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BERA Publishes 2023 Annual Report

2023 was a blockbuster year for BERA, and there was much to celebrate. We are pleased to publish our annual report for 2023, offering a comprehensive overview of our organisation's achievements in...

Crafting inclusive research approaches

BERA Conference 2023

Take three postgraduate researchers with a shared interest in developing inclusive approaches to disability and education, a carrier bag of magazines donated by the Women’s Institute, scissors...

Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding

Expert Panel update BERA’s Expert Panel on educational research funding is continuing its work. After some initial meetings, the panel revised its aims and also engaged a RA who worked with the...

Editorial: Researching gender and sexuality

Gender and sexualities research carries unique sensitivities and challenges that can create a range of barriers for postgraduate and early career educational researchers. Our event ‘Researching...

Researching gender and sexuality

Gender and sexualities research carries unique sensitivities and challenges that can create a range of barriers for postgraduate and early career educational researchers. The event Researching...

Top tips for facilitating creative research spaces with arts-based methods

The appeal of creative methods in research has been well noted across literature, including their potential for enhancing participant-led forms of expression (see Ascroft, 2021; Kara, 2020; Vaart...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Rethinking the numbers: Promoting alternative research perspectives among mathematics education researchers

Practitioner research in education helps us better understand effective pedagogy and practices. Indeed, it is practitioner curiosity that often drives our research. However, does the situatedness...

Jumping and pushing through the cruel optimism of racial justice work

BERA Conference 2023

Asking research participants ‘How did you come to be leading antiracism work across your school – were you pushed or did you jump?’ elicited varied responses, with most citing one event as a...

Positive psychology and language learning: A systematic scoping review

Our blog post reports on a systematic scoping review that addresses the influence of positive psychology on second and foreign language acquisition and learning. Emotions significantly impact...

How to optimise the use of Hattie and Timperley’s feedback levels for student learning

Hattie and Timperley (2007) distinguish four levels of feedback messages that address different aspects of students’ learning: task, process, self-regulation and self. This blog post outlines...

The complexity of the relations between policy, research and practice in primary education

I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...