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Sharon Feeney

Sharon Feeney teaches Strategic Management at Technological University Dublin. Sharon is the Head of Learning Development in the College of Business at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland....

John Hogan

John Hogan teaches Irish politics in Technological University Dublin. John is a Research Fellow and Politics Lecturer in the College of Business. He is also a founding director of the College’s...

Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England?

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

In July 2024 a newly elected Labour government announced an independent curriculum and assessment review for England spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5. The purpose of this exercise...

Developing student teachers’ confidence to teach languages through an authentic microteaching exercise

Compulsory languages teaching for primary teachers in Scotland Following the introduction of the Scottish Government’s 1+2 language policy in 2012, all primary teachers in Scotland are expected...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2025

Every year, BERA’s Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network runs an annual symposium series that spans the four nations and focuses on a particular theme. The ECR Network’s symposia series seeks...

Michèle Vincent

Michèle Vincent is a lecturer in Modern Languages and Education and is the subject lead for Education at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. Her...

Spring 2025

Research Intelligence issue 162: International comparative education

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop on participatory research spaces at the BERA 2024 conference: Insights and practical examples of researching with youth co-researchers

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop that I facilitated at the 2024 BERA Conference, had developed through years of research working alongside children and young people as co-researchers. The...

Alice Little

Alice Little is a part-time postgraduate researcher in her fourth year at York St John University. Her research explores how children and young people experience engaging as co-researchers and how...

New Chair of BERA’s Conference & Events Committee

BERA is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Aimee Quickfall as the next Chair of the Conference & Events Committee (CEC). She will take up the role on 1 January 2026, following the...

Muslim identity formation in London: The role of supplementary schools

Historically, education has played a vital role in identity formation, especially when looking at minority groups. Group threat theory (Stephen & Stephen, 2000) suggests that minority communities...

Elizabeth Pargeter-Takhar

Beth is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire, interested in the changing nature of the headteacher role and challenges leaders face in promoting social justice and health in...