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Network mapping: Fostering student belonging through relationships in higher education

Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022). Though...

Autumn 2025

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

Controversial issues in schools: A consideration for staff wellbeing

Minoritised teachers are less likely to stay in teaching than their White counterparts, citing the added burden of racism as a contributing factor (Worth et al., 2022). Ethnic minoritised staff...

The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice

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.

SIG Meet & Discuss: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education

We are having a SIG meeting to discuss our experiences of AI and impacts (positive, negative and neutral) on mental health and wellbeing. We will use some pre-reading from the BERA blog:...

The complex pressures facing primary and post-primary School Leaders in Ireland

In this blog post we examine how administrative burdens combine with emotional and cognitive demands to affect school leader wellbeing in Ireland. High levels of stress and attrition among...

Managing complex pupil needs: A key factor influencing teacher resilience

In this blog post we share insights from ‘Decentring the “resilient teacher”’, a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This project used a novel process of...

Navigating the future of Alberta’s teaching profession: Insights from teachers and school leaders

In this blog post I demonstrate how research data from the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) draw a picture of increasing teacher attrition in Alberta, Canada, and identify potential...

Filling the leaky bucket: Teacher workload and wellbeing in Tennessee

The United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...

‘Parents are clients and students are the product’: Secondary English teachers’ workload as moral injury

Teacher workload and its contribution to insufficient recruitment and retention is a prominent theme in recent research on teachers’ work (Heffernan et al., 2022; Stacey et al., 2024). In...

Teaching on the edge: Teacher mental health and workload pressures in Wales

The landscape of teaching in Wales has changed significantly post-Covid-19, with educators reporting increased workload pressures, rising Additional Learning Needs demands (Conn & Hutt, 2020),...