These are our stories: Affording children and teachers’ voices in participatory research

Choosing a mixed-method approach as the basis for my EdD journey was a moral as opposed to a methodological decision, based on my own values and beliefs. If I was to explore the lived lives of the...

The BERA ECR Career Development Fellowship: 2021 fellows share their stories

The BERA Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support early career researchers (ECRs) in the first three years following the completion of their doctoral...

‘Learning for All’

BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...

Framing research: Critical Discourse Studies and early childhood educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

During the process of undertaking doctoral research, it is important to acknowledge the research journey and emphasise your rationale for conducting that specific research project. This relates to...

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

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I am very grateful to Yan Zhu (BERA Early Career Researcher [ECR] Regional Rep for Wales) for inviting me to act as a discussant for the March event in the BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

Reflexivity in conducting qualitative educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Introduction In this piece, two early career researchers (ECRs), Muna and Nour, reflect on their experience of conducting qualitative research. The blog post is a continuation of the vibrant...

Methodologies don’t hurt people, bad people wielding methodologies do: Autoethnography and that paper from Qualitative Research

This blog is inspired by the recent controversy surrounding that paper published in Qualitative Research. The paper, titled ‘I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an...

How experiences as a research participant inspired an explicit commitment to parents taking part in a doctoral research inquiry

I cannot remember how many research studies I have been involved in over the past 17 years. This is not because I am an established researcher – on the contrary! Rather, it is because my...

HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Collaging childhoods’ relationships 

In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...

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...