Education: The State of the Discipline – BERA publishes new report and three tenders

BERA has published the first report from a major project that aims to comprehensively map the state of education as an academic discipline in universities, as a field of practice, and as a...

Education: The State of the Discipline. Systematic scoping review of the literature

A systematic scoping review of the literature on the structures & processes that influence research activities in the UK

Postgraduate research students’ experiences of the coronavirus pandemic

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused most postgraduate research (PGR) students to encounter research restrictions and undertake their research duties from home (see Burridge et al., 2020)....

How has Covid-19 affected how teacher educators engage their students in learning?

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report presents a mixed-methods investigation of how Covid-19 affected the ways in which teacher educators in Wales engaged their students with learning, and how the switch to online delivery...

Guests in someone else’s house? Sense of belonging among ethnic minority students in a Hong Kong university

An interest in students’ sense of belonging to their universities or colleges has been gathering momentum in research on student persistence at their chosen institution (Hausmann et al., 2007;...

‘We are the most researched people in the world’: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith speaks at Cambridge on the project of decolonising education

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...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network symposium: A presenter’s perspective

Being a PhD student can be a lonely business – the challenges of sustaining momentum and motivation have been well documented even in those halcyon pre-pandemic days, including in previous posts...

Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect

There is increasing attention on geographic inequalities in access to higher education (HE). This blog summarises a recently published article (Davies, Donnelly, & Sandoval-Hernandez, 2021)...

Education for sustainability: Connecting learners with nature

Education has become an increasingly important part of the international agenda to raise awareness of how we can support action to shape a more sustainable way of life (Rieckmann, 2012). Enshrined...

Academic identity of early career social scientists in China: A focused ethnographic approach

I 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...

Reflecting on vlogs, blogs and podcasts in education research, teaching and professional development

The ubiquitous nature of the smartphone and the internet has normalised a new approach to seeking and managing information. Vlogs, blogs and podcasts (VBP) are creating literally thousands of...

Spring 2021

Research Intelligence issue 146: Contemporary issues in mental health and wellbeing in education