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Anne Parfitt

Anne Parfitt is a research fellow in the School of Education at Bath Spa University. Anne’s research interests include the professional learning of early career teachers and the development of...

Social-emotional competences: Conceptualisation, childhood inequalities and predictive value for socioeconomic attainment in adulthood

The development of social and emotional competences is increasingly being recognised as essential for children’s adaptive development in school as well as in other settings and later life (OECD,...

Paul Taylor-McCartney

Paul Taylor-McCartney is deputy programme manager of the Cornwall school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) and QA support tutor for the Department for Education’s ITT expansion pilot...

Alison Glover

Alison Glover is the research associate for The Open University ITE Partnership PGCE programme in Wales. She has worked in outdoor education, the early years, and in the primary and secondary...

Pavla Boulton

Pavla Boulton is a senior lecturer in early years education at the University of South Wales. Pavla’s specialist interests include outdoor learning and play pedagogies; the collision between the...

Verity Jones

Verity Jones is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Verity leads the RESPECT team, and her research interests relate to social and environmental...

Mathew Jones

Mathew Jones is a primary subject tutor at the Open University in Wales and supports student teachers studying the part-time or salaried PGCE programme. Before joining the Open University, he was...

Why we need a manifesto on education for environmental sustainability

Our research commission, recently announced by BERA, will bring teachers and young people together to co-produce a manifesto on education for environmental sustainability. The manifesto will...

Is ‘lost learning’ the new crisis in education?

Concerns around lost learning have been a pervasive and recurrent theme of late – all of which can be traced back to the closing of schools over the past year in response to the Covid-19...

Yan Zhu

Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies

Yan is the ECR Regional Rep for the South East. Yan is a Lecturer in Education Studies at University College London. Yan was a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Programme Leader for MA...

Ingrid Schoon

Ingrid Schoon is chair of social policy at the Social Research Institute, University College London, Institute of Education. She is a fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and...

Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...