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BERA-CERA Academic Publishing Webinar Series 2021

The BERA-CERA Academic Publishing Webinar Series 2021 are targeted at PGRs and ECRs who are relatively new to the ‘Academic Publications World’ and who lack experiences in academic publishing...

Covid-19: Transitioning back to school

Government decisions made during Covid-19 resulted in the closure of many schools, forcing  teachers to move online to ensure that students continued their studies. Described as ‘emergency...

Book seminar – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives

Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives, edited by SIG convenors Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Rowena Passy, has been well received and is...

Molly Hucker

Youth Climate Activist

Molly is a nineteen year old climate activist based in South Wales. Molly first got involved in environmentalism having been inspired by Greta Thunberg. Her activism mainly focuses on climate...

Judy Ling Wong CBE

Honorary President

Judy is a painter, poet and environmentalist, best known as the Honorary President of Black Environment Network (BEN). For 27 years she was the UK Director of BEN, with an international reputation...

The new model music curriculum: A step far enough?

In the foreword to the new model music curriculum, schools minister Nick Gibb states that it ‘is designed to assist rather than to prescribe’ (DfE, 2021, p. 2). Notably, there is much detail...

The BERA ECR Network presents: Beyond the orthodoxies: Alternative concepts and tools for research

This episode of the BERA Podcast is part of a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. Here, Dr Sin Wang Chong interviews Elke Van dermijnsbrugge about...

Jonathan Harris

Dr Jonathan Harris is a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement, Stranmillis University College, Belfast. In the past two years he has co-authored a number of...

Crystal Magotra

Crystal Magotra is currently working as a research assistant at the Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad on a project funded by Facebook focusing on entrepreneurial education. Her...

Children and Childhoods SIG Convenor Vacancy

BERA invites expressions of interest from those who would like to act as a convenor for the BERA Children and Childhoods SIG. The aim of Children and Childhoods SIG is to explicate, develop, and...

The role of schools in the mental health of children & young people

This report presents a comprehensive review of the existing evidence on school-based approaches to mental health. It covers what is meant by mental health and wellbeing, and why this is...

Improving the connectivity of research on teaching assistants: Creating a new space for researchers

The international drive towards the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream schools has become contingent on the creation and utilisation of a paraprofessional...