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KEYNOTE: BERA Keynote Lecture – Presidential Address Championing educational research: BERA’s past in the present and leadership for the future

At the BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting, Dr Marlon Moncrieffe assumed the BERA Presidency and delivered a powerful keynote address  titled "Championing Educational Research: BERA’s...

Schooling in a ‘divided’ city: Exploring reparative justice in education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) project explores the geographic production of injustices in primary school education in the city of Bristol, England. We consider how ‘geographic...

The extreme tipping point of disadvantage: Decolonial approaches to understand persistent gaps

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Across North America and the United Kingdom, children attending schools in urban, low-income, ethnically enriched neighbourhoods continue to experience significantly lower academic achievement in...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Amplifying the invisible, the overlooked and marginalised: Methods that support children in sharing their lived experiences of racism

For social justice to emerge, society must re-focus on whose voices are heard. If you are a researcher who does not belong to the marginalised group you are working with, it can be challenging to...

Autumn 2024

Research Intelligence issue 160: Democracy & education

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

BERA Bites, issue 10: Employability education – learning from the present: A cross-sector view

BERA Bites

In an era characterised by rapid technological advancements, globalisation and shifting labour market dynamics, the concept of employability has emerged as a central concern in education. As...

How can we simultaneously tackle the educational objectives of employability and social justice?

Employability has become a key metric for higher education institutions (HEIs) in the 21st century. For example, the Office for Students (OfS), the regulator of higher education provision in...

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...

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...

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...