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Heidi Long

Heidi Long is a partnership coordinator at the University of Exeter, managing primary school relations for the PGCE programme. She is currently completing a Master’s-level apprenticeship in...

Ann Keane-Maher

Principal

Ann Keane-Maher is a highly experience Head teacher with over 40 years’ experience in schools across the country. She started her teaching career in 1980 and spent 17 years teaching English and...

Education: An academic discipline or a field?

What is the problem? Education research has periodically been sharply criticised for being weak in comparison with research from other disciplines. Some of this criticism has implied, or...

Joanna Merrett

EYPS Researcher

Joanna is a researcher for The Centre for Social Mobility at Exeter University. As well as being a Home Education Consultant and Early Years Teacher. Most recently conducting the biggest survey of...

Kylie Peppler

Kylie Peppler is an associate professor of informatics and education at the University of California, Irvine and director of the Creativity Labs. Her current scholarly interests include theorising...

How could coaching and mentoring be re-imagined by teacher educators to support Initial Teacher Trainees (ITTs) and Early Career Teachers (ECT) in the new normal returning to schools during Covid-19?

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #TeacherEd&Development Online event – pre-registration essential With Covid -19,  education...

Could Dido Harding move into education next?

Dido Harding was appointed as a Conservative peer (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) by then prime minister David Cameron in 2014. She is head of the NHS test and trace programme, and has been...

#BlackLivesMatter in education: How can a hashtag help us understand exclusion inequalities in English schools?

The publicised deaths of Black people across the United States sparked a worldwide movement of protest against the historical inequalities and marginalisation experienced within the Black...

#BlackLivesMatter: Black female professionals’ experiences in the workplace

The devastating death of George Floyd, the Covid-19 pandemic, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #TheSchoolThatTriedToEndRacism have excavated and highlighted various inequalities within our...

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

This special issue of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...

Cultural capital in non-White majority schools: A critical exploration of cultural ethos and pedagogy

Embodied cultural capital includes the artistic, religious, social and historical inheritance of non-White students. Cultural pedagogy and ethos is defined as the institution’s ‘official’...

Editorial: Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

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 further...