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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...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

BERA Conference 2023

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...

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...

Dyslexia misconceptions among dyslexia assessors

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty characterised by challenges in reading and spelling despite adequate learning opportunities, and in the absence of other cognitive (such as ADHD) or sensory...

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...

Survey of dyslexia identification methods

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Supported by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund, this project sought to understand assessment procedures that professionals across the UK employ to identify students with dyslexia. Through a...

Musicianship for key stage 1 teachers

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Teaching generalist primary teachers to teach classroom music

Najwa M. Alhosani

Dr Najwa M. Alhosani is a university associate professor in Curriculum and Instruction. She is the vice dean at the College of Education at United Arab Emirates University. She received her...

Fajer M. Bin Rashed

Fajer M. Bin Rashed has 13 years’ experience teaching English as a second language at the tertiary level in Kuwait. Her previous teaching posts include at Australian University (formerly known...

A critical authenticity: Facilitating teacher self-articulation through poetic inquiry

Have you ever wondered what is in a teacher’s bag? The following is a ‘found’1 poem compiled from the chat transcript of one of the four online poetry workshops which formed a part of the...