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SIG Meet & Discuss: Research Methodologies in Education

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

We invite you to join an informal meeting with the BERA Research Methodologies in Education SIG, where we will come together to share research findings, practical insights, and discuss key aspects...

Making case-based learning relevant for educators

Case-based learning: A research-informed pedagogy Case-based learning (CBL) bridges the gap between theory and practice by immersing students in real-world scenarios that are grounded in...

From ‘stuck moments’ to understanding: Theorising as a way of researching educational practice

This blog post shares an approach to researching persistent challenges of practice that developed in response to a practice issue: how best to support pre-service teachers to develop pedagogical...

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’...

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.

Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Using Matryoska dolls to facilitate early years teachers’ reflections based on the Ecological Systems Model

This blog post focuses on my use of innovative creative research methods to explore the lived experience of GTCS-registered early years teachers in Scotland. As an early years teacher I am part...

Bridging the rural–urban divide: The role of community colleges in Pakistan

Education is vital for a nation’s development to ensure socioeconomic progress. Pakistan, however, faces educational crises, including limited access to quality education and rural–urban...

A game changer for education research: An iterative survey for analysing ‘groupishness’

This blog post highlights the Iterative Survey’s special ability and demonstrates why the survey is considered ‘iterative’. To define a social group, we could record all experiences,...

Finding your question

Much is written in research textbooks about understanding your positioning in relation to your question. Even more is written about ensuring that your question and methodology align. But what...