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BERA Small Grants Fund

Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will: make important contributions to the...

Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Irish primary curriculum framework and convergences with global curricular trends

A significant milestone in Irish education history was achieved by the launching of the primary curriculum framework on 9 March 2023. Curriculum policy has been influenced by the prevailing...

Karen Orr

Dr Karen Orr is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement at Stranmillis University College. Karen has worked across a range of research centres since...

A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact

This ECR Conference celebrated the journey of “becoming” an educational researcher. It was an opportunity to celebrate and disseminate small and big successes in ECRs’ journey from research...

Nika Maglaperidze

Nika Maglaperidze is a research assistant and first-year PhD student at Maynooth University in Ireland, researching teacher education and curriculum making. He gained his Master’s in Education...

Teaching for Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship anyway? Where does it fit in the curriculum – is it Computer Science, or is it Citizenship & PSHE? Where does it sit in the wider life of the school, whether in the...

Teaching for Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship anyway? Where does it fit in the curriculum – is it Computer Science, or is it Citizenship & PSHE? Where does it sit in the wider life of the school, whether in the...

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...

The future of the artificially intelligent examination

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...

Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...