Towards ‘slow pedagogy’: Revaluing the reading seminar for professional development

How ‘old school’ can it get? A text on the table and a small group of people around it. All have read the text, and gather to discuss it together. That’s the setting of a reading seminar....

Research Ethics Case Studies: 2. Researcher wellbeing & international fieldwork

Research Ethics Case Studies

Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s  Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the ethical issues that arise not only...

Informed consent and assent, and the ethical review process, with/for research with the very young

The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent

This post introduces the challenges associated with gaining ethical review board approval, and securing the informed consent and assent of participant families, in educational research. It draws...

You don’t understand us!

The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent

'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...

Open Access

Here is the place to find briefings and information as well as BERA's public statements on open access developments. BERA continues to monitor developments around Plan S and open access. Our...

Is written informed consent always required for educational research?

The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent

While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.

Autumn 2019

New perspectives on international, intercultural and global education

In pursuit of the elusive doctorate: Managing the last half-mile and getting home

From Zero to Hero: Anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

Frustration and confusion can dominate the doctoral writing experience, and never more so than during the last half-mile.

Earth surface modeling for education: How effective is it?

Mixed or inconclusive results regarding the effect of computer simulations in enhancing students’ learning have been reported in the literature (see for example Edsall & Wentz, 2007)....

Engagement in business simulation games: A self-system model of motivational development

The concept of student engagement has attracted increasing attention over recent years due to its potential predictiveness of students’ learning outcomes, and to the fact that student...

Challenging consumerism through education as human development

The culture of transforming everything into products to be ‘consumed by the market’ is manifesting itself as a global pathology. This trend is destroying longstanding communities of practice...

Where is the ‘theory’ within the field of educational technology research?

We know that research in the field of educational technology has grown substantially in importance over the last decade or so – mainly due to the huge investment by many governments in...