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A professional early childhood workforce for a peaceful, shared and sustainable Northern Ireland

This presentation will explore some of the historical policy developments that have shaped the current Early childhood workforce in Northern Ireland and will propose the radical structural reform...

English in Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The English in Education SIG is a forum for researchers to investigate what is a broad and complex area of knowledge: our starting point is the school subject of English,...

Child Centered Diversity in quality early childhood education and care

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is internationally recognised as a social investment strategy for supporting parental employment and providing the foundations to children’s...

Continuities in mental wellbeing from adolescence into early adulthood

We are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...

Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...

Education practitioners’ and students’ perspectives on youth mental health first aid provision within education settings in England

The Youth Mental Health First Aid in Schools programme (Youth MHFA) is a policy initiative intended to enable education practitioners to spot the signs of mental health issues in children and...

Whole-school approaches to building resilience and promoting mental health: Embracing complexity

In the context of increasing demand for specialist mental health (MH) services, emphasis has been placed on school-based early intervention to prevent or de-escalate later MH issues. The case for...

Self-harm in primary-aged school children

Finding ways to support and identify children and young people (CYP) who self-harm is an important social issue. Incidences of self-harm in CYP in the UK have risen in the last 20 years, with the...

Championing mental health in schools with Book of Beasties: The mental wellness card game

Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools Last year’s State of the nation 2019 report (DfE, 2019a) on children and young people’s wellbeing indicated that the majority...

Editorial: Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...

Bloomsbury discount

Exclusive to BERA ECR Members BERA are pleased to announce this current partnership with Bloomsbury to offer 30% discount off all books in the Research Methods and Study Skills and the Research...

Kate O’Shaughnessy

Education Consultant

Hi – I'm Kate, the Director of OSC Education Ltd. I'm all about connecting theory with practice in education. I started teaching English in East London before becoming a senior leader for many...