HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Summer 2022

Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning  Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...

Leaderless leading: How the pandemic has unleashed a collective impetus to ‘rethink’ further education

Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’ Wheatley, 2002 The above quote appears in a boxed feature in the inaugural edition of #JoyFE...

College leadership in a time of Covid-19: Learning to distribute leadership, learning to listen?

Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

Often teams will show you the right direction from being honest, because in a pandemic there was so much to do from a leadership point of view, and it was overwhelming at times because everything...

Positioning ‘play’ purposefully in the adult language learning classroom

The playful academic

Times are tough for university students and teachers alike in this pandemic world. ‘Play’ could offer an easy antidote to the soulnessness of digital overload. Incorporating ‘fun’ and...

Becoming a playful academic: A personal story

The playful academic

Throughout my life I have been exposed to an increasingly stressful and demanding expectation to perform, dictated not only by society (cultural pressures) but also through beliefs deeply...

New series of the BERA podcast

This autumn we have launched a new series of the BERA podcast. Over the next few weeks we will continue to feature emerging research which connects to policy and practice.  Already we have...

BERA funds over £40,000 of research on race and ethnicity

We are delighted to announce new funding looking at aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. There are five recipients of the new round of small grant funding: Melissa Jogie...

Open educational resources offer promise for more equitable teaching and learning

The past year and the pivot to online learning has highlighted and exacerbated inequities in education systems around the world. It is more apparent than ever that our schools must do better at...

Ageing in nature: Outdoor learning as lifelong learning

Wellbeing and being outdoors

MIND (2021) has adopted the New Economic Foundation’s Five Ways to Wellbeing and underscores that ‘keeping learning’ is one of the foundations of maintaining one’s wellbeing. In this blog...

The Skills for Jobs white paper: A chance to provide ‘flexibility’

The UK government’s Skills for Jobs white paper is clearly an attempt to realign post-16 education around the needs of employers. It presents a challenge for higher education to develop an...

Not another Cinderella story: Reflections on a collaboration to tell and imagine past, present and future stories of FE

For just over five years a unique project has examined the situation of further education (FE), mainly in England but also elsewhere in the UK, Australia and Ireland. The FE sector in England...