Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

The stresses and strains affecting the mental health and wellbeing of those working in education settings are well documented and were evident long before Covid-19 was placed into the mix (Kidger...

Why family engagement is crucial for schools and children

As educators, we know that a child’s home environment is a vital contributory factor towards their cognitive and social development. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979)...

Practice-based learning in a special school placement: How students with the most complex communication barriers teach social work students to overcome theirs

People with learning disabilities are one of the most disadvantaged groups in our society (EHRC, 2016); they experience the most barriers to schools, services and communities. They are often...

Understanding and mitigating the impact of Covid-19 disruption on trainee and early career teachers in secondary schools

Covid-19, education and educational research

Covid-19 has led to significant disruption in the established systems and practices of preparing new teachers. This blog post reports on the findings and recommendations from an Economic and...

‘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...

Bringing educational isolation into focus: Identifying non-urban schools and targeting resources to improve educational outcomes

Imagine you’re a student in an isolated secondary school in a rural, coastal or former industrial area of England. You look and sound like all your classmates; there’s very little diversity....

School exclusions: What does research tell us about the scale of the problem and challenges?

School exclusion is a hot issue within education and there is growing concern about the numbers of exclusions and off-rolling in schools in England. In particular, a number of studies have drawn...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...

Autumn 2022

Research Intelligence issue 152: SOS (Save Our Staff): Protecting & enhancing staff wellbeing in education

Gender diversity in the school workforce across the UK home nations

Due to the budgetary pressures of the 2008 financial crisis the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a public sector pay freeze in 2010. In 2013 the pay freeze was...

Achieving mastery: Pupils’ perspectives on engaging with feedback and assessment in secondary school

Introduction  Assessment and feedback play a key role in pupils’ learning at all levels of education. However, there is much debate about whether feedback, in particular, is given in a way...

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020: Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability (EfES)

The final manifesto from the BERA-funded research commission on environmental sustainability calls for sustainability to become a key feature of the curriculum, inspections and other...