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Branching Out: Mobilising community assets to support the mental health and wellbeing of children in primary schools

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Children's mental health is a pressing concern, with recent data suggesting 18 per cent of children aged 7–16 years in England have been diagnosed as having a probable mental health disorder...

Harnessing the power of poetry in academic research – the author’s use of poetry as a tool for analysis

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

This blog post focuses on my approach to using poetry as an analytical tool in a recent empirical study. There is an exciting body of research highlighting the potential for incorporating poetry...

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Negotiating power, participation and dissent with young-researchers in community dissemination

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study considers the ethical issues that can arise when conducting participatory research with young people. It highlights the nuanced nature of participation preferences and the ethical...

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Watch your language: Ethical issues when working with young people – meaning and power

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study explores ethical issues that arise for researchers working with young people. This includes the right of young people to contribute their experiences and opinions in a way that...

The extreme tipping point of disadvantage: Decolonial approaches to understand persistent gaps

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Across North America and the United Kingdom, children attending schools in urban, low-income, ethnically enriched neighbourhoods continue to experience significantly lower academic achievement in...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Amplifying the invisible, the overlooked and marginalised: Methods that support children in sharing their lived experiences of racism

For social justice to emerge, society must re-focus on whose voices are heard. If you are a researcher who does not belong to the marginalised group you are working with, it can be challenging to...

Autumn 2024

Research Intelligence issue 160: Democracy & education

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

Research with children: Ethical dilemmas regarding practice in the Chinese context

In 2023, as research assistants, we were involved in a project led by Dr Zhu Yan entitled ‘Tackling Ethical Challenges in Research with Children: Contextualizing Children’s Rights in China’....

BERA Bites, issue 10: Employability education – learning from the present: A cross-sector view

BERA Bites

In an era characterised by rapid technological advancements, globalisation and shifting labour market dynamics, the concept of employability has emerged as a central concern in education. As...

Can data generation with children be democratic?

The widely cited United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the importance of children’s rights, including their freedom of expression (article 13). Research and policy...