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Exploring the impact of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) evidence in informing the teaching environment and practice

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research

A case study of an Independent school catering for students with autism in the English West Midlands region. Registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk if you want...

What! No face-to-face contact with participants? What are the alternatives?

This episode of the BERA podcast discusses data collection solutions to the unprecedented challenges presented during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Lindsay Ibbotson

Honorary Research Fellow

First Thing Music – Project Lead, a randomised control trial, funded in 2018/19 by the Education Endowment Foundation and the Royal Society for the Arts, that investigated the impact of daily...

#BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in education: Contribute to a special series of the BERA Blog

The structural inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities have been deepened by a decade of austerity. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and, following yet another...

Framing research: Participatory research approaches in early years education

On 14 February 2020, at the BERA ECR Network Symposium, my presentation focussed on participatory research in early childhood education. Having worked for a number of years in an early childhood...

Positioning children with a vision impairment as knowledge producers and change agents

‘The ability to collaborate on both a small- and large-scale is becoming one of the core requisites of postmodern society’ (Fullan, 1993, p.5). Yet it is ‘still relatively rare for children...

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

The BERA Early Career Researcher Network planned a series of events throughout 2020 on the theme, ‘Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research’, with the...

Storying identities, experiences and agency of graduate teaching assistants

‘Have you thought about including recordings of these stories as part of your thesis? It’s just that reading them out loud was really powerful for those of us listening.’ I stopped. To be...

BERA ECR Network symposium: A personal reflection on constructive feedback

In October 2019 I travelled to the US to explore the benefits of oracy-centred teaching strategies and expeditionary learning for the development of the speaking, listening, reading and writing...

Editorial: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

In February of this year, the University of Sheffield hosted its second BERA ECR Network symposium. Targeted at early-career researchers (ECRs), master’s and doctoral students, the symposium...

Michael Eggleton

Deputy Headteacher

My experience: Over recent years I have been supporting schools and the Department for Education in creating whole school approaches to positive mental health. I have led courses, seminars and...

Verity Campbell-Barr

Verity Campbell-Barr is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies and Associate Director for Research at Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth. Verity has over 15 years...