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Typologising in, around and for the field of education management, administration and leadership

26 Jun 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This BERA Educational Leadership SIG event introduces researchers’ development and exploration of typologies in and around  educational leadership, management and administration (ELMA).  ...

Under surveillance?

On 30 September 2023 the Observer newspaper reported that the UK government has been keeping files on the social media activity of ‘education critics’ and ‘at least nine experts’ have been...

A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

What schools want: Recruiting senior leaders in England

In an increasingly fragmented and competitive education system, recruiting the ‘best’ school leaders is based on fabricated notions of leadership. A recent job advert earned derision for being...

Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education

In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...

Even More Leadership? A time to reflect

In 2005 I gave my inaugural lecture entitled More Leadership. Having now taken early retirement (to get on with my work), my professor emerita lecture reviews these ideas under the title Even More...

Bubble, toil and trouble: School leadership as Shakespearean tragedy in and after Covid-19

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches exacerbate divisions, push ambition through brute force, hierarchy and power; their interventions end in the wicked destruction of leadership potential and...

Could Dido Harding move into education next?

Dido Harding was appointed as a Conservative peer (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) by then prime minister David Cameron in 2014. She is head of the NHS test and trace programme, and has been...

BERA Appoints Members to the College of Reviewers

As an organisation we are committed to principles of openness, integrity and transparency and seek to uphold ethical values in all our activities and processes. The newly established BERA College...

College of Reviewers

The BERA College of Reviewers is a group comprised of high quality academic reviewers including practitioners and policy makers who draw on research evidence.

Five education myths that Covid-19 shatters

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

Education has been practised and conceptualised internationally in ways that demonstrate its increasing privatisation, enabled through a dependency on numerical data and an adherence to a social...