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Encouraging inclusion of at-risk students through co-op video games

Every day, teachers face challenges with including students who are inactive participants in the classroom. Such challenges may involve social difficulties – such as shyness, disruptive...

2019 BERA Masters and Doctoral Awards Now Open

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...

Did socially engaged students make more cognitive contribution?

According to a report prepared for the Higher Education Funding Council for England, online and distance courses have increased significantly in the UK over the past decade; a survey by the UK's...

From here to home: A small note on PhDscapes

In 2014, when I started my PhD at the University of Huddersfield about globalisation and higher education in Vietnam, I found myself thinking, ‘Why do I need to go halfway around the world to do...

BERJ Editors’ Choice Award 2018

The editorial team of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and BERA and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award, recognising articles published...

Netnography: exploring ‘innovative’ approaches to research

My PhD focusses on how online teacher-learning communities may support professional development, and as a relatively new researcher I was aware that, to address the subject, I needed to build my...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Stirling)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

  Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.   Discussants: Dr. Dalene Swanson, Dr....

Students experience empowerment and empathy through pedagogical partnership

Student empowerment can take many forms. Some, such as new student activism and student consumerism, can feel threatening to faculty and higher education communities. Others offer a...

Early Career Researchers in Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning (Bedford)

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This event is designed to support early career...

WISERD Annual Conference 2018

The theme for the WISERD Annual Conference is "Addressing inequalities and injustice" and it promises to provide colleagues from across the academic, policy, public, private, and third...

Early Career Researchers in Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning (Birmingham)

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This event is designed to support early career...

Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Fifty years after Stanley Kubrick introduced cinemagoers to HAL9000, the prospect of a robot-infused world still feels more science fiction than social fact. Yet robots are steadily beginning to...