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‘So I suppose they think I’m a failure’: How schools (unwittingly) marginalise white working-class families

BERA Conference 2023

This blog post relates to a qualitative research project focused on the engagement and achievement of white working-class students carried out in three comprehensive secondary schools in an inner...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

Crafting inclusive research approaches

BERA Conference 2023

Take three postgraduate researchers with a shared interest in developing inclusive approaches to disability and education, a carrier bag of magazines donated by the Women’s Institute, scissors...

Opportunity to help address the challenging histories of UK education’s past

BERA is supporting the British Psychological Society (BPS) in creating a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. The resource...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Researching gender and sexuality

Gender and sexualities research carries unique sensitivities and challenges that can create a range of barriers for postgraduate and early career educational researchers. The event Researching...

Meet and Discuss – Inclusive Education

This Inclusive Education SIG meeting was held to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG and plans for 2024 and onwards. This meeting was hosted online, with the...

One size does not fit all: Supporting dyspraxic students in higher education in England

Dyspraxia, also known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), is a lifelong, neurodevelopmental disorder which affects an estimated 10 per cent of the UK population (Dyspraxia Foundation,...

The ‘Diverse Model’: A new way of perceiving disability?

The term ‘disability’ includes various impairments affecting physical, mental, intellectual or sensory abilities. According to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

Inclusive Education Convenor 2024-2027

There is an opportunity for a new SIG Convenor to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years. SIG Convenors are volunteers whose main role is to co-ordinate, oversee and develop the mission and...

A vital role for further education: Educating extra-ordinary young people

This blog post focuses on the overlooked and precarious middle in the English education system: further education and the young people who participate in it. In Helena Kennedy’s words, further...