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Opportunity to help address the challenging histories of UK education’s past

BERA is supporting the British Psychological Society (BPS) in creating a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. The resource...

My first conference: View from a PhD student

BERA Conference 2023

Trying to secure funding for a PhD analysing primary school food education policy in England, I stumbled upon the BERA PhD fund and made it to the final three candidates. Although ultimately...

BERA journals announce Editors’ Choice Awards for 2023

Two of BERA’s journals, Curriculum Journal and Review of Education, have announced their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in their 2023 volumes. BERA and the editors...

BERA’s Publications Chair and Engagement Chair re-elected

We are delighted to announce after an open call to the membership that our current Publications Chair, Dr Ros McLellan, and Engagement Chair, Professor Gerry Czerniawski, have been re-elected...

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting 2024 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

This system will NOT register you for the Conference, it is just the system we are using to collate the reviewers. Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA...

Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A mixed-methods study of small-group interactions among 9–10-year-olds

BERA Conference 2023

This pilot study sought to identify relationships between primary pupils’ personality profiles and their patterns of interaction during small group collaboration. In UK classrooms, pupils often...

Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding

Expert Panel update BERA’s Expert Panel on educational research funding is continuing its work. After some initial meetings, the panel revised its aims and also engaged a RA who worked with the...

Anthony Tomei

Anthony Tomei was CEO of the Nuffield Foundation from 1995 to 2012. With a background in physics teaching he led the Foundation’s work in science and mathematics education, which included...

Huw Morris

Huw Morris is an honorary professor of tertiary education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. He was previously Director of Skills, Higher Education and...

Education for Environmental Sustainability Newsletters

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Questioning my use of creative methods: The dominance of the interview in a multiple case study project focusing on the lived experiences of four gender-diverse teachers in UK schools

The BERA Researching Gender & Sexuality in Educational Settings event for early career researchers provided an important opportunity to take a few reflective steps back and think about an aspect...

Nicola Tierney

Nicola Tierney is a senior lecturer in Primary Education at St Mary’s University, specialising in Primary mathematics. Nicola joined higher education after teaching in primary school sfor 13...