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The Anna Craft Memorial Lecture

This panel discussion marks the culmination of a decade-long series celebrating the profound contributions of Anna Craft to the field of creativity and education. This final session aims...

End-point assessments in degree-level apprenticeships: Lessons learned

The first Independent End-Point Assessment (EPA) for Coventry University’s Project Management Degree Apprenticeship in December 2024 marks a significant milestone, validating apprentices’...

Corinne Latham

Funmilola Vanessa Odofin

Funmilola Vanessa Odofin is a Lecturer and Associate Course Director in Project Management at Coventry University. Her professional journey is rooted in more than 20 years of academic and...

Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education

The aim of this PRiME event is to build the capacity of practitioner researchers through engagement with the wider research community. This aim will be achieved by: Providing an opportunity...

Teaching on the edge: Teacher mental health and workload pressures in Wales

The landscape of teaching in Wales has changed significantly post-Covid-19, with educators reporting increased workload pressures, rising Additional Learning Needs demands (Conn & Hutt, 2020),...

Editorial: Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Navigating the future of Alberta’s teaching profession: Insights from teachers and school leaders

In this blog post I demonstrate how research data from the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) draw a picture of increasing teacher attrition in Alberta, Canada, and identify potential...

Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Filling the leaky bucket: Teacher workload and wellbeing in Tennessee

The United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...

Teacher workload in Scotland: Challenges to sustainability

This blog post examines influences on teacher wellbeing and professional sustainability in Scotland’s education system. The Teacher Workload Research Project (Hulme et al., 2024), funded by...

‘Parents are clients and students are the product’: Secondary English teachers’ workload as moral injury

Teacher workload and its contribution to insufficient recruitment and retention is a prominent theme in recent research on teachers’ work (Heffernan et al., 2022; Stacey et al., 2024). In...