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Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? Handwritten and typed exams compared

With the increased adoption of technologies, the use of electronic examination scripts is gradually becoming the norm and is likely to replace the traditional handwritten ones in universities...

Enhancing sustainable tourism education using game-based learning tools

In the ever-evolving field of tourism education, innovative approaches are essential to prepare students for the intricate challenges of sustainable tourism development, such as overconsumption of...

Research-practice partnerships: Implications for REF 2029

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) – a UK-wide assessment of research quality, which informs the allocation of approximately £2 billion per year of public funding for...

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029: Threat or opportunity for early career researchers?

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

For early career researchers (ECRs), REF 2029 represents a challenge but also an opportunity to position and shape their scholarly activity in the short and medium term. In this blog post, we...

BJET Call for Special Section proposals

The BJET call for Special Section proposals, for publication in the latter half of 2026, is now open for submissions with a deadline of 31 March 2025. Please submit proposals using the online...

The Curriculum Journal: Call for Associate Editors

This call has now closed. The Curriculum Journal (CJ), published by the British Educational Research Association (BERA), specialises in publishing original contributions to the study of...

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop on participatory research spaces at the BERA 2024 conference: Insights and practical examples of researching with youth co-researchers

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop that I facilitated at the 2024 BERA Conference, had developed through years of research working alongside children and young people as co-researchers. The...

From compliance to conversation: New guidelines push for ethical reflection in research reporting

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Academic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public. Scholarly...

Editorial: Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

Autoethnography holds significant relevance as a methodology in social justice work within educational research and practice (Boylorn, 2006; Ellis, 2002; Skousen, 2022). It is defined as a...

Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

In April and July of 2023, the BERA Social Justice special interest group (SIG) held an event titled ‘Beyond “Navel-gazing”: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change’. This event brought...

Narrating self, narrating us: Autoethnography in Black women’s storytelling

Telling stories has been part of my upbringing since birth. My Jamaican immigrant grandparents used stories to shape my identity, build character, and share their histories – stories of arriving...

Ripple effects: From the ‘auto’ to wider narratives of social purpose

Historically, self-reflective work has been disparaged as narcissistic or uncritical. In this blog post, I outline two ways, drawn from my own research and practice, in which starting from an...