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A suite of pedagogic research support: The Octopus

Providing pedagogic research support is critical because integrating pedagogic research into teaching practice is neither automatic nor effortless (Stierer & Antoniou, 2004). Existing literature...

BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment

BERA Bites

Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...

Neoliberal metrics and a curriculum for competence

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Neoliberalism – the free market ideology of individual liberty and choice, combined with limited government interference in a competitive marketplace – has been a growing international trend...

Spring 2025

Research Intelligence issue 162: International comparative education

Exploring ‘equivalences’ in the UK’s REF and India’s NRF: A comparative enquiry

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

In recent years, both the UK and India have demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing research excellence through strategic frameworks – the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) and...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...

Winter 2024/25

Research Intelligence issue 161: Reclaiming teacher education: Opportunities for a research informed & politically engaged profession

The perceptions and challenges of East Asian students in UK higher education

Over the past two decades, the total enrolments in UK higher education (HE) from China, Hong Kong, Japan and other East Asian countries have risen from fewer than 100,000 in 2002/03 to a record...

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Frontlines of climate change education

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study considers some of the ethical issues related to sustainability and environmental responsibility in relation to educational research. It highlights how environmental implications...

Civic participation in the Chilean School system: Divergent tales of influence

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

What is the purpose of our research? Promoting civic participation is key to developing engaged and active citizens. The school system in Chile has developed multiple opportunities for civic...

Maximising mathematics achievement with less homework time: The role of self-regulated learning motivational components

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The existing research and proposal questions Homework is a self-regulated learning (SRL) activity that constitutes a large proportion of learning time. In mathematics education, studies have...