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Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Cardiff)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

  Discussants: Dr Sara Delamont and Professor David James,  Cardiff University     Registrations for this event are now closed. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like...

The benefits of undergraduate research

Undergraduate students are not often valued as, or considered to be, researchers. Evidence suggests, however, that by providing undergraduates with research opportunities we upskill our students,...

Volume versus quality: Teacher education providers being pulled in different directions

When Michael Gove and Nick Gibb first entered their offices on the seventh floor in Sanctuary Buildings in 2010, they were intent on instigating a revolutionary change in the way that student...

Reading for Pleasure: What next?

A one day research symposium UKLA, BERA and OU The symposium seeks to enable information sharing in order to advance understanding of the concept of reading for pleasure, and to provoke debate...

Social media’s impact on children and young people’s mental health

In this blog I focus on the impact of social media on children and young people’s mental health, drawing on the research of Emily Frith (Frith, 2017). Some children in developed countries live...

BERA-LERN Educational Research Masterclass

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.     This event will be a research...

English teaching and the recruitment crisis: ‘Remembrance of times past’ – but considering times future

The English in Education SIG held its first research seminar on 15 February – an excellent occasion featuring Dr Simon Gibbons of UCL. Simon’s research has focussed on the history of English...

‘TEF what next ….?’ A HE SIG themed seminar

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.       This seminar event is aimed at...

Literature’s lasting impression: what can memories of reading at school tell us about teaching with novels today?

RESEARCH SEMINAR – John Gordon Most people remember ‘reading round the class’. Typically, discussion develops as classes share a book together, students elaborating responses collectively...

Innovation labs as a means of preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet

Professor Martin Boehm of the IE Business School says that in order to prepare students for the 80 per cent of jobs that will exist in 2025 but don’t exist today, traditional course content...

House of Commons symposium on teacher education policy

On 28 February 2018, a special education symposium was hosted by Mike Kane MP, shadow minister for schools, for Manchester Metropolitan University at the House of Commons. The symposium aimed to...

Education, employment and youth: Contemporary attitudes towards post-16 and post-18 education access

Providing opportunities for young people leaving compulsory schooling to pursue world-class further and higher education is a global concern. Post-compulsory education is constructed as a panacea...