Education research: Northern Ireland
Education in Northern Ireland (NI) is characterised by segregation along religious/sectarian lines underpinned by a long history of religious tensions and fractured politics. Ninety-three per...
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Editorial: Education research: Northern Ireland
Education in Northern Ireland (NI) is characterised by segregation along religious/sectarian lines underpinned by a long history of religious tensions and fractured politics. Ninety-three per...
Continue reading blog postA closer look at the Future Schools Toolkit
The proliferation of schools, management bodies and sectoral support organisations reflects the socio-cultural and political history of division in Northern Irish society. However, as recognised...
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Learning from Covid-19 research in Northern Ireland: Resetting expectations for school–home–community partnerships
The impact of Covid-19 on learning experiences has dominated educational discourse over the past two years. Education practitioners and policymakers now have at their disposal a rich evidence base...
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‘Learning for All’
BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
‘Why won’t you leave?’ The question we should be asking nursery staff who choose to stay in the profession
Workforce statistics in the field of early years education and childcare (EYEC) are frequently tendered as proof of how the UK system of nursery recruitment and retention is flawed, failing or...
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Autumn 2022
Research Intelligence issue 152: SOS (Save Our Staff): Protecting & enhancing staff wellbeing in education
‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging
‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...
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Even More Leadership? A time to reflect
In 2005 I gave my inaugural lecture entitled More Leadership. Having now taken early retirement (to get on with my work), my professor emerita lecture reviews these ideas under the title Even More...
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Leading in a complex world: Enabling leadership practices to support innovation, change and resilience
Academic leaders in higher education (HE) have faced a sustained period of unprecedented and complex change due to Covid-19. Leadership capability and adaptability has been tested, and there have...
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Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
Leaderless leading: How the pandemic has unleashed a collective impetus to ‘rethink’ further education
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’ Wheatley, 2002 The above quote appears in a boxed feature in the inaugural edition of #JoyFE...
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