Journal peer review: Higher Education Research & Development

As one of the co-editors of Higher Education Research & Development, I had the privilege to meet early career researchers from BERA in October 2022 via Zoom. After I introduced the journal Higher...

Journal peer review: What applied linguistics journal editors look for

As a co-editor-in-chief for the journal System (long name An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics), I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about my...

Are EdTech companies the casualties or winners of educational evidence wars?

For more than a decade, evidence was a vague buzzword in the EdTech (Educational Technology) circles. The mixed bag of EdTech evidence claims included product endorsements and vendor-collected...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022: Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research – October

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network Symposium Series offers so much to ECRs. Presenters are given the opportunity to reflect on a key aspect of their research and gain feedback from...

Making decisions in researcher positionality

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I was privileged to attend and present at the October event in the BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network Symposium Series 2022. As an ECR, the opportunity to explore the dilemmas I faced when...

Research reflexivity during Covid-19

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

In this blog post, I reflect on my experience of research reflexivity when conducting a PhD study during the Covid-19 outbreak. This piece is a result of presenting at the Early Career Researcher...

‘Who are you?’ Moving from reflexivity to self-reflexivity in educational research with marginalised groups

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

In this blog post, I consider my critical engagement with my positionality beyond reflexivity to self-reflexivity. When conducting my literature search for my thesis, I noticed that...

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...

Doing action research ethically

Action research: Research into action

Depending on which literature we use, ‘action research’ may be defined in slightly different ways. Some researchers emphasise the iterative cycles of exploring an issue before developing,...

Teaching and learning communities as a vehicle for developing action research

Action research: Research into action

Over the past eighteen months, our teaching and learning community (TLC) has been working on an action research project designed to develop metacognitive strategies and cultivate self-directed...

The action research gardener: How doing action research restores my emotional energy

Action research: Research into action

A central question to my action research (AR) asks how a teacher-educator can improve her practice to support trainee-teacher learning during teaching practice (TP). My research was prompted by...

Values for practice: Living educational theory research

Action research: Research into action

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight the importance of researchers bringing their own personal values to educational research and how living values – which demonstrate respect for...