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Doing the heavy lifting: The experiences of working-class professional service and administrative staff in Russell Group universities

BERA Conference 2023

Understanding what life is like for those studying and working within universities has been of increased interest to higher education research, policy and practice over the past 15 years....

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Developing (language) learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at higher education institutions

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

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Nightmare or dream: The three challenges of educational technology advancement in higher education

The longstanding dream of many economies is to drive their developmental agenda by harnessing the power of technology. In our recent article (see Adarkwah & Huang, 2023), we highlight the growing...

What do Home Office plans to remove dependent student visas reveal about the invisibility of student-parents?

Access to UK universities cannot be taken for granted; it has taken centuries for the working class, women and migrants from developing nations to be matriculated. My PhD study explores how...

Education: The State of the Discipline. High-impact educational research

As part of the association’s major initiative, Education: The State of the Discipline, BERA has brought together 16 case studies to demonstrate the outstanding impact of educational research...

A New Ecology of Higher Education: Disability, Access, Participation, and Belonging

Successfully attending higher education has become increasingly crucial for better work and life prospects. However, disabled students are likely to take longer to complete a degree (OfS, 2020a),...

A New Ecology of Higher Education: Disability, Access, Participation, and Belonging

Successfully attending higher education has become increasingly crucial for better work and life prospects. However, disabled students are likely to take longer to complete a degree (OfS, 2020a),...

The potential of mobilising interdisciplinary peer-to-peer mentoring between PhD students: Initial reflections from a pilot study

There is growing interest in using coaching and mentoring strategies to improve the learning and development experiences of postgraduate research students. Previous studies from England and...

Pedagogical differences between school and university styles of study? The urgent need for information

There are many things about university which go unsaid with students. Academics write about them a lot; but the complaints, concerns and empirical and theoretical research about the university and...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

BERA Bites, issue 8: Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment

BERA Bites

In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early...