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Educational Leadership Through and Beyond the Pandemic

Considering a rapidly growing literature, the impact of, and responses to, the pandemic on schools are described and implications for education and educational leadership considered. Whilst the...

To EdD or not to EdD: Why is the Doctor of Education programme becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals?

The EdD has become increasingly popular as the route to a doctorate for the educational professional. When we embarked on our own EdDs some years ago there were not too many to choose from; now...

A matter of inclusion: Schools continue to navigate government advice in support of students

Covid-19, education and educational research

As the school year in England begins once again against an evolving Covid-19 backdrop, we ask what this latest set of circumstances means for issues of inclusion, including which students will...

The role of schools in the mental health of children & young people

This report presents a comprehensive review of the existing evidence on school-based approaches to mental health. It covers what is meant by mental health and wellbeing, and why this is...

Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...

The corridors of silence

Our vernacular is somewhat noisy with idioms of silence: deafening silences; as silent as the grave; a wall of silence; suffering in silence. Other idioms offer implicit references to silence,...

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of 14 research projects  that have investigated Covid-19's impact on important aspects of education and educational research. This...

Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   #toptipsandtriggers In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the...

Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools

In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the Practitioner Researchers SIG hosted the Principles into Practice event. An event was requested to find out how/why Head...

Post Pandemic Leadership

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   #BERAEdLeadership @BERANews According to the free market fundamentalist Milton freedman,...

Post Pandemic Leadership

According to the free market fundamentalist Milton freedman, ‘Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the...

We need an evidence-based expert approach to the post-pandemic recovery of young people

Covid-19, education and educational research

In December 2020, the Westminster government promised to set up an expert group to consider solutions to the huge variability of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on pupils’ educational...