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BERA Research Ethics Case Studies: 3. Anticipating the application & unintended consequences of practitioner research

Research Ethics Case Studies

This third entry in BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the unintended consequences of practitioner research – or, by extension, any research project that involves multiple...

You don’t understand us!

'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...

Is written informed consent always required for educational research?

While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.

Autumn 2019

New perspectives on international, intercultural and global education

Practical and useful research? First, sort out the theory

Researchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen holds a research fellowship in the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick, where she completed her PhD on the social justice implications of playful and...

Culturally appropriate pedagogy in comparative contexts

Culture varies across different contexts, and so does pedagogy. The nexus of culture and pedagogy was one of the themes extensively discussed at the recent Comparative and International Education...

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

The first BERA Research Commission was Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four jurisdictions, led by...

In pursuit of the elusive doctorate: Managing the last half-mile and getting home

Frustration and confusion can dominate the doctoral writing experience, and never more so than during the last half-mile.

From Zero to Hero: Anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

This series of six blogs by doctorate veterans David Morris and David Cudworth offers a personal, practical account of the five key factors that they feel determined their success, in the hope...

BERA 2020 Doctoral Thesis Award and Masters Dissertation Award Now Open

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...

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

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

This event is now fully booked. Please check the other events in this series. Discussants: Dr Neil Radford and Dr Ciaran Burke BERA wants YOU if you: • Are a postgraduate research student...