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On Thursday 3 June, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith addressed the University of Cambridge’s annual conference at the Faculty of Education. Smith is ending her time as professor of education and...
Continue reading blog postKO AHAU TE AWA KO TE AWA KO AHAU I AM THE RIVER, AND THE RIVER IS ME Pleasurable experiences in nature can lead to the development of a positive attitude and active engagement with the natural...
Continue reading blog postPaul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...
Continue reading blog postWhen you invest years in thinking about what populism is and how it manifests on social media, it is easy to forget that, for many, ‘populism’ is seen as a negative term, and that individuals...
Continue reading blog postThe Covid-19 pandemic has given new currency to the idea of resilience, in terms of adapting to and recovering from adversity. However, in recent years the discourse of resilience has become...
Continue reading blog postThe north-east of England is one of the toughest places in the country for young people to gain employment (Carter, 2012). Young people from the region are more likely to drop out of education at...
Continue reading blog postI really enjoyed participating in the BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network’s symposium series, which is a great platform for practitioners and researchers to get together and talk about...
Continue reading blog postAt the beginning of January the prime minister claimed that reopening schools was safe and that the benefits of children being in school were ‘huge’ (BBC News, 2021). While educational...
Continue reading blog postEducation research hit the headlines recently. The BBC reported research claiming that time spent out of school due to coronavirus could cost each child £40,000 in lifetime earnings. By the time...
Continue reading blog postOnline registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_SocialTheory @BERANews This session will launch a new edited collection pertaining to...
This blog is a reflection on the recent ‘special section’ in Research Intelligence issue 144 entitled ‘How we can improve the use of research evidence (in practice)’, edited by Stephen...
Continue reading blog post#BERA_theory Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. In this talk we argue that educational researchers should consider more fully...
