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Social theory, educational research and polycrisis

Following Covid-19's acute phase, educational researchers/practitioners have been forced to reconsider their work, cultures, and institutions in relation to crisis, including in the entangled...

Social Theory and Education – Call for SIG Convenor 2024-2027

The Social Theory and Education SIG aims to support and develop theoretically informed educational research, to engage with and facilitate new social theory and to explore the relationships...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Informal education, school bullying and ‘public executions’: Young people’s experiences of the hierarchical nature of relationships in school

BERA Conference 2023

The reference to ‘public executions’ in the title of this blog post is a quote from a research participant who was describing his experience of what happens when someone is caught bullying in...

Book launch and discussion: Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education

Following the publication of the Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education, this session centred around three international interventions, demonstrating how a range of...

Book launch and discussion: Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education

Following the publication of the Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education, this session centred three international interventions, demonstrating how a range of contextualised...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Engaging low-income families in education research: An interdisciplinary exploratory study

BERA Conference 2023

Our comparative research project considered the challenges encountered when engaging low-income families in education research in the UK and China. In this blog post we highlight the context,...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Higher education disadvantage: Enhancing a community through modes of delivery

From a sociological perspective, Bourdieu (1986) sees cultural capital as non-economic resources such as education and knowledge, while social mobility is the ability to move up or down the social...

Problems with a transactional view of higher education

In the past two or three decades there has been a fundamental shift from seeing higher education in essentially educative terms to seeing it almost exclusively in transactional terms. Young people...

Women curriculum theorists

Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...