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Isabel Kempner

Isabel Kemper received a judges commendation for the 2021 Masters Dissertation Award for her dissertation “School Councils: Democratic forums or exclusive clubs”. The abstract for her...

BERA Bites, issue 6: Researching education & mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

BERA Bites

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. Even before the Covid-19 crisis hit, there was...

Wendy Mendez Lumley

Wendy Mendez Lumley is a maths tutor at Ruskin College in the UK. She is a qualified teacher with experience in early years and primary education as a generalist, and currently teaches numeracy...

John Essington

John Essington is a professor of education at Blackburn College in the United States. He previously taught secondary school history and government. Dr Essington is a fellow of the Royal Society of...

Nancy Stewart

Nancy Stewart is a skilled teacher, consultant and trainer with nationally recognised expertise in early years development and learning, and quality improvement in teaching and provision. She has...

Tom Burns

Tom Burns is Senior Lecturer and University Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Professional and Educational Development (CPED) at London Metropolitan University, developing innovations with a...

Sandra Sinfield

Sandra Sinfield is Senior Lecturer and University Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Professional and Educational Development (CPED) at London Metropolitan University, a co-author of Teaching,...

Conducting research during the pandemic using an ‘ethics of care’

The Covid-19 pandemic has created economic and social instability for many people in Britain and around the world. As such, we might consider it an experience of ‘collective trauma’, combining...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care

With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being used by early adopters we argue that now is a good time to focus on revisiting the function of Early Childhood Education and Care...

Book Launch: Social theory and the politics of higher education: critical perspectives on institutional research

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register.   #BERA_SocialTheory @BERANews This session will launch a new edited collection pertaining to...

Tenneisha Nelson

Tenneisha Nelson holds a PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Saskatchewan. Her areas of research are leadership theory and practice, school leadership and the principalship,...

How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...