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SIG Meet & Discuss: Social Justice

1 Oct 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Come and join the Social Justice SIG to discuss and plan activities for the next academic year. You will have the opportunity to suggest ideas we can work on in the future. We will also make sure...

The right to childhood: What educators must confront in Gaza

As of April 2025, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 17,954 children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023, with more than 39,000 orphaned and more than 7,000...

Autumn 2025

Research Intelligence issue 164: Education in prisons: Generating hope, escaping stereotypes

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...

Antiracist multicultural education for White children, teachers and parents too!

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight why it is imperative for White children, trainee teachers, educators and parents to have access to and engage with an antiracist multicultural...

White working-class children’s underachievement in England and Northern Ireland: Continuing challenges and implications for policy and practice to close the attainment gap

In the first decade of this millennium local government researchers in London and Birmingham, England, put their heads above the parapet to address the issue of White working-class children’s...

BERA Announces Professor Heidi Safia Mirza as the 2025 John Nisbet Fellow

Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to recipients who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of our first...

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 proposals: BERA Blog special issue on refugee and asylum-seeking learners

The BERA Blog is delighted to invite proposals from teams of guest editors and authors for a BERA Blog special issue on learners from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. One proposal will be...

Addressing education inequality for Black and ethnic minority students in schools

One of the most challenging debates in education among schools, academic researchers and policymakers in the past three decades has been how to close the achievement gap of Black and ethnic...

Tracing the footsteps of anti-racism: From my journey to our collective responsibility

10 years of the BERA Blog

Reflecting on my own educational and professional journey – from my time as a teenager, as an undergraduate student teacher, and now as a professor in England – it is clear how crucial it is...