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Christopher Chivungo

Christopher Manuel Chivungo is the resident Policy Officer at The Black Curriculum, an organisation that has been campaigning for the past 5 years for Black British history to be part of the...

Academic Writing Retreat

This writing retreat will create a productive environment for participants to write. There are quiet spaces to write, with short spaces to share tips and tools, to overcome writing blocks, and to...

Katy Huxley

Katy Huxley is a Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s Social Science Park (SPARK). As a Co-Investigator with Administrative Data Research Wales (ADR Wales) her research focuses on transitions...

Terra Glowach

Terra Glowach is a Senior Lecturer in ITE at the University of the West of England. She researches teacher-led approaches to decolonising Secondary Education in England.

From compliance to conversation: New guidelines push for ethical reflection in research reporting

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Academic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public. Scholarly...

Professor Mhairi Beaton Announced as next BERA President

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is delighted to announce that Professor Mhairi Beaton (Leeds Beckett University) has been elected as the next President of BERA. She will assume...

Editorial: Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

Autoethnography holds significant relevance as a methodology in social justice work within educational research and practice (Boylorn, 2006; Ellis, 2002; Skousen, 2022). It is defined as a...

Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

In April and July of 2023, the BERA Social Justice special interest group (SIG) held an event titled ‘Beyond “Navel-gazing”: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change’. This event brought...

Narrating self, narrating us: Autoethnography in Black women’s storytelling

Telling stories has been part of my upbringing since birth. My Jamaican immigrant grandparents used stories to shape my identity, build character, and share their histories – stories of arriving...

Ripple effects: From the ‘auto’ to wider narratives of social purpose

Historically, self-reflective work has been disparaged as narcissistic or uncritical. In this blog post, I outline two ways, drawn from my own research and practice, in which starting from an...

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...