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Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

Designed to complement BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

Co-authoring an academic paper with young people: The ethical next step in the students as researcher process

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

This blog post documents the journey to co-author outcomes of a Students as Researcher project (Fielding & Bragg, 2003) as a perspectives and reflections article for the Curriculum Journal (see...

Research with children: Ethical dilemmas regarding practice in the Chinese context

In 2023, as research assistants, we were involved in a project led by Dr Zhu Yan entitled ‘Tackling Ethical Challenges in Research with Children: Contextualizing Children’s Rights in China’....

Can data generation with children be democratic?

The widely cited United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the importance of children’s rights, including their freedom of expression (article 13). Research and policy...

Grappling with ladders: Perspectives on the field of students as researchers from a professional doctoral student

As a head teacher embarking upon research into students as researchers (SAR), I have been reflecting on the theoretical context in which my research sits. It is possible to see a pathway where...

Stumbling upon ‘walking interviews’ with headteachers

‘Research reports often read as though the researchers knew from the start exactly what they were setting out to do and moved in a linear direction towards that end… actual research is rarely...

Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)

The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice

If your method was an animal, what would it be?

As academics, our methodological conversations are often pragmatic, focused on using certain approaches for certain aims, and less focused on deeper exploration of ways of ‘doing’ methods. In...

Education and democracy & History of education: BERA Brian Simon Fund research reports

The research presented in this series of reports was funded by a grant from the Brian Simon fellowship fund. Held in trust by BERA, the fund was a gift from the family of Brian Simon, a leading...

Summer 2024

Research Intelligence issue 159: Partnering with generative artificial intelligence to write: The future of academic publishing

‘Read The Trial by Kafka for a good analogy’: Teacher educator experiences of DfE accreditation in England

The whole initial teacher education (ITE) sector in England has just been through a significant change, brought about by the Department for Education’s ITT Market Review (DfE, 2022). We use the...