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Education: An academic discipline or a field?

What is the problem? Education research has periodically been sharply criticised for being weak in comparison with research from other disciplines. Some of this criticism has implied, or...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Knowledge – its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in policy and practice – is perhaps the most enduring and central element of curriculum research (e.g. Hirst,...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email conference@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_knowledge Knowledge - its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in...

In Conversations with…Professor Usha Goswami

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) one of the 2020 John Nisbet fellows.

In Conversations with…Professor Ian Menter

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Ian Menter (Unviersity of Oxford) one of the 2020 John Nisbet Fellows.

Pay and conditions in universities: BERA’s solidarity with academics

In the 21st century, working in a university is a demanding and complex job. The expectations of academic staff are numerous. We are required to publish world-leading research outputs, and our...

General Election 2019: Where do the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems stand on education?

What can we expect from the three main UK political parties if elected to government? I have compared the education sections of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos. (All...

Education and its contribution to human knowledge: reciprocal relationships between academic disciplines, policy and practice

This presidential keynote talk explores the nature of education as a vital part of human knowledge. The talk addresses the implications of conceiving education, and its contribution to knowledge,...

Keynote Speakers

What next for curriculum?

People are talking about curriculum again. Not just literacy and maths, but the whole curriculum. What’s more, there seems to be a real appetite for these discussions: organisations as diverse...

Writing a world-leading (four star) publication

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...

BERA Council and Committees

BERA Council is supported by a number of standing committees and steering groups who are tasked with actioning the decisions of BERA Council. BERA Council is made up of the following: The...