To whom an EdD may concern: Pragmatic reflections and useful considerations

The purpose of this blog post is to share our experiences as part-time, remote Doctor of Education (EdD) candidates. We hope this will be enlightening for educational professionals who are...

Even More Leadership? A time to reflect

In 2005 I gave my inaugural lecture entitled More Leadership. Having now taken early retirement (to get on with my work), my professor emerita lecture reviews these ideas under the title Even More...

Researcher for our Ethical Guidelines review group

BERA has started to review the 2018 BERA ethical guidelines in the light of contemporary issues around research ethics for educational research. A review group chaired by Alison Fox has been...

Spring 2022

Education for environmental sustainability Research Intelligence issue 150 This 150th issue of Research Intelligence reflects and builds upon the renewed focus on education for environmental...

Leading in a complex world: Enabling leadership practices to support innovation, change and resilience

Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

Academic leaders in higher education (HE) have faced a sustained period of unprecedented and complex change due to Covid-19. Leadership capability and adaptability has been tested, and there have...

Graduating with another hole in your pocket

This blog post discusses how some families and supporters pay considerably more than others to attend UK graduation ceremonies. This much we already know: higher education is costly. According to...

Join the working group recommending revisions to BERA’s Ethical Guidelines

BERA are inviting applications from across the educational research community to join a working group that will review and make recommendations for the revision of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for...

Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação, quarta edição (2018)

Esta quarta edição, extensivamente revisada, ampliada e atualizada das Diretrizes Éticas para Pesquisa em Educação da BERA foi concebida para apoiar pesquisadores educacionais na condução...

Online in-depth interviewing: Covid-induced challenges

Covid-19, education and educational research

Lived experiences do not vanish into thin air like a mirage. They can be revisited under certain conditions using a relevant qualitative method. Simply asserting that a one-to-one in-depth...

Editorial: The playful academic

The playful academic

Imagine a place of learning where progressive failing, building resilience, and developing individual and collective skills, values and creativity are not only thought about as a theoretical...

Playful creativity

The playful academic

‘Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.’ (Attributed to Jean Piaget) Learning is often compromised by competitiveness (Brown & Vaughan, 2009). Bred from the...

Playful interventions: Measuring impact on learning

The playful academic

Figure 1: PMM tracking individuals’ understanding of ‘playfulness and me’ over the course of several workshops and a field trip. Red text was added before any workshops were...