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BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series BERA, in collaboration with Emerald Publishing, invites book proposals for new titles in The BERA Guides series. This series aims to provide short,...

Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

A game changer for education research: An iterative survey for analysing ‘groupishness’

This blog post highlights the Iterative Survey’s special ability and demonstrates why the survey is considered ‘iterative’. To define a social group, we could record all experiences,...

BERA celebrates 10 years of the BERA Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

The role of place in educational disadvantage

Place matters to education. It’s role in disadvantage is evident from long-standing geographies of inequality in England’s educational outcomes. Research institutes such as the Educational...

Editorial: Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

Autoethnography holds significant relevance as a methodology in social justice work within educational research and practice (Boylorn, 2006; Ellis, 2002; Skousen, 2022). It is defined as a...

Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

In April and July of 2023, the BERA Social Justice special interest group (SIG) held an event titled ‘Beyond “Navel-gazing”: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change’. This event brought...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

Intelligence, sapience and learning: Making sense of our world

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Sentience–sapience relations are of particular interest because they contribute to determinations of what a human being is, how human beings are different from other animals, meanings that we...

What do we know about widening participation at universities in Scotland: And why does it matter?

‘Widening participation’ (WP) or ‘fair access’ is a flagship initiative of the Scottish government and overseen by a Commissioner for Fair Access in Scotland, with a stated aim that ‘by...

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...