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Summer 2025

Research Intelligence issue 163: (Re)shaping the future of research in further education: Opportunities, barriers & beyond

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Thinking it through or thinking through ‘it’? The ethics of research involving artificial intelligence and education

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study considers some of the ethical issues related to research involving artificial intelligence and education. It highlights balancing the need for data with obligations to protect...

BERA celebrates 10 years of the BERA Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

From the secondary classroom to semi-structured interviews: How teaching practices can inform research methods

If teachers are to continue developing their classroom practice, we need them to take risks. Very little research has considered teachers’ attitudes to voluntary risk-taking; which activities...

The role of place in educational disadvantage

Place matters to education. It’s role in disadvantage is evident from long-standing geographies of inequality in England’s educational outcomes. Research institutes such as the Educational...

Enhancing sustainable tourism education using game-based learning tools

In the ever-evolving field of tourism education, innovative approaches are essential to prepare students for the intricate challenges of sustainable tourism development, such as overconsumption of...

Advancing pedagogic research across disciplines: Innovations, challenges and best practice

Knowledge construction through research is central to every university. The implications associated with research are numerous and can vary among individuals and institutions. Some commonly shared...

Editorial: Advancing pedagogic research across disciplines: Innovations, challenges and best practice

Knowledge construction through research is central to every university. The implications associated with research are numerous and can vary among individuals and institutions. Some commonly shared...

A suite of pedagogic research support: The Octopus

Providing pedagogic research support is critical because integrating pedagogic research into teaching practice is neither automatic nor effortless (Stierer & Antoniou, 2004). Existing literature...

Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? Handwritten and typed exams compared

With the increased adoption of technologies, the use of electronic examination scripts is gradually becoming the norm and is likely to replace the traditional handwritten ones in universities...

Research-practice partnerships: Implications for REF 2029

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) – a UK-wide assessment of research quality, which informs the allocation of approximately £2 billion per year of public funding for...

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029: Threat or opportunity for early career researchers?

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

For early career researchers (ECRs), REF 2029 represents a challenge but also an opportunity to position and shape their scholarly activity in the short and medium term. In this blog post, we...