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BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 15 Jul 2024

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.

Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)

Closes 30 Jun 2024

The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...

Typologising in, around and for the field of education management, administration and leadership

26 Jun 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This BERA Educational Leadership SIG event introduces researchers’ development and exploration of typologies in and around  educational leadership, management and administration (ELMA).  ...

Headteacher agency: Erosion through performativity

As part of a doctorate of education qualification at University College London, I conducted a small-scale research project for an Institute Focused Study. The project was designed to draw...

The ECR journey: From inspiration to impact

The first ever BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference in May 2023, The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact, celebrated the journey of ‘becoming’ an educational researcher. It was an...

Parental activism in education

In her final annual report as Chief Inspector of Ofsted, England’s schools and children’s services inspectorate, Amanda Spielman, opines that the Covid-19 pandemic has ‘fractured’ the...

How do we develop an education fan base?

We have been discussing the forthcoming 2024 UK general election and how we might enable debate about public education in England. We have found James O’Brien’s arguments about...

Leading Women in Higher Education

In this Leading Women seminar, we will investigate the intersections of gender, race, and geolocation in shaping women’s experiences of leadership in Higher Education. We aim to identify...

Leading Women in Higher Education

In this Leading Women seminar, we investigated the intersections of gender, race, and geolocation in shaping women's experiences of leadership in Higher Education. We aimed to identify...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Women in higher education leadership in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK: Barriers and challenges

Numerous studies in higher education have examined women’s leadership in academic institutions both within specific countries and from an international perspective (Barnard et al., 2022;...

Towards a new understanding of leadership in early childhood education and care

BERA Conference 2023

The aspiration for a transformed early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, providing vital development for children before school in England, characterised by effective leadership and...