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#BlackLivesMatter in education

The sickening death of African-American George Floyd by suffocation at the hands of a White-American policeman has justifiably fuelled the force of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the world....

International students and Covid-19: What is the current advice?

The pandemic that has gripped the UK has meant that uncertainty becoming central to our way of life. With borders closed, migration curtailed and social distancing policies in place, this...

Religion and Sexuality Education: Where are we now?

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. In early 2019, a group of Muslim parents in Birmingham gathered to...

Decolonising the Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Learning

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. In advancing opportunities to expand upon discussions of the research...

Mental health and wellbeing in doctoral students from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds

There is a large body of evidence for the poor mental health of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in higher education settings (Peluso, Carleton, & Gordon, 2011), leading to the Higher...

Curriculum orientations and the inclusion of immigrant parents

‘Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice’, wrote Mark Priestley and Stavroula Philippou on BERA Blog earlier in 2019. What is taught in school, how curriculum...

Spring 2020

Decolonising the curriculum: Transnational perspectives  Research Intelligence issue 142 From the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the universities of Cape Town and (subsequently Oxford) to the...

Children’s awareness and understanding of conflict-related groups in divided education systems

Over 420 million children live in conflict-affected areas (Save the Children, 2019). Conflict greatly disrupts education, with long-lasting negative effects even after peace agreements are signed...

Birmingham: A land of Trojan horses?

Birmingham has had many ethnic communities settling among its population, leading to the city becoming ‘superdiverse’ (Rex & Moore, 1967; Vertovec, 2007). British Pakistani children are close...

Unexamined privilege and schools as sites of othering: Towards an ethics of commentary and debate

Despite years of monitoring and targets, the professional workforce of education, from early years to university, remains generally unrepresentative of the wider population that it serves, in...

Autumn 2019

New perspectives on international, intercultural and global education

Pere Ayling

Lecturer

Pere Ayling, Ph. D. is a lecturer and a researcher in the University of Suffolk (UOS), Ipswich, United Kingdom. Her areas of specialization include consumption, (in)equality, race, elite education...