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Stay calm and e-educate: Technology, education and mental wellbeing

#BERA_MentalHealth In unprecedented times, maintaining education for learners across the spectrum has been a huge challenge, requiring educators to adapt quickly to online teaching and...

BERA Bites, issue 6: Researching education & mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

BERA Bites

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. Even before the Covid-19 crisis hit, there was...

How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...

Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education SIG Annual Meeting

Join the Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021   This meeting will be...

President Roundtable Seminar Series: Wellbeing – Schools and pupil mental health: do we fix the child or do we fix the school?

President’s Roundtable Seminar Series

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email conference@bera.ac.uk  to register.   Lead: Professor Jane Hurry, UCL Institute of Education BERA Presidential Roundtables...

President Roundtable Seminar Series: Wellbeing – Schools and pupil mental health: do we fix the child or do we fix the school?

BERA Presidential Roundtables provide compelling research reviews offering a state-of-the-art position on topics that are of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy makers and wider...

Meeting the needs of students with mental health challenges in online learning environments

Distance learning might seem to offer an ideal opportunity for students with mental health challenges to study for a degree, as it is flexible and can be done from home with the student...

Do private schools make a difference to mental health?

Parents send their children to private schools for a range of reasons, and we know that British private schools are successful in terms of academic attainment and that their alumni tend to go on...

The good, the bad and the ugly in higher education: Is there any hope for students?

It is an interesting time to be a student. Not a single day passes without newspaper and social media headlines echoing student concerns about the (mis)handling of the Covid-19 crisis on campuses,...

Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning

The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...

Building on Covid-19 experiences for future organisational improvisations

This recent period of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly unexpected and required a very rapid response by everyone across university systems. The use of online delivery as...

Values first, goals second

I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...