Transgender Equality Inquiry
In January of this year, the Women and Equalities Select Committee released its report of its inquiry into transgender equality. The inquiry comprised of evidence from transgender community...
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Motherhood, career and leadership: time to re-think the gender binary?
Although women constitute more than half of the secondary teaching workforce in the UK, they continue to be underrepresented in senior leadership, especially headship. There are multifarious...
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The pervasive binary Vs Queer Youth
I was invited to write this blog piece as a request for a piece on Transgenderism through the Sexuality’s SIG and couldn’t help but see tension and conflict within this request. This tension...
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Shifting identities: a mixed-methods study of the experiences of teachers who are also parents
My research project, for a Doctorate in Education at Middlesex University, examines the experiences of teacher-parents in UK maintained schools, and poses the central question: What is the...
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Educational leadership: what are the current issues and how should they be studied?
2016 is a great time to review the state of educational leadership research and reflect on firstly, what are the key contemporary issues and secondly, how best to research them. Educational...
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Fair and Equal Education: An Evidence-based Policy Manifesto that Respects Children and Young People
Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email events@bera.ac.uk. On March 10, 2015 BERA will hold "Fair and Equal Education: An...
Gender, sexuality and young people: After No Outsiders
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together early career researchers whose work explores issues around gender, sexuality, and young people. Being in collaboration with the...
Respecting Children and Young People – blog launched
This week marks the launch of our blog for the Respecting Children and Young People project. You can read more about the project here and here. Please engage with this project - we need your...
Respecting Children and Young People: Learning from the past, redesigning the future
Educational researchers in six of BERA's special interest groups have drawn up a new evidence-based manifesto detailing how research should serve as the basis for future education policies. The...
Sexualities and Gender
The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform...