Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

Education: The State of the Discipline. Survey of education researchers

A survey of education researchers’ work, experiences and identities

Complex realism and educational research

My current ESRC-funded PhD research crosses the boundaries of linear thinking by drawing on ‘complex realism’ – the conceptual framework through which I investigate the mechanisms that lead...

Spring 2023

Research Intelligence issue 154: Education: The State of the Discipline

Design research: A ‘tomorrow’ approach that needs consideration ‘today’?

Design research (or design-based research) is a methodological framework that focuses on the ‘tomorrow’; that is, the design of education as it could or should be (Bakker, 2018). Informed by a...

Collaborative learning within custodial education

The benefits of collaborative learning are clearly outlined in educational discourse, including: increased achievements, widening knowledge, improvement in teamwork skills and deeper critical...

Inequalities in the discipline of education in UK higher education

Across the globe, quantitative measures in higher education (HE) are drawn upon to identify, monitor and address structural inequalities. Countries differ in their conceptions of in/equality. The...

Education: The State of the Discipline. Staff equality in UK higher education

An exploration of existing statistical data relating to staff equality in UK higher education

The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2022

BERA Blog end of year highlights

Yuletide greetings and festive cheer to all our readers and authors, wherever you may be. In these challenging times, we thank all of you for your continued support, enthusiasm and engagement with...

Can a whole-school curriculum focus on celebrating diversity reduce the volume of racist incidents?

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

This project, funded by the 2021–2022 British Curriculum Forum (BCF) Curriculum Investigation Grant, involved finding ways to celebrate diversity within a Welsh school and its school curriculum....

BERA BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Winner awarded Betty Campbell Diversity Award

Llanwern High School, the 2021 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant winners have been awarded the first Betty Campbell MBe award for promoting the contributions and perspectives of Black, Asian and...

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...