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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...

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...

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...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 158

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...

Introducing Intersectionality: In conversation with Heidi Safia Mirza

In this episode John Parkin, Mabel Encinas and Saima Salehjee chat to Heidi Safia Mirza, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society. Heidi Mirza achieved prominence with the publication of...

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...

Kate Marston

I am a Lecturer in Education with a particular interest in young people's gender and sexual cultures, digital relationships and creative, visual and arts-based methods. My teaching and research is...