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Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

How we teach our teachers: The plight of initial teacher education in England and its global impact

‘Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.’ (Barzun, 1954, p. 12)  As it was then for Jacques Barzun, so it is now for the state of teaching in England. How we...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

ECR Coffee Hour – Spring 2024

This BERA ECR Network’s coffee hour gave the opportunity to find out more about the ECR Network and its activities as well as getting to know a little more about the team behind it. There were...

Enhancing high school video-based learning: Insights for educators

BERA Conference 2023

Video lessons were used extensively by high school teachers during Covid-19 emergency remote learning. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, video instruction continues to play an important role in...

Opportunity to help address the challenging histories of UK education’s past

BERA is supporting the British Psychological Society (BPS) in creating a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. The resource...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Tell me what to think! Reflections of an early career researcher on my first conference at BERA 2023

BERA Conference 2023

Two years after leaving classroom teaching and moving into the academic world of higher education, I was filled with optimism for my first ever conference. I was ready to be surrounded by some...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2023: Making decisions in educational research: ethics and methodologies

Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is targeted at early career researchers (ECRs) – be they current Masters or Doctoral students or those in the early post-doctoral phase....

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159

The future of academic publishing

How to develop more reach for your research

This BERA ECR conference offered a range of strategies to ensure your research has ‘reach’, that is, impact from the word go! The two keynote sessions explored how researchers can plan for...

Anti-racism as care in initial teacher education: A personal view from a teacher turned early career researcher

The seeds of frustration were sewn during my PGCE training year. If left unresolved, frustration can develop into anger. It is this anger which I now use as motivation to contribute to improving...