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BERA Conference 2023 Awards Announced

The BERA Conference 2023 was held at the Conference Aston/ Aston University, 12-14 September 2023. We are pleased to announce the conference award winners. Please click below to view the ECR Best...

The potential of infrapolitical dissent for influencing climate change education policy

As academics working to ameliorate the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction through education, we often question the efficacy of our efforts. As higher education teachers, we...

Innovative Research Methodologies: Corpus assisted discourse analysis

This podcast is the sixth and final instalment in the series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being...

BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

The BERA Conference 2023 was held on the 12th-14th September 2023 at Conference Aston/Aston University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. The conference ended with three...

Introducing the #baglady methodology

BERA Conference 2023

Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

Can developing peer mentoring relationships improve teaching development in higher education?

BERA Conference 2023

Teaching excellence has been at the forefront of policy worldwide (O’Leary & Savage, 2020). In the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework, ranking tables and scrutiny from the Office for...

Better together: Research-practice partnerships in education

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Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are collaborative research structures which seek to improve children and young people’s educational experiences and outcomes, by synthesising the cumulative...

Widening participation in higher education: Reforming infographics beyond the visual through the eyes of sports coaching students

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In this blog post, I explore the value of infographics beyond their visual aspect for widening participation students. The post draws on my PhD research, which focuses on the value of infographics...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

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On less optimistic days, we might reflect that for some in society, the social fabric that binds us together is currently not only fraying but unravelling. This leads us to question what it would...

Innovative Research Methodologies: The learning schools approach

This podcast is the fifth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Rebecca Jesson

Dr Rebecca Jesson is an Associate Professor in literacy education at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. She was recently appointed Research and Academic Director...

Mei Kuin Lai

Dr Mei Kuin Lai is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. She is Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre there and was recently...