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Usha Goswami

Prior to moving to Cambridge in January 2003, Usha Goswami was Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She received her Ph.D....

Educational Technology – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The purpose of the Educational Technology SIG is to provide a meeting place for BERA members interested in the application and impact of new technologies in education across...

Ian Menter

University of Oxford

Ian is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At OUDE he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Before moving to Oxford, Ian was Professor...

2020 BERA Council Elections

Following a very competitive election, we are delighted to announce the outcome of the 2020 BERA Elections. The election for Council was highly competitive and three candidates have been...

Collaborative composition and touchscreen technology in the classroom

The opportunity to make music together is an important strand of every child’s education, fuelling creative, expressive and social development. A recent report by the Musicians’ Union (2019)...

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her interests concern studying education from the...

Tender: A literature review to understand the structures and processes that influence research activities in the UK

One strand of BERA’s work historically has been a role in charting the state of educational research in the UK. For example, the BERA Observatory (Oancea and Mills, 2015) which was an initiative...

Literacy and Language – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Members of this SIG have interests in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural studies and multi-modality (the...

A real, immersive and purposeful curriculum

In a primary school context of nine academies in the West Midlands, our curriculum framework is underpinned by theories from John Dewey’s 20th-century approach to project-based learning (PBL)....

Lisa Worgan

Lisa Worgan is currently the head of curriculum and innovation for Victoria Academies Trust, a primary-led academy chain in the West Midlands. For the last six years, Lisa has been responsible for...

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The aim of the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (CAP) SIG is to encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum,...

The PGCE journey: Wellbeing and workload

The PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract...