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Practitioner Research Highlights at Twilight

This event acts as an opportunity for the Practitioner Research SIG to meet and hear about the latest work being undertaken by practitioners in an encouraging and supportive environment. We are...

Judy Durrant

Principal Lecturer

Judy Durrant teaches, supervises and examines across a range of postgraduate programmes at Canterbury Christ Church University and chairs the Research Ethics Committee for the Faculty of Arts,...

David Littlefair

Dr David Littlefair is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, UK. He specialises...

Amanda Powling

Before joining London Met in 2013 Amanda taught French, German and Spanish in secondary schools mainly in Essex and London for many years. In the past she has worked with the Open University as a...

Christine Lewis

Dr Christine Lewis is the MA Education Programme Leader at Edge Hill University. Her PhD study used autoethnography a critically reflexive methodology which has directly enriched her expertise in...

Richard Holme

Lecturer

Richard Holme is a Reader in Education Studies at the University of Dundee. His areas of specialism include primary education, STEM subjects, and curriculum innovation. Richard’s main area of...

Elizabeth Hoult

Dr Elizabeth Hoult is Professor of Education at Northumbria University. Here interests include resilience in education, adult and community education as ways of nurturing hopeful futures and the...

Matthew Martinez

Research Fellow

Matthew Martinez is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, where they are involved in a research project focussed on the current climate for teacher education within higher education and how...

Interview with BERA John Nisbet Fellowship 2021 Recipient Neil Mercer

In this weeks episode BERA President Dominic Wyse interviews the John Nisbet Fellowship recipient Neil Mercer. Neil is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, where he is...

New series of the BERA podcast

This autumn we have launched a new series of the BERA podcast. Over the next few weeks we will continue to feature emerging research which connects to policy and practice.  Already we have...

Learning to be alone: How positive solitude can benefit international students

International students experience loneliness regularly when living and studying abroad (Wawera & MacCamley, 2020), and the situation appears to have worsened during the pandemic. Since loneliness...

Covid-19 school closures, working from home and family challenges: A novel solution

Covid-19 presented a set of challenges for UK universities, and where ‘business as usual’ was expected, staff working practices intensified. The impact of this has not been equal, with the...