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Autoethnography and stakeholder engagement

In this blog post I report on my Winston Churchill Foundation research fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care in 2023 (Ikomi, 2024). Adultification can occur in a...

Beyond navel-gazing: Why is there a lack of Black male teachers in the United Kingdom?

‘Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.’―Paulo Freire In this blog post, I will share how autoethnography has shaped my doctoral research on...

Challenging the narrative: Auto-captioning and diversity in higher education speech recognition

In this blog post, I outline key findings from my autoethnographic study examining the ways auto-generated captioning technologies (such as Panopto) in higher education (HE) transcribe my...

Becoming a mature postgraduate researcher: Using autoethnography to stargaze

Do you believe that the stars can align to ensure you are in the right place at the right time? In spring 2023, I read a paper by Professor Pat Tissington on using autoethnography (Ellis et al.,...

Exploring ‘equivalences’ in the UK’s REF and India’s NRF: A comparative enquiry

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

In recent years, both the UK and India have demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing research excellence through strategic frameworks – the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) and...

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a cornerstone of research assessment in the UK, influencing funding, reputation and strategy across institutions. However, many researchers are still...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

At the intersection of philosophy and poetic inquiry

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, that...

Sexualities and Gender – Call for SIG Convenor 2025-2028

The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform...

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...

Teacher educators’ experiences of research: ‘My time goes on chalk face survival’

In 2021 we began a research project,[1] looking at the experiences of academics working in initial teacher education (ITE) in England, and the survey and follow-up interviews continue annually,...

BERA releases new Podcast Series: The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Educational Research

In 2015, United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is framed around 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN describes these goals as “an...