SIG Meet & Discuss: Social Justice
Come and join the Social Justice SIG to discuss and plan activities for the next academic year. You will have the opportunity to suggest ideas we can work on in the future. We will also make sure...
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2025 BERA 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...
Literacy and Language SIG Convenor Vacancy
The BERA Literacy and Language SIG has an opening for a convenor. This SIG aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in a range of areas related to the development of languages...
How foresight can help us plan the schools of tomorrow
Education policy debates often centre on the immediate: what can be achieved within a political term, or what’s feasible in response to a current crisis. But the future of education will be...
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Anne Louise Rowan
Dr Anne Rowan has over 15 years’ of experience working in the education sector. Her career began as Post Primary English teacher, before progressing into roles in higher education, including...
Opening the black box of evidence, urgently
The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...
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BERA Conference 2025
The 2025 BERA Conference was held 9th-11th September 2025 at the University of Sussex. Attended by over 1,000 delegates. Keynote speakers included: Dianne Gereluk and Alison Philips.
BERA Conference 2025
In this ongoing blog series, presenters and prize winners from BERA Conference 2025 will share insights from the research they present at the event. The series gives presenters the opportunity to...
Pre-Conference Workshop: Collage as method of research inquiry
The term ‘collage’ derives from the French verb coller which means ‘to stick’ and refers to ‘the process of cutting and sticking found materials onto a flat surface’ (Butler-Kisber,...
Nonresident fathers’ contribution to their children’s social competence in early childhood
Divorce and nonmarital childbearing have become increasingly common, leading to more children growing up with a father who lives elsewhere (Sheffield & Winship, 2020). This shift raises important...
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Initial teacher education: Current directions in times of global disruption
Teacher shortages, political instability, emerging global crises and the aftermath of the pandemic have created significant pressure on education systems across the world. In response, initial...
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Education in prisons across England and Wales: Towards a future framework for effective learning spaces
What could learning spaces in prison be like? This question has guided our reflective research process, prompting us to reflect critically on existing practice and to create an emerging framework...
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