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In the 21st century, working in a university is a demanding and complex job. The expectations of academic staff are numerous. We are required to publish world-leading research outputs, and our...
Continue reading blog postThe mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...
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...
‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...
Continue reading blog postThis research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...
Continue reading blog postCatherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...
Continue reading blog postRecent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....
Continue reading blog postI am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the BERA Council representing BERA members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...
Continue reading blog postClimate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within BERA itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed....
As educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...
Continue reading blog postGeologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
Continue reading blog postAt the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
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