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Emily Quinton

Emily holds a BSc in Psychology in Education from the University of Bristol. She was awarded the 2024 BERA Undergraduate Award for her thesis, ""How has no-one told me this before?”: Queer...

2024 BERA Undergraduate Award Winner

Every year BERA celebrates excellence in undergraduate educational research by awarding the undergraduate award to an individual who completed an undergraduate degree in education or a related...

Zongyi Deng

Zongyi Deng is Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. He is also an executive editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (JCS) and he...

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...

Michelle Thomason

Michelle Thomason is Senior Lecturer and leads the PGCE Further Education at the University of East London. A former curriculum area leader for media studies at an inner London sixth form, her...

Eleanor Long

Eleanor Long is a White Rose DTP third-year PhD student at the Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. She is writing her PhD thesis on the experiences of primary...

Let’s not blame students for the shortcomings of assessment strategies of universities that turn a blind eye to artificial intelligence: A pre-crisis warning

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

This blog post highlights the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) aligned with how the higher education (HE) sector needs to adjust assessment strategies and academic integrity policies to...

Changing the rules of the game: The professionalisation of school governance and its implications for governor recruitment and retention

A recent National Governance Association (NGA, 2023a) report suggests that governor workload and lack of time are key contributors to the current crisis in the recruitment and retention of school...

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant

The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. The theme for the 2024-2025 grant is...

Nurturing children’s personalities: Value affection and care through being in nature

In many classrooms in England, teachers are struggling to prioritise the nurturing of children’s personality, as recommended in Article 29(1a) in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...

Typologising in, around and for the field of education management, administration and leadership

This BERA Educational Leadership SIG event introduced researchers’ development and exploration of typologies in and around  educational leadership, management and administration (ELMA).  ...

Typologising in, around and for the field of education management, administration and leadership

This BERA Educational Leadership SIG event introduced researchers’ development and exploration of typologies in and around educational leadership, management and administration (ELMA). Weber...