Independent Researchers’ Forum – Launch event
Educational research takes place in many different settings, including higher education institutions, but also schools, local authorities, community organisations and research organisations...
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Educational researchers and their living-educational-theories
In this, my first contribution to the BERA blog, I hope to stimulate debate by sharing some differences of opinion with other researchers in BERA. My intention is to emphasise the importance of...
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Teachers in further education: more standards, not yet a profession?
Further education (FE) colleges – how they work, what happens in them, who studies in them, who works in them – always seem to get shunted to the margins. They are under-funded, relatively...
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Vocationalism?: Past, Present And Future
Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email enquiries@bera.ac.uk.Programme:09.45 - 10.00 Registration, tea and coffee 10.00 -...
The Government’s plans for Higher and Further Education: Queen’s Speech, Budget and beyond
Having had a quieter few years legislatively, higher education once again made the headlines of George Osborne’s Summer Budget on 8th July. Although it had been widely trailed, the chancellor...
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2015 BERA/BCF/Routledge Taylor-Francis Curriculum Journal prize
BERA and the British Curriculum Forum are delighted to announce that this year’s BERA/BCF/Routledge Taylor-Francis Curriculum Journal prize has been awarded to a team from Anglia Ruskin...
Accidents will happen…but why is there so little educational research on disasters?
On the 21st October 1966 forty thousand cubic metres of coal debris from a badly maintained National Coal Board waste site in Aberfan, South Wales, destroyed the Pantglas junior school below. ...
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BELMAS International Conference
Call for Abstracts Abstracts are invited on papers addressing any aspect of educational leadership and management and particularly those which focus on the specific conference theme:...
WISERD Toasts Another Successful Annual Conference
Last week the 6th Annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) Conference took place at Cardiff’s iconic Millennium Stadium. The WISERD Conference is the largest...
Why don’t we have Counter-factuals? We could learn a lot
Historians write counter-factuals: brief papers that speculate about ‘what ifs?’ For example if William of Normandy had lost the battle of Hastings in 1066 what would the UK have looked...
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White Working-Class Boys’ Learner Identities in Neoliberal Times
In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the popular press that white working-class children consistently underperform at school and are less likely to attend...
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Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work
MMU Research Education and Social Research Institute Plenary Keynote Speakers Patricia Clough City University of New York Patti Lather Ohio State University Elizabeth de Freitas Adelphi...