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Reading Rita and saving Arthur Seaton: Exploring mature students’ scholarly ‘becoming’ and the failures of working-class education

I was thrilled to present my research at the BERA ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming Conference at the University of Leeds in June 2024. This event gave me the opportunity to discuss the...

Food poverty among students: What is the role of universities?

In the UK, the number of people reported to be living in ‘food insecure’ households rose from 4.7 million (7 per cent) in 2021/22 to 7.2 million (11 per cent) in 2022/23 (Francis-Devine,...

The extreme tipping point of disadvantage: Decolonial approaches to understand persistent gaps

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Across North America and the United Kingdom, children attending schools in urban, low-income, ethnically enriched neighbourhoods continue to experience significantly lower academic achievement in...

Transforming teacher education through transdisciplinary communities of practice for sustainability education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Education is vital for the urgently needed transition to more fair and sustainable futures. However, in order to fulfil this potential, education itself must be transformed. Teachers are central...

Is respectful relationships education the answer to ending violence against women and girls?

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practiceBERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In recent years, Australian and British governments have given renewed attention to developing policies that address gender inequality, particularly violence against women and girls (VAWG)....

Schooling in a ‘divided’ city: Exploring reparative justice in education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) project explores the geographic production of injustices in primary school education in the city of Bristol, England. We consider how ‘geographic...

Curriculum in a Changing World

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

Amplifying the invisible, the overlooked and marginalised: Methods that support children in sharing their lived experiences of racism

For social justice to emerge, society must re-focus on whose voices are heard. If you are a researcher who does not belong to the marginalised group you are working with, it can be challenging to...

Quality and the redescription of social class in education policy

Twelve years ago, Diane Reay argued that neoliberalism in the UK had ‘worked to bury social class’ (Reay, 2012: p. 592). This is not an unproblematic comment: it turns neoliberalism into an...

Autumn 2024

Research Intelligence issue 160: Democracy & education

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

BERA Bites

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...