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BERA supports high-quality educational research and the professional development of our community. We offer a range of funding opportunities, bursaries, and grants to help members undertake...

Early Career Researcher Career Development Fund

The Fund is a flexible package of benefits intended to support ECRs in the first three years following completion of their doctorate, focusing in particular on those who are insecurely and...

Sam Dexter

Sam Dexter is undertaking his PhD at UCL’s Centre for Research in Autism and Education and is exploring how special schools are using careers guidance to help prepare their autistic young people...

How foresight can help us plan the schools of tomorrow

Education policy debates often centre on the immediate: what can be achieved within a political term, or what’s feasible in response to a current crisis. But the future of education will be...

Anne Louise Rowan

Dr Anne Rowan has over 15 years’ of experience working in the education sector. Her career began as Post Primary English teacher, before progressing into roles in higher education, including...

BJET Fellowship

The BJET Fellowship is awarded biennially to an individual with the most compelling proposal for a piece of research in the field of educational technology. The Fellowship lasts for one year and...

Opening the black box of evidence, urgently

10 years of the BERA Blog

The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...

BERA Conference 2025

University of Sussex

The 2025 BERA Conference was held 9th-11th September 2025 at the University of Sussex. Attended by over 1,000 delegates. Keynote speakers included: Dianne Gereluk and Alison Philips.

Nonresident fathers’ contribution to their children’s social competence in early childhood

BERA Conference 2025

Divorce and nonmarital childbearing have become increasingly common, leading to more children growing up with a father who lives elsewhere (Sheffield & Winship, 2020). This shift raises important...

Initial teacher education: Current directions in times of global disruption

BERA Conference 2025

Teacher shortages, political instability, emerging global crises and the aftermath of the pandemic have created significant pressure on education systems across the world. In response, initial...

Education in prisons across England and Wales: Towards a future framework for effective learning spaces

BERA Conference 2025

What could learning spaces in prison be like? This question has guided our reflective research process, prompting us to reflect critically on existing practice and to create an emerging framework...

Breaking the silence: Gaza, scholasticide and the struggle for academic freedom

BERA Conference 2025

In times of crisis, silence is never neutral, it is complicit. As we bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, what’s unfolding is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also an assault on...