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SIG Meet & Discuss: Higher Education

5 Nov 2025 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The aim of the Higher Education special interest group is to contribute towards and enhance critical debates and perspectives on higher education policy, pedagogy and practice. This is a broad...

Autumn 2025

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

Adapting Gramsci’s framework through retroductive inference: Insights from Kazakhstani higher education

This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...

Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação, quinta edição (2024)

A 5a edição das Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação da BERA foi revisada e atualizada para permitir que os pesquisadores conduzam seu trabalho de acordo com os mais altos padrões...

Could cross-education sector collaboration around ‘scholarship’ boost educational research in the UK?

As researchers in higher education (HE) we find ourselves interested in the ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ (SoTL) (Felton, 2013). While difficult to pin-down, SoTL is both ‘field’...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 166

BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 166 of Research Intelligence on the theme of Higher Education: Opportunities and...

‘Brunch with…’: An alternative to the office hour to promote student engagement

Born in East London, raised in council tenement and working since the age of 14, Chandres is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at QMUL. Before joining QMUL, Chandres held the position at London...

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.

Amplifying unheard voices through doctoral study: The value of the professional doctorate for the pracademic researcher

It is probably true to say that the process of giving voice to my ‘inner researcher’ has already taken more than two decades. As someone who has consistently straddled professional practice...

Editorial: The place of the EdD in personal and professional transformation

This special issue explores the value of the professional doctorate in education (EdD) journey and the sources of motivation for individuals pursuing their doctoral research based on their...

The place of the EdD in personal and professional transformation

This special issue explores the value of the professional doctorate in education (EdD) journey and the sources of motivation for individuals pursuing their doctoral research based on their...

My EdD journey as a collaborative and creative endeavour

Collaborative social learning spaces that foster creativity and social change have always been central to my development as an educator, and they have never been more valuable to me than during my...