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Martin Myers

Assistant Professor

Martin Myers is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. He is a sociologist whose work explores the lives and identities of marginalised communities. His...

Kalwant Bhopal

Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education

Kalwant’s research focuses on exploring how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalisation operate in White educational spaces. Her research has specifically been used to inform the...

John Preston

Professor of Sociology

John is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Leadership Fellow in Conflict, Crime and Security. John works on the sociology of...

Covid-19 and schooling for uncertainty

Covid-19 reveals an urgent need to focus on an area of worldwide educational significance: the importance for schools of engaging with uncertainty as a key facet of education. In recent decades, a...

Virtual teaching for children with dyslexia: The realities and disturbing absence of research

Covid-19, education and educational research

I am writing this post from both a parental and scientific perspective. Firstly, from a parental stance, SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent coronavirus 19 has undoubtedly driven us into situations that...

Virtual Event – The impact of Covid 19 on the mental health and wellbeing of education professionals, pupils and young people

Richard Harris

R Harris is a Professor of Education at the University of Reading’s Institute of Education. Their main area of teaching is in the field of history education and teacher education. In addition,...

Liz Zsargo

Senior Lecturer in Primary Education

I joined Huddersfield University in 2014 as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, with nearly twenty five years of experience working in education. A former primary headteacher, I have worked in...

Suzanne Culshaw

Dr Suzanne Culshaw is a part-time Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Hertfordshire, where she held a PhD scholarship. Her doctoral research explored what it means to be...

Agility, return and recovery: Our new Covid context for schooling and teacher education?

Covid-19, education and educational research

Previously on the BERA blog (Kidd, 2020a) I have drawn attention to the work of Glade Primary School, an east-London school in the borough of Redbridge, England, and their ‘agile’ adoption of...

Ethics-in-practice in fragile contexts: The value of the CERD ethical appraisal framework

Educational research in fragile contexts At a time when unprecedented numbers of people across the world are experiencing forced migration, there is an urgent and critical imperative to develop...

Rebecca Webb

Rebecca Webb is an education lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex. She is co-director of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth....