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Myth busting our curriculum: Enabling all to achieve

The island of Zanzibar where I was born was famous – or infamous – on two accounts: clove plantations and slavery. From the 17th century until 1909, spice plantations were worked by Black...

Deaf children and social wellbeing: The evolution of the special school for the deaf

Research has shown that deaf children experience disadvantage in the education system (Berry, 2017). This disadvantage is associated with a lack of tailored pedagogy, being educated in...

Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice

While we have seen a justified focus upon schools during the Covid-19 crisis, relatively little attention has been paid to how teacher-educators are adjusting their practice. In the UK in...

In Conversations with…Professor Usha Goswami

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) one of the 2020 John Nisbet fellows.

ECER 2020: Educational Research (Re)connecting Communities

The aim of the ‘European Educational Research Association’ (EERA) is to further high quality educational research for the benefit of education and society. The association’s activities,...

Meena Wood

Meena Kumari Wood FRSA, MBA; a former HMI (Ofsted) works across the British and International Education sectors. She held senior leadership positions in English schools and Further education...

Francis Gilbert

Senior lecturer in education

Dr Francis Gilbert was a teacher for 25 years in various UK state schools. He is the author of many books, including I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Analysis and Study Guide: Dr Jekyll...

Miranda Matthews

Head of the Centre for Arts and Learning

Dr Miranda Matthews lectures in art and education and is head of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths University of London. Miranda’s work at Goldsmiths has included being a tutor on...

HR Consultant

BERA has grown and developed in recent years and is now home to a large number of leading educational researchers. As part of the creation of the BERA office, staff were and are still employed by...

Employer engagement with schools in Wales

Many young people leaving school will at some point enter employment. It is, therefore, important to examine how employers engage with the future workforce within secondary schools. Businesses may...

Higher education beyond the lecture: Learning through the Inside-Out prison exchange programme

We know that ‘how’ students learn is as important as ‘what’ students learn, and this includes university undergraduates. In our discipline of criminology, students often arrive at our...

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research – presentations

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research

#principlesintopractice The presentations were drawn from those people who had either submitted abstracts on the topic for this event - Research into practice - or from the BERA strand that was...