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BERA Conference 2015 – Keynote Lectures

For educational researchers the BERA Annual Conference is an important date in their professional year. It provides the opportunity to: network with existing colleagues support new...

How can we do education research in a socially just way?

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.Please join our panel for a discussion of the...

Telling stories of practice – a workshop for youth workers and researchers

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsiteThis workshop will bring youth workers and youth work...

40th BERA Annual General Meeting

The 40th BERA AGM will take place at 5:00pm on Monday 14th September 2015.It will be held in the Canada Room, Lanyon Building at Queen's University Belfast.All members are invited to attend,...

Rhetoric in Vocationalism

The BERA SIG: Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning has held a number of runs of events in the last year or two and I’ve enjoyed being able to make a small number of the London ones....

BERA Conference 2015

14 September 2015 to 17 September 2015Belfast

The BERA Conference 2015 was held on the 14th-17th September 2015 at Queen's University, Belfast. Keynote speakers included: Professor Gemma Moss, Professor Paul Connolly, and Professor Cynthia E....

Universities, schools and a system in flux – looking back on Carter and looking forward to the future of Initial Teacher Education in England

In 2014 I was part of the Carter Review of ITT – an experience that was rewarding, intense and often stressful. I met a student teachers, mentors, heads, university and school based tutors, NQTs...

New Issue of Research Intelligence now online

The autumn issue of Research Intelligence is now online. Members can download the interactive version here.

Key facts on educational research in 2015

Ahead of the BERA 2015 Conference, we have published a fact sheet based on the outcomes of REF2014 and the forthcoming BERA Observatory. This gives an overview both the strengths of UK educational...

Filling in the ‘Hole in the Wall’: The pedagogical implications of digital technology and learning with a SOLE

The World Wide Web has changed how we do everything forever. We can literally find out anything we want thanks to Google and numerous other search engines competing for our attention. You can buy...

Socially mixed schools but limited social mixing? Children’s and Adults’ Friendships Across Social Class and Ethnic Difference

I had such a homogenous schooling [in a private school] and I think that gave me a terribly blinkered view of society which I’m hoping that I’ve shrugged off some of it, but I don't think you...

BERA President’s Roundtables 2015-17: Methodological challenges in education(al) research

BERA is starting a series of presidential round table seminars that will draw on processes of agenda- setting, horizon-scanning, evidence review and user engagement to explore key methodological...