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Stephen J Ball

Professor Stephen J Ball is emeritus professor of sociology of education at the UCL Institute of Education. His main areas of interest are in education policy analysis and social theory: –...

Jonathan Haber

Jonathan Haber is an educational researcher, writer and consultant whose work spans K-12 and higher education. His Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, which involved trying to learn the...

COVID-19

BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...

Semiotics, memory and augmented reality: History education with learner-generated augmentation

I recently had the privilege of collaborating with a student-teacher (a teacher-in-training) on a pedagogical approach which leverages some of the affordances of augmented reality (AR). As a...

BERA Publications Committee: Call for new members

We are pleased to announce the call for new members to apply to join BERA’s Publications Committee. Apply now The closing date for submissions of interest is Thursday 28 May 2020. Committee...

Kenneth Lim

Kenneth Y. T. Lim is one of about a dozen people worldwide to have been invited by Unesco as a member of the organisation’s inaugural Symposium on the Future of Education for Sustainable...

Ryan Lim

Ryan Lim is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at the National Institute of Education of Singapore and is training to become a history teacher at the secondary school level. He is...

‘Student voice’ in lockdown

In an article published in the British Educational Research Journal just before lockdown, ‘Student voice in higher education: Opening the loop’ (Young & Jerome, 2020), we explored some narrow...

Social constructivism and participative learning beyond bricks and mortar

Covid-19, education and educational research

As the world grapples with the short-to-longer-term imperative to identify distance- and remote-learning alternatives to previously face-to-face instruction, I am struck that some of the key...

Helen Young

Dr Helen Young is an Associate Professor in Education at London South Bank University and conducts research in sociology of education, particularly education policy. She explores ideas of...

School transition, socioeconomic inequalities in wellbeing and the Covid-19 pandemic

Covid-19, education and educational research

Children’s education and wellbeing are profoundly influenced by the circumstances into which they are born. Being from a wealthier family is associated with a range of positive outcomes. Poverty...

BERA response to UKRI Open Access consultation

BERA has submitted its response to the current UKRI consultation on its proposed open access (OA) policy. The full response can be found below. As with previous open access interventions, BERA...