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Rethinking rural school leadership: Friendship matters?

There is a wide and weathered narrative about rural life, one that paints its characters in thick, earthy strokes: resilient, self-reliant and stoic. What is often curiously missing in these...

How system leadership can improve staff morale in English primary schools: Insights from a single case study

Retention among teachers in England’s primary schools is becoming a serious problem. Against the backdrop of increasing worries about workload and staff morale, there has been a high number of...

Editorial: Relationship-centred pedagogies: The route to ‘education for all’

This BERA Blog special issue responds to increasing concerns around school exclusions that have risen to almost 1 million in England and a government announcement in 2024 to phase out ‘cruel...

Relationship-centred pedagogies: The route to ‘education for all’

This BERA Blog special issue responds to increasing concerns around school exclusions that have risen to almost 1 million in England and a government announcement in 2024 to phase out ‘cruel...

Re-engaging disengaged students: Building trust and curriculum reform in secondary schools

Introduction I write this blog post following deep reflection on 40 years of teaching – 20 of which were as headteacher within three very different schools. In my final years of headship, I...

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...

Authentic leadership for unprecedented times in higher education

We are navigating through unprecedented times characterised by uncertainty and restlessness within the UK higher education (HE) environment. Over the past year, numerous institutions have faced...

Leadership Beyond Outcome: Transformational Leadership In Reducing Educational Inequality In Higher Education

Education is not the ultimate lever for social transformation, but without it, transformation cannot occur. (Paulo Freire, 1998, p. 37) This quote suggests that although education may not be the...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges

We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters.  Marked by profound global...

BERA journals virtual issue: Evaluating the worth of race, ethnicity and education over the last five years

Racism is a shapeshifter that adapts to silence minoritised ethnic voices, unless it is continually made visible. Race research therefore needs continuous development to challenge pervasive...

Teacher autonomy in education: Key insights and how to promote it

Scientific interest in the topic of teacher autonomy has grown in recent years in research publications across both international and local literature. This growing attention may be due to the...