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Call for Convenor: Arts Based Educational Research SIG

We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the BERA Arts Based Educational Research SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years.  Role & responsibilities of SIG Convenors: Plan & oversee SIG...

Getting creative in schools to improve young people’s wellbeing

Wellbeing is about feeling good and functioning well (Deighton, 2016). In the UK, young people’s wellbeing has been declining for the past two decades, and the prevalence of mental health...

The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2025

BERA Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the BERA Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Serendipity in motion: Navigating the unexpected in research

Vignette: The unexpected It was near the end of the workshop, and the materials table – once a neat arrangement of brushes, papers and pigments – had become a glorious mess. Most of the...

Arts-based research and the ‘truth’: lessons from composing songs about and with research

In what ways did, or could, arts-based research shape our understanding of ‘truth’? How could creative methodologies expand traditional research paradigms? This online workshop invited...

Arts-based research and the ‘truth’: lessons from composing songs about and with research

In what ways does, or could,  arts-based research shape our understanding of ‘truth’? How can creative methodologies expand traditional research paradigms? This online workshop invites...

Autumn 2025

Research Intelligence issue 164: Education in prisons: Generating hope, escaping stereotypes

SIG Meet & Discuss: Arts Based Educational Research

We hope you will join our inclusive, friendly, and collaborative ABER SIG forum to tell us all about your Arts Based Educational Research work.   We encourage you to share your current...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Artful Leadership

Arts Based Educational Research SIG Webinar Series

Artful Leadership – transforming leadership through playful and artistic thinking and doing Dedicated to research with and by leaders shaping the educational landscape, this webinar emphasises...

Artful Leadership

Dedicated to research with and by leaders who shaped the educational landscape, this webinar emphasised the use of the arts to understand and influence leadership strategies, as well as policy...

BERA celebrates 10 years of the BERA Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...