BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers
Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...
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The Russian war in Ukraine: The role of the education sector
This blog post is a summary of the discussion that took place during the recent BERA event dedicated to Ukraine: ‘The voice of Ukrainian Educational Research Association across borders or is...
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Nothing about us without us: Urgent changes needed in HE inclusive practice to address widening participation failures
Widening participation (WP) has been a dominant discourse in education policy for more than 20 years. Its original and continued core aim has been to improve higher education (HE) participation of...
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Student unions and the politics of disability for a more socially just higher education
What does disability activism reveal about higher education? In this blog post, we argue that activism as practised by disabled students exposes and challenges the workings of neoliberalism in...
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Creating the conditions for inclusion: How the Writing Café is facilitating accessibility for disability through mutuality and empowerment
Within higher education (HE) there are specific power dynamics that can be attributed to institutionalised intersectional inequality (for example lecturer-student hierarchy, social class and...
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Editorial: A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging
On 25 May 2022, Plymouth Institute of Education ran an international webinar, ‘Matters of “access” and “disability”: exploring and affecting systemic and cultural change in and for...
Continue reading blog postA new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging
This special issue of the BERA Blog aims to push higher education towards a new ecology that embraces the values and voices of disabled students, and places inclusion and equity at the forefront...
School location and distributed leadership in the United Kingdom
Distributed leadership has increased in popularity worldwide (Harris & Spillane, 2008). Research has been conducted across a diverse range of countries on distributed leadership and its...
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Social Justice SIG Convenor 2023-2026
SIG Convenor Vacancy The Social Justice SIG promotes dialogue on educational policies and practices at all levels in terms of supporting or inhibiting social justice. We are committed to...
Reflections on using western survey techniques in Chinese contexts
This blog presents a possible example to apply western survey instruments to probe into the impact of gender and social economic status (SES) on career choices of engineering undergraduates in...
Continue reading blog postEducational attainment in Northern Ireland: Understanding inequalities through administrative data
Educational attainment inequalities receive continuous policy attention across the UK with certain social groups consistently underachieving. Our study (Early et al., 2022) used the first record...
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Decolonising curriculum knowledge: A scholarly journey from the local, to national and international perspectives
I began decolonising curriculum knowledge 25 years ago. The tragic murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was the catalyst of my activism in education, research, teaching...
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