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Headteacher agency: Erosion through performativity

As part of a doctorate of education qualification at University College London, I conducted a small-scale research project for an Institute Focused Study. The project was designed to draw...

The ECR journey: From inspiration to impact

The first ever BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference in May 2023, The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact, celebrated the journey of ‘becoming’ an educational researcher. It was an...

Parental activism in education

In her final annual report as Chief Inspector of Ofsted, England’s schools and children’s services inspectorate, Amanda Spielman, opines that the Covid-19 pandemic has ‘fractured’ the...

How do we develop an education fan base?

We have been discussing the forthcoming 2024 UK general election and how we might enable debate about public education in England. We have found James O’Brien’s arguments about...

Leading Women in Higher Education

In this Leading Women seminar, we will investigate the intersections of gender, race, and geolocation in shaping women’s experiences of leadership in Higher Education. We aim to identify...

Leading Women in Higher Education

In this Leading Women seminar, we investigated the intersections of gender, race, and geolocation in shaping women's experiences of leadership in Higher Education. We aimed to identify...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Women in higher education leadership in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK: Barriers and challenges

Numerous studies in higher education have examined women’s leadership in academic institutions both within specific countries and from an international perspective (Barnard et al., 2022;...

Towards a new understanding of leadership in early childhood education and care

BERA Conference 2023

The aspiration for a transformed early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, providing vital development for children before school in England, characterised by effective leadership and...

BERA Bites, issue 9: What are we educating for?

BERA Bites

This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

House of cards: The marketisation of school leadership qualifications in England

In 2017 the Department for Education (DfE) launched National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) in middle, senior and executive leadership, as well as a revamped NPQH for headteachers, to train...