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BERA Council Elections 2021 – Results Announced

Following a competitive and highly contested election comprising of worthy candidates for both the positions of Conference & Events (CEC) Chair and for ordinary Council members, we are delighted...

Hazel Bryan

Professor of Education and Dean of The School of Education and Professional Development

Hazel Bryan is Professor of Education and Dean of The School of Education and Professional Development. Hazel trained as a teacher in London and taught in schools for some ten years before joining...

Practitioner Research SIG Annual Meeting

Join the Practitioner Research SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021   This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...

‘The significant return to normality’: Back to school in England, but who is missing?

As part of the gradual lifting of lockdown measures in England, following the ‘second wave’ of the Covid-19 pandemic here, schools reopen wholesale today, 8 March 2021. For many parents and...

Iqra Din

Iqra Din is an undergraduate student on the education studies BSc at the School of Education, University of Bristol. She remains inspired by the work of Tariq Modood, and as such her interests...

Liam Eaves

Liam Eaves is an undergraduate student on the education studies BSc at the School of Education, University of Bristol. His interests include the decolonisation of the western curriculum, mental...

A (very) inconvenient truth?

At the beginning of January the prime minister claimed that reopening schools was safe and that the benefits of children being in school were ‘huge’ (BBC News, 2021). While educational...

Vanita Sundaram

Vanita Sundaram is Professor of Education at the University of York. Her research broadly covers gender and education, focusing more specifically on gender-based violence and teenagers; tackling...

Iram Siraj

Professor of Child Development and Education

Iram has an international reputation for longitudinal research and policy expertise, she has co-directed a number of influential studies, including the Effective Provision of Pre-school, Primary...

Becky Francis

Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation

Professor Becky Francis is Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation. She was previously Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), and prior roles include Professor of...

Jack Bryne Stothard

Jack Bryne Stothard is a Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Studies, Assistant Programme Leader for the Doctorate of Education, Teacher Education Research and Innovation Cluster lead and Ethics...

Is education a discipline?

In the most recent issue of Research Intelligence (#145), BERA president Dominic Wyse follows up his presidential address with a declaration that it is essential for education to be regarded as a...