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Sohail Ahmad

Sohail Ahmad is a doctoral candidate at Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan. His PhD research project is on ‘developing and validating Classroom Observation Tool...

Sadia Bhutta

Dr Sadia Bhutta is working as an associate professor at Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan. Her research interest includes classroom practice, learning outcomes,...

Katy Jordan

Dr Katy Jordan is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, and a member of the Centre for Technology-Enhanced Learning. She holds a PhD from the Institute of...

Using principles from cognitive science to design a school mathematics curriculum

Introduction For many years, school curriculum resources have been designed without explicit reference to research evidence and without extensive trialling in classrooms (Burkhardt & Schoenfeld,...

BERJ Early Career Reviewer Scheme: Call for expressions of interest

BERJ is pleased to launch our Early Career Reviewer Scheme that aims to build early career researchers’ capacities in academic peer reviewing. This scheme reflects our commitment to inclusion,...

Does educational research lack discipline?

Several years ago, Dominic Wyse addressed the long-running issue of whether education is a discipline. I suggest that an essential requirement for a discipline is engagement between those adopting...

How who I am shapes what I do

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

It was with a degree of trepidation that I presented at the BERA ECR Network symposium in April 2023. Initially I thought this would be a great event just to attend and listen to the experiences...

Why posthumanism? And why now? Ethics and method for complex times

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

I first engaged with critical posthuman theory in 2015, at Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School at the University of Utrecht. At the time, I was working in teacher training, preparing people...

Exploring creativity in higher education: Could postqualitative inquiry be used, and if so, how would it work?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

In this blog post I explore new methods for understanding creative learning experiences in higher education. My research focuses on how creative art forms, including design and performing arts,...

Curriculum integration: A case for teacher perspectives

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

Curriculum integration is a way of enriching learning and knowledge production by combining two or more subjects (Pountney & McPhail, 2017). This combination or integration of school subjects,...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

Making decisions in educational research: Ethics and methodologies

‘The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already’: A researcher’s reflections on methodological changes and decision-making in educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

Reflective practice in educational research has a vital role when it comes to decision-making and methodological change. It depends on the researcher’s ethical practice; educational researchers...