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Researching Gender & Sexuality in Educational Settings: An event for PGRs and ECRs

There has never been a more important time for educational research into gender and sexualities, with numerous emerging challenges and opportunities for educational researchers to engage with...

Sarah Parsons

Sarah Parsons is Professor of Autism and Inclusion in Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton, UK. Sarah has longstanding research interests in the educational experiences of...

The Russian war in Ukraine: The role of the education sector

This blog post is a summary of the discussion that took place during the recent BERA event dedicated to Ukraine: ‘The voice of Ukrainian Educational Research Association across borders or is...

BERA Council 2023 – Call for Applications

Could you be part of guiding BERA’s academic and strategic leadership? We are pleased to invite interested members to stand as candidates in the 2023 BERA Council Elections.  BERA Council has...

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If maths anxiety could talk: What do maths-anxious ex-pupils want to say to the teaching profession?

Having recently completed a small exploratory study (124 respondents) of the way that maths-anxious undergraduates in the UK make sense of their maths anxiety (MA), I was prompted to consider: had...

SIG Forum Meeting – Alternative Education

Join the Alternative Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...

Disabled students’ allowance: Enabling through degrees?

The disabled students’ allowance (DSA) is a grant designed to remove barriers and improve participation in higher education of students with disabilities. The objectives of the policy are...

The consequences of non-disclosure in higher education

Many individuals who have a disability, chronic illness and/or neurodivergence can decide what they disclose, be that whether or not they share that information or how much detail they provide...

Nothing about us without us: Urgent changes needed in HE inclusive practice to address widening participation failures

Widening participation (WP) has been a dominant discourse in education policy for more than 20 years. Its original and continued core aim has been to improve higher education (HE) participation of...

Editorial: A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging

On 25 May 2022, Plymouth Institute of Education ran an international webinar, ‘Matters of “access” and “disability”: exploring and affecting systemic and cultural change in and for...

A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging

This special issue of the BERA Blog aims to push higher education towards a new ecology that embraces the values and voices of disabled students, and places inclusion and equity at the forefront...