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BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 22 Jul 2025

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.

The case for acknowledging teacher beliefs for effective multilingualism in primary schools

In today’s globalised world, classrooms are becoming increasingly multilingual. This development calls for a reevaluation of traditional monolingual teaching methods and a move towards...

Global Perspectives in Teacher Education: Challenging the Standard Education Model

Leeds Beckett University, in association with the British Educational Research Association, invite you to participate in our inaugural international conference entitled Global Perspectives in...

The politics of handwriting: What is the purpose of prescriptive handwriting lessons in 2024?

How often do you handwrite and for what purpose? Perhaps you’ll write a birthday card, notes or a shopping list. No matter the context, is there a need for handwriting to be perfect? In English...

It’s good to talk: What makes an effective professional conversation?

The role of the mentor has been strengthened in initial teacher education, as a way of helping the student teacher to bridge the theory and the practice of their teaching (Welsh Government, 2018;...

Beyond employability: Rethinking the purpose of higher education

Higher education has traditionally been regarded as a path to stable employment (OECD, 2021). While this is still true for some countries, for others, economic changes and labour market saturation...

Generative AI for educators: Opening the ‘black box’ behind its use

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Generative AI (GAI) is a form of AI that utilises machine learning and deep learning techniques to generate new data (such as text and images) (Yu et al., 2023). However, teachers’ application...

BERA celebrates 10 years of the BERA Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

From the secondary classroom to semi-structured interviews: How teaching practices can inform research methods

If teachers are to continue developing their classroom practice, we need them to take risks. Very little research has considered teachers’ attitudes to voluntary risk-taking; which activities...

Why going ‘local’ could be the future of primary language learning in Scotland (and beyond!)

Scotland’s ‘1+2 languages’ policy, introduced in 2012, reflects the growing global need for multilingualism. It introduced learning a second language (L2) from age five and a third language...

Connecting classroom and community: Innovative approaches to teacher placement curriculum

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

As the only university to be newly accredited through the last UK government’s contentious Market Review process in 2022, colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) have shaped a new...

Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2024

This award, introduced for the 2024 volume, recognises the highest quality and most original and impactful articles published in Research Intelligence. Guest Editors of issues published in  2024...