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Food banks in schools and the ‘cost of living’ crisis

In the UK, over 2.6 million children experience food insecurity, which is defined as those who have limited or unreliable access to food due to a lack of financial resources (Power et al., 2020;...

SIG Forum Meeting – Children and Childhoods

Join the Children & Childhoods  SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2022 This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...

Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications

Gender stereotypes continue to play a significant role in how children imagine their future careers, and in the long term, these stereotypes may limit opportunities for both boys and girls. We...

Call for abstracts: Theorising educational engagement, transitions & outcomes for care-experienced people

Editors Zoe Baker (University of York), Katie Ellis (University of Sheffield) and Neil Harrison (University of Oxford) are seeking high-quality, international contributions for a forthcoming...

Collaging childhoods’ relationships 

In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...

Dyslexia: To identify or ignore?

When it comes to identifying whether a child has dyslexic tendencies, parents/guardians and teachers can experience a combination of feelings about whether this is for the best. The principal...

Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience

Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_Transform @BERANews These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a...

Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience

These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a pandemic, huge environmental challenges, racial, social and economic inequalities, democratic deficit and a profound transformation of...

Childhood bereavement: A call for national policy that considers young people’s views

This blog reflects on a study recently published in Review of Education that investigated teachers' perspectives on supporting bereaved children in British primary schools (Abraham-Steele &...

The impact of Covid-19 on children in early years settings

In April 2020, senior managers from Kids Planet Day Nurseries[1] approached researchers at York St John University to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the young children in their care. Two...

Zeta Williams-Brown

Reader in Education for Social Justice

Zeta Williams-Brown is Professor for Inclusive Education in the Centre for Research in Education and Social Transformation (CREST) at the University of Wolverhampton. She is co-lead for the...

Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years