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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...

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:...

Call for proposals: BERA Blog special issue on refugee and asylum-seeking learners

Closes 30 Sep 2025

The BERA Blog is delighted to invite proposals from teams of guest editors and authors for a BERA Blog special issue on learners from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. One proposal will be...

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...

‘Countering the post-truth turn’: A Spinozist educational approach

The 2024 UK election saw the reemergence of Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK, the political successor to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Brexit Party. Reform UK’s...

Disrupting disinformation: How ‘Schools Linking’ reduces vulnerability to divisive narratives

Racist, Islamophobic violence terrorised citizens in around 27 UK locations during the race riots of August 2024. Reports of well-known far-right figures encouraging involvement, coupled with...

White working-class children’s underachievement in England and Northern Ireland: Continuing challenges and implications for policy and practice to close the attainment gap

In the first decade of this millennium local government researchers in London and Birmingham, England, put their heads above the parapet to address the issue of White working-class children’s...

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...