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Challenging heteronormativity in and through youth work

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. While LGBTQ+ youth work has a long history, the quality of these...

Halting the rise of character education in Britain

Character education has risen up the political agenda in the UK in recent years, as it has in a number of other countries. The United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan have...

Youth Studies and Informal Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG aims: research and scholarship relating to theory, policy and practice issues in Youth Studies and Youth and Community...

Youth activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces

The relationships between youth activism, engagement and education are vitally important in the current context, in which the pressures of globalisation and populism are emerging from and fuelling...

Ian McGimpsey

Lecturer in Education

Ian McGimpsey is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham. His work is concerned with inequality and social justice, and...

Janet Batsleer

I have worked for 30 years in the field of youth and community work, which I have understood as a field of socio-cultural and educative practice. I have contributed to the development of dialogue...

Frances Howard

Lecturer in Youth Studies

Dr Frances Howard is a senior lecturer in Youth Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She has previously worked in local authorities, arts education and youth work. Frances has recently...

Encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play

BERA has a new Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG)! It has the strategic aim of encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play across...

Learning differently: new frontiers for community collaboration, agency and identity

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. Please join us for an interactive and dynamic...

Longitudinal qualitative research to look at what works for children with conduct disorders

I was interviewing a teacher in a school for excluded pupils who had been providing one-to-one teaching to a child in a longitudinal study I was conducting. We were talking about the very...

Researching the perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with young onset dementia

As the leading cause of death in England and Wales (ONS 2017), dementia touches many families and, even if they don’t have a relative with the condition, most people at least know of someone who...

The gap year for social, emotional and vocational learning in Irish secondary education

The Irish education system includes a quasi-gap year, known as transition year (TY), midway through secondary school. Students may choose to complete six years of secondary education (including TY...