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BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

The BERA Conference 2023 was held on the 12th-14th September 2023 at Conference Aston/Aston University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. The conference ended with three...

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education

BERA Conference 2023

In the decade before the first Covid-19 lockdown, the numbers of children deregistered from school to begin home education increased annually (ADCS, 2021). Concomitantly – as noted by Ofsted...

Widening participation in higher education: Reforming infographics beyond the visual through the eyes of sports coaching students

BERA Conference 2023

In this blog post, I explore the value of infographics beyond their visual aspect for widening participation students. The post draws on my PhD research, which focuses on the value of infographics...

Images from the edges

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Girls’ experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion

BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...

SIG Forum Meeting – Alternative Education

Join the Alternative Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...

Poirot couldn’t solve this one on his own: Inclusive education for the most vulnerable

In her recent BERA Blog post Margaret Mulholland (2022) asserts that truly inclusive education involves the ability to think like a detective. To be truly responsive to the needs of children and...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic world

Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. The landscape of Alternative Provision (AP) has increasingly diversified and evolved across the four...

The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges

In this interactive seminar, the SIG welcomes Dr Andy Malcolm, Senior Lecturer in the Childhood and Youth Studies (University of Bedfordshire), to share the findings from his recent work on...

The ‘shadow education’ phenomenon

In research, educational services such as private tutoring, coaching and academic enrichment classes that operate outside formal educational institutions (such as schools) are commonly referred to...

‘To fit in at school, you have to be a robot’: Do care farms offer a viable alternative?

In a recent and yet-to-be-published qualitative study, I explored the possible contribution of care farming (the therapeutic use of farming practices) to young people’s engagement with learning....