BERJ Early Career Reviewer Scheme: Call for mentors
The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is pleased to launch its Early Career Reviewer Scheme that aims to build early career researchers’ capacities in academic peer reviewing. This...
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Inspiring Black students’ futures? Focus on agency
Increased participation and student diversity have led universities in the UK to enhance their academic support mechanisms to promote social and learning inclusion (Hallett, 2012). While...
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Personal tutoring: A catalyst for equity and an antidote to the racial awarding gap?
Despite racially minoritised students entering UK-based higher education with similar entry qualifications to their white counterparts, they are more likely to leave the university with a lower...
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Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)
The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...
Young people’s mental health and wellbeing in the age of austerity and Covid-19: Are we all in this together?
Mental health difficulties in young people have been on the rise for over a decade now. In the past three years, the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare in England has...
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The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice
Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice
Editorial: Doing cynefin: Exploring ideas on belonging, connectedness and community in the Curriculum for Wales
Wales is a small country that is distinctive in its landscape, culture and language. This gives the notion of place a particular resonance in Wales and reinforces the significance of local...
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Doing cynefin: Exploring ideas on belonging, connectedness and community in the Curriculum for Wales
Wales is a small country that is distinctive in its landscape, culture and language. This gives the notion of place a particular resonance in Wales and reinforces the significance of local...
Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning (DARPL): Establishing anti-racist education, through the lens of cynefin
It is clear that cynefin/belonging lies at the heart of the Curriculum for Wales and is at the core of DARPL. As a result, a sense of cynefin for Welsh learners and educators is a powerful...
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Do I finally feel a sense of cynefin?
The Curriculum for Wales defines cynefin as ‘the place where we belong, where the people and landscape around us are familiar, and the sights and sounds are reassuringly recognisable’. My...
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Race, racism and hope
In August 2023, I became the inaugural recipient of the BERA Equality in Education Award in recognition of my race equity work in education. In this blog post I reflect on how race and racism have...
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Degrees of difference: Exploring degree-award gaps
At the BERA Conference 2023 our symposium was the first to examine attainment disparities in racially minoritised university students. Four papers showed how interpersonal relationships,...
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