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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...
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 –...
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....
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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BERA is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Doctoral Thesis Award is Dr Carla Finesilver.Carla’s thesis examined the particular difficulties with multiplicative thinking...
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...