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BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research – Aberystwyth

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research: Theories, Concepts and Reflexivity in Educational Research

The theme for 2020 is ‘Framing Research: Theories, Concepts and Reflexivity in Educational Research This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for,...

Editorial: The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent

BERA members, through informal conversation, recognised that there was a danger that qualitative studies may become under threat from not being approved by ethical committees in an increasingly...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Strathclyde)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Discussants: Professor Kate Wall, Dr Alan Huang and Dr...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research: Theories, Concepts and Reflexivity in Educational Research

Every year the ECR Network runs a number of events every year, including an annual symposia series across the four nations focusing on a theme.   The theme for 2020 is ‘Framing Research:...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Edge Hill)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.  Discussants: Professor Amanda Fulford and Dr Mike...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...

Academic or practitioner? Border-crossings and close-to-practice research

My professional career started in the mid-1980s. It has involved a journey from school teaching into higher education: I have worked as a research fellow, lecturer, professor and university senior...

Nomadic enquiry: Reimagining research ethics for ‘posthuman’ times

Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Staffordshire)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Discussants: Dr Jane Rowley  and Sharon Inglis  BERA wants YOU if...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 1. Twitter, data collection & informed consent

Research Ethics Case Studies

BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series begins by looking at the ethical issues that can arise when using social media as a means to recruit participants or gather data. To what extent are...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 2. Researcher wellbeing & international fieldwork

Research Ethics Case Studies

Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s  Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the ethical issues that arise not only...