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Call for Nominations: John Nisbet Fellowship

Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to one or more people who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of...

Claire Tyson

Teacher Researcher

Claire Tyson is a teacher researcher based at Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, where she combines teaching science with her research post. Her PhD was obtained by studying part time with...

History – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The History SIG is: a broad church for researchers and practitioners situated within the fields of history of education and history education to consider areas of...

Evaluating the increased importance of the impact component in the UK’s research excellence framework

The research excellence framework (REF) evaluates the quality of the research produced by the higher education institutes (HEIs) in the UK in three areas: quality of research outputs, the impact...

Social Theory and Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor 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...

Join the Curriculum Journal editorial board

The Curriculum Journal – BERA’s international peer-reviewed journal featuring original contributions to the study of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment – is refreshing the membership of its...

Threshold concepts and troublesome transitions

I attended school in the county of Staffordshire, England, and can still clearly recall starting Sixth Form as being one of the most significant periods in my life. Transitioning from the General...

Tips for Journal Authors – Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Impact

Our publishing partner, Wiley, have provided a guidance sheet for journal authors to assist with SEO. This is to help your work get read, get shared and get cited.  Title Tips Keyword...

Mirror Mirror on the wall: the function of data in constructing child subjectivity

Data has become an increasingly important aspect of all our lives. Huge quantities of data are collected about us and used in increasingly complex ways to impact on our lives. An advertisement for...

Arts Based Educational Research – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Arts Based Educational Research aims: to understand education through arts-based concepts, techniques and practice to provide a platform for theoreticians and...

Creativity in education: Encountering thing-power!

Early Monday morning by Camden Lock: A well-trodden curved canal bridge A hairy, head-nodding willow Anchoring the in-between before another week ripples in Moorings Steadfast lock...

Nikki Fairchild

Nikki Fairchild is an Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education in the School of Education' Languages and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth. Her teaching and research...