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Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

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In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Wellbeing through the expressive arts: Supporting both student teachers and pupils in the classroom

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

During the Covid-19 pandemic emerging evidence showed the toll that the pandemic was having on the mental health of children (Anna Freud, 2020). We developed a module for our primary student...

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...

Support for newly qualified professionals: It takes a village

In the UK context, as per worldwide, we need teachers and doctors more than ever. We face the challenge of attracting the right candidates, ensuring they complete training programmes, and enter...

Fear and loathing in North Yorkshire: Students’ emotions, values and expectancies towards compulsory resits in mathematics

In this blog post I focus on resit GCSE and Functional Skills mathematics students who are studying vocational courses at a land-based further education (FE) college in the North of England. My...

The ‘Diverse Model’: A new way of perceiving disability?

The term ‘disability’ includes various impairments affecting physical, mental, intellectual or sensory abilities. According to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

Positive psychology and language learning: A systematic scoping review

Our blog post reports on a systematic scoping review that addresses the influence of positive psychology on second and foreign language acquisition and learning. Emotions significantly impact...

Educating for sustainable futures in secondary education

What are we educating for in secondary education? In a world where if we want to know something we can just ‘google it’, and artificial intelligence can generate essays, presentations or...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159

The future of academic publishing

‘Just say something!’

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As schools and colleges resume after the summer holiday, one issue is certain. With a child bereaved of a parent every 22 minutes in the UK, many teachers will be faced with supporting a grieving...