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Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

Closes 4 Nov 2025

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 ‘The Curriculum and Assessment Review:...

Presidential Seminar Series – Anti-racist education in Northern Ireland: Progress, Problems and Prospects

4 Nov 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

On Tuesday 4th November 2025, the BERA Presidential Seminar Series will hold an online event to focus Northern Ireland. During a period of significant educational transformation, and in the...

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...

Born to teach? Questioning the narrative of vocation among teachers

We know that more teachers are desperately needed in England, and that some subject specialisms experience particularly severe shortages (Maisuria et al., 2023). Seemingly less of a policy...

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series BERA, in collaboration with Emerald Publishing, invites book proposals for new titles in The BERA Guides series. This series aims to provide short,...

Decoloniality and education: Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog post presents decoloniality as education in being emancipated ontologically in sense and epistemological enlightenment. Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation What is the...

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...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...

Teachers need to be racially literate to practise safely in our nation’s schools

To confidently address racial challenges in today’s schools, UK teachers must surpass superficial understandings of racism. ‘Racial literacy’ is the capacity to grasp how race and racism...

A view from the bridge: Educating student teachers for racial justice

BERA President Marlon Moncrieffe denounced the race riots of summer 2024 as ‘nativist’ and ‘acts of ugly violence’, but he remains sceptical of this Labour government’s willingness to...

Antiracist multicultural education for White children, teachers and parents too!

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight why it is imperative for White children, trainee teachers, educators and parents to have access to and engage with an antiracist multicultural...

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...