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Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities We have some fantastic sponsorship and exhibition opportunities available at the conference. To download the sponsorship and exhibition brochure...

The edublogger, the school and the academy

In December 2018, BERA published my blog, ‘In pursuit of a secure base? Education commentary in times of socio-political uncertainty’. The core point of that article was to consider a topic...

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions When is the abstract submission deadline? The abstract submission deadline for Keynote Symposia is 3 January 2014 and 17 January 2014 for the Early Career Researcher...

CollectivED: Curating voices in professional learning

The thread As a new professor I was invited to establish a research and practice centre, and it was suggested by the dean of my school that creating a working paper series would be a valuable...

Jodie Pennacchia

Dr Jodie Pennacchia is a researcher in the policy-sociology of education and youth. She began her career working in learning support roles in mainstream and alternative schools, and has undertaken...

Pedagogic appropriateness: Judging quality in practitioner enquiry

Most teachers would not dream of giving a non-reader a text-heavy piece of comprehension with 20 or more questions to answer without some support or scaffolding, if at all. Neither would we ask...

Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...

Academic or practitioner? Border-crossings and close-to-practice research

My professional career started in the mid-1980s. It has involved a journey from school teaching into higher education: I have worked as a research fellow, lecturer, professor and university senior...

Pam Jarvis

Dr Pam Jarvis is a chartered psychologist and a historian. Her key research focus is the wellbeing of children, young people and their families, and the development of social policy to support...

Kate Wall

Kate Wall is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde. Kate’s work focuses on the development of innovative pedagogies and research methodologies (including visual approaches)...

Yinka Olusoga

Lecturer

Dr Yinka Olusoga is a lecturer in education and Course Director of the BA in Education, Culture and Childhood at the University of Sheffield. Her research and teaching focus on discourses and...

Kay Sidebottom

Kay Sidebottom is a Lecturer in Education, and Programme Director for a new MSc Education at the University of Stirling. With a background in community and adult education, her pedagogical...