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Jane Pither

Jane Pither has worked in financial settings, mostly educational, throughout her career, spanning roles in the private and public sectors. She is a Life Member of the Institute of Chartered...

Problematising resilience during times of change

As we move into the post-pandemic world, one word is becoming increasingly prevalent as a measure of people’s preparedness: resilience. Within a populist paradigm, the ability to ‘bounce...

Yang Hu

Senior Lecturer

Yang Hu is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge (October 2015). His research focuses on...

Deirdre Duffy

Dr Deirdre Niamh Duffy is a Reader in Critical Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specialises in feminist theory, political organising, and evaluation research. Her monograph...

Bianca J. Baldridge

Associate Professor

Bianca J. Baldridge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As a sociologist of education, Bianca’s scholarship...

The role of hybrid learning spaces in enhancing higher education students’ employability

Student-derived data remains a source of university intelligence and an arbiter of national quality assessment. But survey fatigue among students poses an enduring challenge as it can result in...

In Conversations with…Professor Ian Menter

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Ian Menter (Unviersity of Oxford) one of the 2020 John Nisbet Fellows.

As “PE With Joe Wicks” comes to an end, a BERA Blog highlights the marginalisation of PE within the Curriculum

In a BERA Blog this week,Julie Stirrup, Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford, Jo Harris,Ash Casey and Lorraine Cale from Loughborough University argue that the marginalisation of PE within the...

Rebecca Crutchley

Rebecca Crutchley is a senior lecturer in early childhood studies at the University of East London (UEL), and is the early childhood and special education programme leader. Her research interests...

The thin line between gaming and learning

When we went into ‘lockdown’ because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and were denied access to face-to-face education, educators had to swiftly improvise. By transferring existing educational...

‘PE’ with Joe (Bloggs): The rise and risks of celebrity ‘teachers’

Long before Covid-19 altered the way learning and teaching takes place, the subject of physical education (PE) was somewhat marginalised in the school curriculum. Within the UK, as elsewhere,...

Aspa Baroutsis

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Aspa Baroutsis (PhD) is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Education. She is known nationally for her research in media sociology, focused on portrayals of teachers, teaching, and...