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Bill Esmond

Associate Professor

Bill Esmond is Professor of Professional Education and Training at the University of Derby. His work examines the policies, structures, institutions and discourses that shape the spaces and...

Do you work in a school or in further education and have an interest in widening participation?

Professor Colin McCaig (Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr Jon Rainford (Open University) are guest-editing an upcoming special issue of BERA’s Research Intelligence magazine on the theme of...

Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG aims:  to facilitate and stimulate debate amongst researchers in the field and assist them in communicating their work to...

Winter 2019

The latest issue of Research Intelligence showcases the strength and depth of recent research on post-compulsory and lifelong learning.

Towards ‘slow pedagogy’: Revaluing the reading seminar for professional development

How ‘old school’ can it get? A text on the table and a small group of people around it. All have read the text, and gather to discuss it together. That’s the setting of a reading seminar....

Matt O’Leary

Professor of Education

Professor Matt O’Leary is a Professor of Education at Birmingham City University (BCU). In a career spanning over 25 years in education, he has worked as a teacher, teacher educator, head of...

Samantha Jones

I am an advocate for Further Education professionals researching their practice and their sector. Within my own college I have responsibility for the development and normalisation of research and...

In pursuit of the elusive doctorate: Managing the last half-mile and getting home

Frustration and confusion can dominate the doctoral writing experience, and never more so than during the last half-mile.

Call for contributions: A special issue of Research Intelligence on Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning

BERA’s Post-compulsory and Lifelong Learning special interest group (SIG) has started the process of producing a special issue of Research Intelligence, BERA’s in-house members’ magazine,...

Supporting laboratory professionals in low- and middle-income countries to learn about antimicrobial resistance on the job

Professionals working in laboratory settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) undertake a range of tasks in their day-to-day jobs. These tasks range from collecting patient specimens to...

The origins of further education in England and Wales

There is a lack of historical accounts of the further education (FE) sector in England and Wales, which is reflective of its broader historical-cultural positioning. FE sits between secondary...

Exploring learning entanglement

Learning spaces are changing. Classrooms, once filled with uniform furnishings and distinct ‘teacher’ and ‘student’ territories, are being reimagined to provide learning spaces that...