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Schools site visits in Belfast at the BERA Annual Conference 2015

All delegates who have registered for the BERA 2015 Annual Conference to be held on the 15th-17th September 2015, will have the opportunity to visit a local Belfast school. The schools site visit...

Represent BERA at AERA 2016

Each year we offer BERA members the opportunity to represent BERA at an international association.We are currently accepting symposia for the AERA conference to be held on Friday, April 8 –...

Final Countdown to the 2015 BERA Annual Conference

Have you registered yet?It is now less than a month to the BERA Annual Conference being held at Queen's University Belfast, 15-17 September 2015.The programme and all abstracts are now online....

Structure of professional doctorate programmes

Is it any wonder that there is discussion about the structure of such programmes and what works best for those concerned? What is a doctoral programme? An advanced study of a defined topic? A...

Much ado about something: The effects of the National Student Survey on higher education

This research (for the British Academy/Leverhulme) set out to gather evidence on the effects of the National Student Survey (NSS) ten years after its introduction. The effects of the survey go...

‘Turning Schools Inside Out’: Developing Curriculum with Community Partners

In this blog I will be arguing that it would be extremely beneficial for many schools to engage in community curriculum making (CCM) whereby some of the curriculum is developed with community...

Request for Proposal (RFP) for a research programme to understand the impacts of ‘Authentic Biology’ on students

The Wellcome Trust is inviting proposals for research that builds on their Authentic Biology work. In particular, they are keen for proposals that can examine in more detail the impact that AB...

How could MOOCs help us to think differently about learning and teaching in the 21st century?

Many are sceptical about the impact of MOOCs on the higher education landscape while others argue that we need to wait before we evaluate the experiment. Regardless of which side of the...

BERA invites proposals for 2015-6 Research Commissions

BERA is calling for proposals for Research Commissions to run during the academic year 2015-2016. The purpose of the commissions is to create space to think laterally and at greater depth on...

When the poor relation comes to town! Education’s contribution to social science research methods

Maintaining global competitiveness in a fast-changing data landscape requires ongoing investment of resource For some time the development of research capacity has been a concern amongst...

BERA Masters Dissertation Award Winner 2015

BERA is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Masters Dissertation Award is Alvin Leung, University of Cambridge.Alvin’s dissertation took a critical look at discourses of...