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Chris Reid

Chris Reid is a doctoral researcher in science education at King’s College London whose research looks at the role of curiosity in secondary science classrooms. Before beginning his PhD, he...

Smriti Safaya

Smriti Safaya is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of York, where she earned her PhD in Education. Her current research focuses on the impact of experiential environmental education on how...

Young professionals as development agents: Change makers in education (CMIE) programme for doing development differently

To realise the goals of achieving Sustainable Development Goal number four (that is, the importance of quality education for all) different participatory development approaches (Cornwall, 2011)...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

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Unheard voices in education research

Contemplating the potential influence of typological relatedness on bilingual learners’ L2 preliteracy acquisition

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A survey of research on the acquisition of preliteracy skills in children’s first language (L1) has provided an important starting point from which the unique circumstances of bilingual children...

2023 BERA Undergraduate Award Winner Announced

The BERA Undergraduate award celebrates recent graduates who have demonstrated excellence while completing their undergraduate degree in a field related to educational research. When naming the...

Maria Pulman

Maria holds a BSc in Education Studies and a MSc in Education, Policy, and International Development from the University of Bristol. She is the proud winner of the 2023 BERA Undergraduate Award...

Luke Graham

Luke Graham was a science teacher for more than 20 years and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Exeter on rural educational disadvantage with schools across the South West. His...

Eesha Kapoor

Eesha Kapoor is a development practitioner with a master's in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She worked in a project managerial capacity with...

BERA is seeking two Book Feature Editors for Research Intelligence

This opportunity is now closed. BERA has an exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic academic editors who will manage a new book feature in Research Intelligence. The Book Feature Editors will...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

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On less optimistic days, we might reflect that for some in society, the social fabric that binds us together is currently not only fraying but unravelling. This leads us to question what it would...