Race Equality Policy
BERA Council has agreed an ambitious policy and action plan for addressing racial inequities within the Association and within the wider research community. It also redoubles our commitment to...
Ongoing project
Race Equality in Education
BERA rejects any form of discrimination on grounds of sex, gender, gender reassignment, age, race, ethnic or national origins, colour, marital status, sexuality, family responsibility, disability or impairment, and religious or other beliefs.
Led by our Race Equality Policy and Action Plan, BERA has a number of activities which are specifically concerned with tackling racial discrimination within education. Through these activities, BERA intends to change the structural and institutional inequities and unjust power imbalances which affect our members and the wider research community – and which impede BERA’s work by denying us the benefits and advantages that diversity offers.
The policy itself commits BERA to monitoring our selection and assessment criteria and procedures to ensure that these do not discriminate unfairly or perpetuate inequalities, and to improve support and mentoring for BAME members. BERA furthers this commitment to bringing our resources and expertise to bear on wider issues of inequality and discrimination in education and society through all our activities, including:
- BERA’s members’ magazine Research Intelligence
- BERA Blog posts
- awards, grants and funding opportunities
- as a major strand to our Education: The State of the Discipline project
- events and the BERA Annual Conference.
Our Race Equality Policy and activities are not intended to be immutable or exhaustive: we welcome feedback and input from our members and other stakeholders, particularly but not only those with BAME backgrounds.
Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of five research projects that have investigated aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. Supported by BERA's...
Summer 2022
Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...
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Opportunity to help address the challenging histories of UK education’s past
BERA is supporting the British Psychological Society (BPS) in creating a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. The resource...
Education: The State of the Discipline
This project aims to provide a clear, comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline in universities; as a field of practice; and as a significant and central element of...
Race, higher education and special educational needs and disabilities
This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. This pilot study drew on survey data...
Race, higher education and special educational needs and disabilities
This pilot study drew on survey data of 224 students at a London-based university, with the aim of identifying ecological niches that might cause disadvantage and discrimination for Black, Asian...
Ethnicity & the early years workforce: A census of staff in maintained nursery schools in England
This date has been changed from the 30 November 2022. This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask...
Ethnicity & the early years workforce: A census of staff in maintained nursery schools in England
This study surveyed ethnicity across staff working in maintained nursery schools (MNSs) in England. The project aimed to gather a robust quantitative dataset to address the following...
Strengthening teacher networks: Decolonising secondary school history curricula
This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. The decolonising of curricula is a...
Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives
This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. Although there has been significant...
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study
This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. Inequalities in the educational...
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study
Inequalities in the educational achievement of minoritised students in higher education (HE) appear in a wide range of national contexts (Richardson, 2018), and are often attributed to structural...
Black History Month 2022
Led by our Race Equality Policy and Action Plan, BERA has a number of activities which are specifically concerned with tackling racial discrimination within education. This policy commits us to...
Race Equality in Education
BERA’s Race Equality Policy is a commitment to addressing racial inequities within the Association and the wider educational research community. In 2022 and 2023, BERA is presenting a series of...
Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of five research projects that have investigated aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. Supported by BERA's...
Ethnicity and the Early Years Workforce in Maintained Nursery Schools across England
In this webinar, we presented findings from the BERA-funded project ‘Ethnicity and the Early Years Workforce: A Census of Maintained Nursery Schools in England’. The project has examined how...
Summer 2022
Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...
BERA funds over £40,000 of research on race and ethnicity
We are delighted to announce new funding looking at aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. There are five recipients of the new round of small grant funding: Melissa Jogie...
Race Equality Policy
BERA Council has agreed an ambitious policy and action plan for addressing racial inequities within the Association and within the wider research community. It also redoubles our commitment to...
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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...
Continue reading blog postEducation, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond
This special series of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...
Black History Month at BERA
In recent months the killing of George Floyd and the events that followed have prompted all of us to reconsider the nature of racial and ethnic discrimination and bias, and what both individuals...
Spring 2020
Decolonising the curriculum: Transnational perspectives Research Intelligence issue 142 From the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the universities of Cape Town and (subsequently Oxford) to the...
