Winter 2022/23

Research Intelligence issue 153: Off the cutting room floor: Learning from research when things do not go as planned

The value of student researcher groups in carrying out peer evaluation in schools and colleges

Student researcher groups are small groups of secondary school and A-level college students, aged 13 to 18, who evaluate outreach activities – such as motivational speakers, study skills...

Researching youth: An educational methodology

Young people are the primary constituency of most educational institutions. Questions of socialisation, the transition into economic participation and the duties of citizenship are important...

Positionality and reflexivity for early career researchers and postgraduate researchers

As researchers, we have an ethical responsibility to recognise the potential impact our background and beliefs have on the decisions we make when conducting research. As early career researchers...

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...