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Researching the curriculum: The value of published research

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How do teachers use...

Researching the curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, professionalism and innovation

Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog from the British Curriculum Forum On 24 February 2018 the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its third curriculum event for teachers, academics,...

Writing Retreat

  At BERA Conference 2017, members asked for a writing retreat especially for those new to conference and publications.   This two day event is designed to provide: • Opportunity...

The power of relationships: Reflections on social and emotional learning programmes

At the beginning of the year, while I was mindlessly scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across an interesting post from the headteacher of a school located in an affluent area on the...

The ethics of educational leadership research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.   Researching educational leadership can raise...

The social categories of gender, race, dis-ability, intelligence, sexuality and class in relation to education

There have recently been calls to adopt approaches to the study of the social world that deny the need to address ontological and epistemological issues. Advocates for these approaches give the...

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...