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Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

It is important to mark the Covid-19 lockdown as a significant transition which educators and students experienced. We all, to varying degrees, experienced a range of social, cultural and...

Ethnic capital and the role of British Kashmiri parents in the education of their children

This blog is based on research, conducted in 2021, which explored the concept of ‘ethnic capital’ through interviews with seven British Kashmiri academics whose qualifications ranged between...

The un-decolonisation of the HE curriculum in the UK: How representative are the current reading lists in education graduate programmes?

The Global South is inhabited by roughly 75 per cent of the world’s population; it is expected that this number will increase to almost 88 per cent by the year 2100 (Solarz & Wojtaszczyk, 2015)....

What’s in it for employers?

While higher education (HE) is often framed as a vehicle for social mobility, there has emerged a paradoxical situation of graduates ending up in roles that do not match their educational...

How should we prepare UK business students to become digital ready business leaders?

The background The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation of business processes across different sectors. This is because when businesses were forced to operate predominately...

‘Talking back’ to the securitisation of higher education classrooms

The alignment of education with actions to prevent radicalisation of young people is a global phenomenon and is reflected in the plethora of initiatives emerging from trans-European networks such...

The BERA ECR Career Development Fellowship: 2021 fellows share their stories

The BERA Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support early career researchers (ECRs) in the first three years following the completion of their doctoral...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

Creative, critical and reflective issues in higher education

Individual papers presented under the theme Higher Education Chair: Nicky Dulfer IN THIS SESSION A Reflection into the Impact of an Internationalisation Experience Via Digital Platform, Based...

Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Supported by BERA's Small Grants Fund, this study considered race, racism and racial equality within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Although there has been significant progress in...

Being a member of an academic community: A key factor in enhancing doctoral students’ academic writing

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

The challenges of writing a scientific article are widely discussed and acknowledged in research literature, including novice authors’ challenges (see for example Hyland, 2016; Lin & Morrison,...

Reflexivity in conducting qualitative educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Introduction In this piece, two early career researchers (ECRs), Muna and Nour, reflect on their experience of conducting qualitative research. The blog post is a continuation of the vibrant...