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Nelson Mandela famously stated: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ But to weaponise education for change, people from all backgrounds must be able...
Continue reading blog postScience is often celebrated as the ultimate meritocracy. But while scientific Truth may be objective, the process of discovery is deeply influenced by who gets to participate in it. For too long,...
Continue reading blog postConducting ethical research in war zones is a challenging yet crucial endeavour, especially when viewed as a practice of freedom. Existing scholarship on research ethics in conflict zones...
Continue reading blog postThe number of students who identify as disabled attending higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has significantly increased over the past decade. According to recent data from the Higher...
Continue reading blog postRacism is a shapeshifter that adapts to silence minoritised ethnic voices, unless it is continually made visible. Race research therefore needs continuous development to challenge pervasive...
Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022). Though...
Continue reading blog postResearch Intelligence issue 164: Education in prisons: Generating hope, escaping stereotypes
This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...
Continue reading blog postA 5a edição das Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação da BERA foi revisada e atualizada para permitir que os pesquisadores conduzam seu trabalho de acordo com os mais altos padrões...
As researchers in higher education (HE) we find ourselves interested in the ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ (SoTL) (Felton, 2013). While difficult to pin-down, SoTL is both ‘field’...
Continue reading blog postBERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 166 of Research Intelligence on the theme of Higher Education: Opportunities and...
I am sure most colleagues can relate to the assertion that before Covid-19, most undergraduate students did not attend ‘office hour’. Post-pandemic, that number has declined, and the one’s...
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