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Identifying school-based teacher educators’ professional learning needs

Globally, there is a growing focus on school-based teacher education models (Lunenberg et al., 2014). The ‘pendulum swing’ between theory and practice has made schools and teachers far more...

Virginia Lam

Experienced university educator with a 15+years' history of working in UK higher education including in leadership roles. Key work in lectureship, academic writing, research design and analysis...

Research Conversations on Identities in Doctoral Learning and Supervision

This was a joint event between the Higher Education SIG, Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG & Early Career Researcher Network. This event shared narratives of starting points and strategies...

Sahar Y. I. Alshobaki

Sahar Alshobaki is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow (School of Education). She has taught languages (English and Arabic) online and face-to-face in the UK, Austria, Turkey, and...

Alex Kostogriz

Alex Kostogriz is a Professor in Languages and TESOL Education at the Faculty of Education, Monash University. Alex’s current research projects focus on the professional practice and ethics of...

Nashid Nigar

Nashid Nigar currently teaches Educational Research Method at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE). Her teaching career includes English language and literacy instruction, academic...

Under surveillance?

On 30 September 2023 the Observer newspaper reported that the UK government has been keeping files on the social media activity of ‘education critics’ and ‘at least nine experts’ have been...

Eline Vanassche

Eline Vanassche is Associate Professor at KU Leuven Kulak, Belgium. She is a member of the InFo-TED council and focuses on the micro-meso-macro dynamics of educational practices, with specific...

Growing up green: What value is placed on accessing outdoor environments across different childcare and educational settings?

BERA Conference 2023

It is well known that spending time in nature is beneficial for children (Chawla, 2015). However, in Britain, children now spend less time outside than previous generations (Moss, 2012), which has...

Call for Candidates in the 2024 BERA Council Elections

Could you be part of guiding BERA’s academic and strategic leadership? We are pleased to invite interested members to put themselves forward as candidates in the 2024 BERA Council...

Engaging low-income families in education research: An interdisciplinary exploratory study

BERA Conference 2023

Our comparative research project considered the challenges encountered when engaging low-income families in education research in the UK and China. In this blog post we highlight the context,...

Mobile phone bans in schools: Impact on achievement

Initial analysis of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) suggests that mobile phone bans might help with...