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Reflexivity in conducting qualitative educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Introduction In this piece, two early career researchers (ECRs), Muna and Nour, reflect on their experience of conducting qualitative research. The blog post is a continuation of the vibrant...

Methodologies don’t hurt people, bad people wielding methodologies do: Autoethnography and that paper from Qualitative Research

This blog is inspired by the recent controversy surrounding that paper published in Qualitative Research. The paper, titled ‘I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an...

How experiences as a research participant inspired an explicit commitment to parents taking part in a doctoral research inquiry

I cannot remember how many research studies I have been involved in over the past 17 years. This is not because I am an established researcher – on the contrary! Rather, it is because my...

HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Join the working group recommending revisions to BERA’s Ethical Guidelines

BERA are inviting applications from across the educational research community to join a working group that will review and make recommendations for the revision of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for...

Collaging childhoods’ relationships 

In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...

Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação, quarta edição (2018)

Esta quarta edição, extensivamente revisada, ampliada e atualizada das Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação da BERA foi concebida para apoiar pesquisadores educacionais na condução...

Online in-depth interviewing: Covid-induced challenges

Lived experiences do not vanish into thin air like a mirage. They can be revisited under certain conditions using a relevant qualitative method. Simply asserting that a one-to-one in-depth...

A scholarly sojourn in autoethnography, or just navel gazing?

Autoethnography is a qualitative research approach that has been creating ripples within the contemporary academic context for some time, revealing a mixture of excitement and suspicion but also...

Reflecting on ethical dilemmas as a teacher-researcher: Taking a virtues-based stance

Insider forms of research typically present unexpected and ongoing ethical dilemmas for a researcher. These dilemmas often stem from pre-existing and ongoing working relationships with...

New series of the BERA podcast

This autumn we have launched a new series of the BERA podcast. Over the next few weeks we will continue to feature emerging research which connects to policy and practice.  Already we have...

Against empiricism

As educational researchers, our work is framed and therefore requires us to operate with and through a general theory of objects and object-relations. This enframing comprises a semantic...