BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers
Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...
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The research and teaching nexus in a post-pandemic world: Undoing inequalities and dysfunctions
The pandemic exposed the vulnerability of a highly marketised English higher education system. With little government support, the fears around lost income resulted in yet more competition between...
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Inequalities in the discipline of education in UK higher education
Across the globe, quantitative measures in higher education (HE) are drawn upon to identify, monitor and address structural inequalities. Countries differ in their conceptions of in/equality. The...
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Researching Gender & Sexuality in Educational Settings: An event for PGRs and ECRs
There has never been a more important time for educational research into gender and sexualities, with numerous emerging challenges and opportunities for educational researchers to engage with...
Education: The State of the Discipline. Staff equality in UK higher education
An exploration of existing statistical data relating to staff equality in UK higher education
Reflections on using western survey techniques in Chinese contexts
This blog presents a possible example to apply western survey instruments to probe into the impact of gender and social economic status (SES) on career choices of engineering undergraduates in...
Continue reading blog postEveryone’s Invited?: becoming response-able in addressing sexual harassment in primary, secondary and special schools
The first parliamentary inquiry report into sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools was launched in late 2016 by the Women and Equalities Committee. It included more than 70 submissions...
Educational attainment in Northern Ireland: Understanding inequalities through administrative data
Educational attainment inequalities receive continuous policy attention across the UK with certain social groups consistently underachieving. Our study (Early et al., 2022) used the first record...
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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...
LGBTQ+ Children and Young People in Education
Individual papers presented under the theme Sexualities and Gender Chair: Richard Harris IN THIS SESSION An examination of LGBTQ+ students’ lived experiences in secondary schools Prof...
Gender diversity in the school workforce across the UK home nations
Due to the budgetary pressures of the 2008 financial crisis the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a public sector pay freeze in 2010. In 2013 the pay freeze was...
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Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications
Gender stereotypes continue to play a significant role in how children imagine their future careers, and in the long term, these stereotypes may limit opportunities for both boys and girls. We...
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