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Protect academic integrity by refusing to waive your legal rights

Academics’ reputations – certainly those beyond their own students and colleagues – are largely determined by how others judge their research reports and other scholarly writing. So it is...

PhDs by published works

With increasing pressure on academics and other professionals to gain doctorates to assure career progression, doing a PhD by published work (PhDPW) makes eminent sense. This is particularly true...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Cardiff)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

  Discussants: Dr Sara Delamont and Professor David James,  Cardiff University     Registrations for this event are now closed. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like...

The benefits of undergraduate research

Undergraduate students are not often valued as, or considered to be, researchers. Evidence suggests, however, that by providing undergraduates with research opportunities we upskill our students,...

Assessing the knowledge generated by practice-based postgraduate research

Research is an integral part of many postgraduate programmes, and in many disciplines, such as health and education, research is frequently related to the professional role. In programmes such as...

BERA-BAICE Writing for Publications Workshop

  This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.   This workshop is targeted at PGRs...

BERA’s postgraduate symposium: A lifebelt in the methodological mire

As a doctoral student, BERA’s Postgraduate Forum symposium on research methodology seemed the perfect opportunity to present the methodological aspects of my research to a critical audience...

Negotiating the qualitative-quantitative divide: the best of both

The BERA Postgraduate Forum research symposium I attended provided me with the opportunity to present my work in a supportive and critically constructive environment, providing me with invaluable...

The experiences and ‘light-bulb moment’ of an early career researcher following a BERA Postgraduate Forum symposium

Though I didn’t realise it at the time, studying while working in the early years sector marked the emergence of my research interests. I was a practitioner at the forefront of new government...

Walking interviews: A participatory research tool with legs?

Last autumn I was lucky enough to attend one of a series of BERA Postgraduate Forum events that focussed on research methodology. It was pleasing to see that many of the postgraduates in...

Creative and Innovative Methodologies in Educational Research

This event is currently fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.     Methodological innovation...

Postgraduate Symposium Series – South West: Practical Issues in Conducting Educational Research

  South West Symposium: Dr. Tingting Yuan, Dr. Graham Downs, & Dr. Lindsay Homer, Bath Spa University     This event is now fully booked, however there are still bursary places...