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These are our stories: Affording children and teachers’ voices in participatory research

Choosing a mixed-method approach as the basis for my EdD journey was a moral as opposed to a methodological decision, based on my own values and beliefs. If I was to explore the lived lives of the...

Journal Peer Review: The Case of an Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics Journal

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers often struggle to navigate journal peer review (here are two BERA ECR Network podcasts (1)/(2) on the topic) because it is not a skillset that is...

Journal Peer Review: The Case of an Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics Journal

Journal Peer Review: What are Journal Editors Looking for?

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers often struggle to navigate journal peer review (here are two BERA ECR Network podcasts (1)/(2) on the topic) because it is not a skillset that is...

The BERA ECR Career Development Fellowship: 2021 fellows share their stories

The BERA Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support early career researchers (ECRs) in the first three years following the completion of their doctoral...

BERA announces winners of 2022 Undergraduate Award

The BERA Undergraduate award is for recent graduates who have completed their undergraduate degree in a field related to educational research. Judged by a panel of the Early Career Researcher...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

Alice Sleightholme

Alice is currently training to be a qualified primary teacher. Her professional development began with a bachelor’s degree in Education and Geography (combined hons.) at the University of...

Chang Liu

Chang Liu is a postgraduate student reading MPhil Research in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in sociolinguistics and ESL/EFL education with a special...

ECR Lecture: Making it count: Developing effective mentoring relationships as an early career researcher

Dr Yuwei Xu1, Dr Rachel Sandford2 1 University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. 2 Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022: Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research – March

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I am very grateful to Yan Zhu (BERA Early Career Researcher [ECR] Regional Rep for Wales) for inviting me to act as a discussant for the March event in the BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...