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Summer 2019

How inclusive of children are our educational research methods? Research Intelligence issue 139: Marking 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child This special issue of Research...

The origins of further education in England and Wales

There is a lack of historical accounts of the further education (FE) sector in England and Wales, which is reflective of its broader historical-cultural positioning. FE sits between secondary...

Learning differently: new frontiers for community collaboration, agency and identity

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. Please join us for an interactive and dynamic...

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

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

speaker presentations: Abigail O’Brien Hatice Yildirim   Other events in this series: BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Wales) 29...

Having a secure and safe place to conduct the fieldwork: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

In this blog we consider the more logistical aspects of completing a PhD – namely, ensuring that you have a secure and safe place in which to conduct the fieldwork. We both feel strongly about...

The Future of Educational Research in Wales

This report, published by BERA in partnership with the Welsh Government, presents the proceedings of and lessons from the Future of Educational Research in Wales conference. Held in Cardiff on 14...

2019 Masters Dissertation Award Winner

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and...

2019 Doctoral Thesis Winner

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and...

English in Education – Curriculum and Assessment

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This one-day event provides a forum for...

BERA Bites, issue 3: Innovative methods for educational research

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

Different schools, same problem: What value teacher research and inquiry?

Robust school leadership is seen as the most effective route by which schools and outcomes for students can be achieved (Greany, 2015). But how does a headteacher of a school graded...

Understanding social transformation and school environments through social network analysis

Some decades ago, several studies advanced an unexpected answer to an age-old question: schools do not help students improve their social positions (see for example Coleman et al., 1966). This...