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Adapting Gramsci’s framework through retroductive inference: Insights from Kazakhstani higher education

This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...

Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação, quinta edição (2024)

A 5a edição das Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação da BERA foi revisada e atualizada para permitir que os pesquisadores conduzam seu trabalho de acordo com os mais altos padrões...

Could cross-education sector collaboration around ‘scholarship’ boost educational research in the UK?

As researchers in higher education (HE) we find ourselves interested in the ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ (SoTL) (Felton, 2013). While difficult to pin-down, SoTL is both ‘field’...

Evaluating my evaluations

Evaluations. Crucial to university student outreach. A minefield? Sometimes. Including one time where I had to ask a young person, ‘what exactly is rizz? Is this good, bad?!’ – it’s good...

The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice

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.

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;...

Using Matryoska dolls to facilitate early years teachers’ reflections based on the Ecological Systems Model

This blog post focuses on my use of innovative creative research methods to explore the lived experience of GTCS-registered early years teachers in Scotland. As an early years teacher I am part...

Bridging the rural–urban divide: The role of community colleges in Pakistan

Education is vital for a nation’s development to ensure socioeconomic progress. Pakistan, however, faces educational crises, including limited access to quality education and rural–urban...

Useful Ethics Resources for Non-HE based Researchers

Ethical research is essential to ensure the dignity, rights, and welfare of participants are respected and that findings are trustworthy and responsibly produced. For researchers operating outside...

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,...

Editorial: The place of the EdD in personal and professional transformation

This special issue explores the value of the professional doctorate in education (EdD) journey and the sources of motivation for individuals pursuing their doctoral research based on their...