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Can We Stop It? Yes We Can! Stamping Out English Cultural “imperialism”

I subscribe to The London Review of Books (LRB). The main article on May 7th 2015 was about free schools and academies. It provoked a vigorous debate (on 21/5. 4/6 and 18/6) with serious...

Can Social Realism Do Social Justice?

Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...

The potential of inter-professional learning in supporting children with speech, language and communication needs

You may be aware of two pieces of research recently published about children’s speech, language and communication needs. The National Literacy Trust (Read On Get On campaign) commissioned James...

How can educational researchers respond to the refugee crisis?

Building on discussions at ECER 2015 in Budapest, BERA members and delegates used the opportunity of being gathered at the annual conference in Belfast to discuss how they might individually and...

High take-up of private tuition by primary school pupils revealed

Knowledge, education and research: making common cause across communities of practice

This BERA presidential address considers how knowledge, education and research interact in practice, as the institutional structures that support them change. Many of the efforts at large-scale...

The Trials of Evidence-Based Practice in Education

Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate in the UK regarding the notion of evidence-based practice as applied to education. Mirroring debates in the US and elsewhere, concerns have...

Pathways from Research to Policy: Implications for Researchers

In the last decade, there has been renewed interest in how policy makers in various fields use research in their decision making. Researchers wonder why some research ends up being influential in...

Want to get a good night’s sleep, kids? Turn off Facebook and Twitter, say researchers

The impact of social media on young people’s lives has been underlined starkly as a new study reports that more than one in five teenagers say they “almost always” wake up during the night...

Want to get a good night’s sleep, kids? Turn off Facebook and Twitter, say researchers

Schools ‘need a moral purpose beyond exam results’

BERA Conference 2015

Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2015 which will be held at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.We were last here in 1998 and are anticipating the same sun, excitement and...