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Xuechun Huang

Xuechun Huang is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Education, University of Leeds. She was the leader of the website management team and was on the media team at the BAAL Vocab SIG...

Hongyi Zhao

Hongyi Zhao is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Education, University of Leeds. He was the leader of the second-day registration team, and was on the hospitality team and...

Elina Stylianou

Elina Stylianou is a student development coach at the University of Leeds, supporting students at the Faculty of Social Sciences to thrive academically. She has a PhD in TESOL – she designed and...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Higher Education

The aim of the Higher Education special interest group is to contribute towards and enhance critical debates and perspectives on higher education policy, pedagogy and practice. This is a broad...

A question of identity: To be a musician or a music teacher?

This blog post reports on current and ongoing research into the identity of classroom music teachers and, in particular, whether the teachers think of themselves more as musicians who teach...

Chris Dalladay

Chris Dalladay, now retired, has been the lead tutor for the secondary music initial teacher training programmes at the University of East London along with the Assessment Only Route to gaining...

BERA Announces the 2025 Academic Citizen of the Year

The BERA Academic Citizen of the Year is an award intended to recognise a colleague working in educational research who has made a significant contribution to the discipline as a whole and the...

Presidential Seminar Series – Anti-racist education in Northern Ireland: Progress, Problems and Prospects

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

On Tuesday 4th November 2025, the BERA Presidential Seminar Series will hold an online event to focus Northern Ireland. During a period of significant educational transformation, and in the...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

Presidential Seminar Series – Anti-racist education in Northern Ireland: Progress, Problems and Prospects

On Tuesday 4th November 2025, the BERA Presidential Seminar Series held an online event focusing on Northern Ireland. During a period of significant educational transformation, and in the context...

A decade of grade inflation boosted by the Covid-19 pandemic: An empirical analysis of a top European university

Higher education is currently experiencing contrasting trends. First, academic performance prior to university entry is declining: the PISA 2022 results highlight a ‘decade-long decline’...

Kristof De Witte

Kristof De Witte is a full professor in Education Economics and Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he holds the chair in ‘Effectiveness and...