Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Developing (language) learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at higher education institutions

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Charting possibilities, challenges & recommendations

Education: The State of the Discipline

This project aims to provide a clear, comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline in universities; as a field of practice; and as a significant and central element of...

Designing online teaching curriculum to optimise learning for all students in higher education

Disruptions to learning and teaching in higher education during Covid-19 resulted in an abrupt shift towards online curricula (Salas-Pilco et al., 2022). This presented a range of concerns and...

What do Home Office plans to remove dependent student visas reveal about the invisibility of student-parents?

Access to UK universities cannot be taken for granted; it has taken centuries for the working class, women and migrants from developing nations to be matriculated. My PhD study explores how...

Mics and cameras off again! Student teachers’ experiences of navigating the challenges of teaching in digital classrooms

As a result of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in 2020–21, most education providers in England relied on various online platforms and digital technologies to maintain their provision (Ofqual,...

Education: The State of the Discipline. High-impact educational research

As part of the association’s major initiative, Education: The State of the Discipline, BERA has brought together 16 case studies to demonstrate the outstanding impact of educational research...

The potential of mobilising interdisciplinary peer-to-peer mentoring between PhD students: Initial reflections from a pilot study

There is growing interest in using coaching and mentoring strategies to improve the learning and development experiences of postgraduate research students. Previous studies from England and...

Pedagogical differences between school and university styles of study? The urgent need for information

There are many things about university which go unsaid with students. Academics write about them a lot; but the complaints, concerns and empirical and theoretical research about the university and...

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

The teacher recruitment freefall: Opening the parachute requires us to understand our prospective teachers better

In their BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ Innes et al. (2023) break down four areas of policy which they suggest are the ‘real driver’ of frighteningly low teacher training...