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BERJ Editors’ Choice Award 2018

The editorial team of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and BERA and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award, recognising articles published...

Netnography: exploring ‘innovative’ approaches to research

My PhD focusses on how online teacher-learning communities may support professional development, and as a relatively new researcher I was aware that, to address the subject, I needed to build my...

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

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational 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.   Discussants: Dr. Dalene Swanson, Dr....

Students experience empowerment and empathy through pedagogical partnership

Student empowerment can take many forms. Some, such as new student activism and student consumerism, can feel threatening to faculty and higher education communities. Others offer a...

Early Career Researchers in Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning (Bedford)

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. This event is designed to support early career...

Early Career Researchers in Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning (Birmingham)

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. This event is designed to support early career...

Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Fifty years after Stanley Kubrick introduced cinemagoers to HAL9000, the prospect of a robot-infused world still feels more science fiction than social fact. Yet robots are steadily beginning to...

WISERD Annual Conference 2018

The theme for the WISERD Annual Conference is "Addressing inequalities and injustice" and it promises to provide colleagues from across the academic, policy, public, private, and third...

Closing the gap in access to free ‘universal’ early education: What affects participation among low-income families?

For over a decade, all children in England have been entitled to free government-funded early education and care from the term after they turn three. One of the aims of this policy is to close the...

Feedback is good, but scaling it…

One of the aspects of being an instructor that I personally find most frustrating is how difficult is to improve a learning experience. The strong interdependency of so many factors makes finding...

Summer 2018

Research Intelligence issue 136: Ethical issues in educational research This special issue on research ethics accompanies the publication of the new, fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines...

The educational implications of Lionel Shriver’s attack on diversity ‘quotas’

‘[I]f an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter, it will be published,...