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Who really belongs in higher education? Insights from research with disabled staff and PhD students in the UK

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In this blog post we offer some insights from a recent study among disabled staff and PhD students in the UK to consider what it means to un/belong in the current higher education (HE)...

Storytelling in music education

Storytelling is an exciting and powerful way of approaching education research that has the potential to explore the professional lives of educators in a meaningful way. Over time, I have gained...

Future-ready business schools: Harnessing simulation games for assessment and a global working environment

This blog post aims to illustrate how business schools can use simulation games as an assessment tool to provide authentic real-world situations. In essence, simulations and games replicate...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

BERA Bites, issue 10: Employability education – learning from the present: A cross-sector view

In an era characterised by rapid technological advancements, globalisation and shifting labour market dynamics, the concept of employability has emerged as a central concern in education. As...

How can we simultaneously tackle the educational objectives of employability and social justice?

Employability has become a key metric for higher education institutions (HEIs) in the 21st century. For example, the Office for Students (OfS), the regulator of higher education provision in...

(Too) late to the party? Doctoral research as a mature, disabled parent-carer

I never expected to resume my academic life in my forties. So ambivalent were my feelings after my undergraduate experience that it was a decade before I embarked on a teaching qualification,...

When ‘compassion’ is not enough: An argument for adaptive critical pedagogy in higher education

Compassionate pedagogy has gained international traction in recent educational discourse, advocating for empathy, understanding and flexibility in teaching practices and settings, particularly...

BERJ Early Career Reviewer Scheme: Call for mentors

The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is pleased to launch its Early Career Reviewer Scheme that aims to build early career researchers’ capacities in academic peer reviewing. This...

Teaching on the cheap? The extent and impact of teaching assistants covering classes and leading lessons

England is running out of teachers. Excessive workload, bureaucratic demands and inadequate systems of support have driven down rates of job satisfaction, and with it, rates of teacher recruitment...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.