‘Learning for All’
BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
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Developing workplace support for childhood trauma survivors: A toolkit for employers
The extent of childhood trauma in our society is only too apparent when you read the data. One in five adults, for example, aged 18 to 74 years has experienced at least one form of child abuse...
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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
‘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...
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College leadership in a time of Covid-19: Learning to distribute leadership, learning to listen?
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...
Continue reading blog postPositioning ‘play’ purposefully in the adult language learning classroom
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...
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Becoming a playful academic: A personal story
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...
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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...
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Ageing in nature: Outdoor learning as lifelong learning
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...
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