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Muna Albuloushi

Muna Albuloushi is a freelance researcher and academic writer graduated from the University of Exeter, Graduate School of Education. Her PhD thesis focused on teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and...

Methodologies don’t hurt people, bad people wielding methodologies do: Autoethnography and that paper from Qualitative Research

This blog is inspired by the recent controversy surrounding that paper published in Qualitative Research. The paper, titled ‘I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an...

Towards inclusivity in the mainstream classroom

Children and young people’s right to access an inclusive education is incontestable. Our systems in education, however, can present barriers to achieving this. I am the head of inclusion for a...

How experiences as a research participant inspired an explicit commitment to parents taking part in a doctoral research inquiry

I cannot remember how many research studies I have been involved in over the past 17 years. This is not because I am an established researcher – on the contrary! Rather, it is because my...

Adam Poole

Adam Poole is an assistant professor in international and comparative education in the Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Prior to becoming an academic, Adam taught...

ECER 2022, Yerevan and ECER plus

Education in a Changing World: The impact of global realities on the prospects and experiences of educational research The background to the organisation and hosting of...

Risk Assessment & Audit Committee: Call for New Members

We are actively seeking new members to apply to join BERA’s Risk Assessment and Audit Committee (RAAC). The role of RAAC is to maintain and update the risk register, ensuring it provides...

Adam Matthews

Adam Matthews is a lecturer in education, technology and society at the University of Birmingham. Adam works across both Engineering and Physical Sciences and Social Sciences at the university....

Gender diversity in the school workforce across the UK home nations

Due to the budgetary pressures of the 2008 financial crisis the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a public sector pay freeze in 2010. In 2013 the pay freeze was...

Carolyn M. Shields

Dr. Carolyn M. Shields, president of CCEAM, is currently a professor of educational leadership at Wayne State University, Detroit. Dr. Shields taught high school for 19 years before completing her...

Achieving mastery: Pupils’ perspectives on engaging with feedback and assessment in secondary school

Introduction  Assessment and feedback play a key role in pupils’ learning at all levels of education. However, there is much debate about whether feedback, in particular, is given in a way...