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How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...

Academic or practitioner? Border-crossings and close-to-practice research

My professional career started in the mid-1980s. It has involved a journey from school teaching into higher education: I have worked as a research fellow, lecturer, professor and university senior...

Nomadic enquiry: Reimagining research ethics for ‘posthuman’ times

Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Staffordshire)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Discussants: Dr Jane Rowley  and Sharon Inglis  BERA wants YOU if...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 1. Twitter, data collection & informed consent

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series begins by looking at the ethical issues that can arise when using social media as a means to recruit participants or gather data. To what extent are...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 2. Researcher wellbeing & international fieldwork

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s  Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the ethical issues that arise not only...

BERA Research Ethics Case Studies: 3. Anticipating the application & unintended consequences of practitioner research

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

This third entry in BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the unintended consequences of practitioner research – or, by extension, any research project that involves multiple...

You don’t understand us!

'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...

Is written informed consent always required for educational research?

While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.

Autumn 2019

New perspectives on international, intercultural and global education

Practical and useful research? First, sort out the theory

Researchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.