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Sarah Gillie

Sarah Gillie is a former primary school teacher whose research interests relate to inclusion in education across and beyond ‘compulsory’ schooling. Family diagnoses of neurodivergence have...

Emma Rawlings Smith

Emma Rawlings Smith is Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton where she teaches across postgraduate programmes. She taught 11-18 school geography in...

Introducing the #baglady methodology

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Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

Lauren Hennessy

My main area of interest is sustainable education and in particular the intersections with issues of social, racial and epistemic justice. I am interested in participatory approaches to research...

Teachers seconded as teacher educators: Transformations and tensions

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Introduction In Ireland teacher continuing professional development is provided by national support services. These are staffed with teachers seconded annually from their schools for a maximum of...

2023 Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship Recipients

The Early Career Researcher Network Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support ECRs in the first three years following completion of their doctorate,...

The problem of prejudice, discrimination and institutional racism in a post-92 higher education institution

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This blog post looks forward to the forthcoming symposium at BERA Conference 2023, which will present the findings from two studies that were developed to examine the problem of institutional...

Young women have more career choices but why more anxiety?

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Despite efforts to improve careers education, it is still seen to be largely ineffective. In addition, young people’s career aspirations have changed little in recent decades. OECD data from...

Education: The State of the Discipline – a BERA statement

Drawing on the conclusions of five research projects commissioned as part of a wider initiative, BERA has published a statement on the position of education as an academic discipline. Celebrating...

Charlotte Marshall

Charlotte Marshall is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University where she has recently achieved senior fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Charlotte is a postgraduate of the University of...

Philippa Isom

Philippa Isom is a lecturer of initial teacher education (ECE, Primary and Secondary) at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work focuses on preparing...

Education, mental wellbeing and the cost-of-living crisis: Bridging research and practice

The rising cost of living is causing high levels of stress and concern for millions of households. For educators, poverty is tangible in the growing numbers of hungry, cold and tired pupils...