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SIG Meet & Discuss: Inclusive Education

26 Feb 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Join us for the next meeting of the Inclusive Education Special Interest Group, where members will come together to network, reflect, and explore key themes in inclusive education. We will begin...

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...

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...

Winter 2025/26

Research Intelligence issue 165: Integrating inclusiveness and accessibility in education: Emerging technologies and learning in people with disabilities

Why teaching peace isn’t enough: Rethinking the role of education in postconflict recovery

10 years of the BERA Blog

In postconflict societies, education is often seen as a cornerstone of peacebuilding. Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) embrace its potential to foster...

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...

Flipping the deficit narrative: Working-class people in UK higher education

Working-class people in UK higher education (UKHE) have historically been viewed through the lens of deficit (Crew, 2024), amid a shifting and transient understanding of what it means to be...

The centre should not hold: Class-based disablism in the academy

Universities play a key role in the ‘meritocratic myth’. In our contribution to this BERA Blog special issue, we consider how disability and social class challenge the persistent regulative...

Questioning ableism in education through anti-ableist pedagogies

The number of students who identify as disabled attending higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has significantly increased over the past decade. According to recent data from the Higher...

Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme

BERA has partnered with the Kusuma Trust to deliver 4 research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent.

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...

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...