant professor at the School of Education at Durham University. Dr. Daniel’s research focuses on developing and testing reading interventions and assessments for pupils, including those with and at-risk of learning...
Associate Professor in Music Education at University of Reading
Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. Her areas of interest are classroom musicianship, choral education, musical leadership and musical cognition. She is the co-director of the Postgraduate...
Research Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
Silke Zschomler is a Research Fellow in the Social Research Institute at University College London (UCL IOE). As a social scientist with a multidisciplinary background, she is interested in the lived experience of migrants and those seeking...
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...
Exploring the impact on children’s learning
BERA is delighted to announce that we are funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its...