Editorial: Action research: Research into action

Action research: Research into action

Lisa Pettifer, head of professional development in a large secondary school in England, proclaimed in her blog post Living with research in 2015 that, from a practitioner perspective, ‘…the...

Action research: Research into action

A number of BERA events between 2020 and 2022 enabled researchers to come together from a range of different education settings (primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education). These events...

Spring 2023

Research Intelligence issue 154: Education: The State of the Discipline

Higher education in further education: A bridge to widening participation?

Widening participation in higher education (HE) among underrepresented social groups has been a focus of successive UK governments since the 1960s. But is this actually being achieved? Delivering...

Visibility of structural injustice in early childhood degrees

The Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network advocates for a graduate-led workforce that is competent in leadership and in promoting social justice. The recently revised QAA sector benchmark for...

Dropping off a cliff: What’s really behind the fall in trainee teacher recruitment?

Graduates are giving teaching the swerve in increasing numbers. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that recruitment for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses at secondary level is...

It takes a faculty to raise an early career researcher: Strategies for developing a confident and successful ECR lecturer

Early career researchers (ECRs) are usually defined as individuals in the five years after completing a doctoral degree. These five years are fundamental in helping pave the way for a future in...

Exploring EAP through a complexity lens: A mixed methods study in North Iraq

Streaming in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) classrooms is not such a common practice, particularly in North Iraq. Having worked in the region for four years, I investigated streaming in EAP...

The research and teaching nexus in a post-pandemic world: Undoing inequalities and dysfunctions

The pandemic exposed the vulnerability of a highly marketised English higher education system. With little government support, the fears around lost income resulted in yet more competition between...

Inequalities in the discipline of education in UK higher education

Across the globe, quantitative measures in higher education (HE) are drawn upon to identify, monitor and address structural inequalities. Countries differ in their conceptions of in/equality. The...

Етичні принципи досліджень у галузі освіти, четверте видання (2018 р.)

Це четверте видання Етичних принципів досліджень у галузі освіти Британської асоціації дослідників...

Editorial: A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging

A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging

On 25 May 2022, Plymouth Institute of Education ran an international webinar, ‘Matters of “access” and “disability”: exploring and affecting systemic and cultural change in and for...