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The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone...
Have Your Say: BERA Member Survey 2024
BERA is striving to continuously improve our services and better support our community of educational researchers. To help achieve this, we are launching the 2024 Member Survey, and we want to...
Mind the responsible use of AI in education: Bridging the gaps
Our research indicates that the landscape of responsible AI use in education is uneven. Tight school budgets necessitate careful planning for teachers’ professional development, prompting us to...
BERA Insights: In conversation with… Lani Florian, BERA AGM and Awards Ceremony
This event will mark the culmination of BERA's 50th anniversary celebrations alongside our more formal AGM. We will finish with a drinks reception, canapés and the ceremonial cutting of a...
Podcast Series: The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Educational Research
Implications for Policy and Practice
The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum
Equity and Inclusion in Educational Research and Practice
Upcoming events
BERA Insights: In conversation with… Lani Florian, BERA AGM and Awards Ceremony
This event will mark the culmination of BERA's 50th anniversary celebrations alongside our more formal AGM. We will finish with a drinks reception, canapés and the ceremonial cutting of a...
Learning about Race Equality from Norway
This event will have a clear international and anti-racist perspective. The speaker is Kristin Gregers Erikson, an Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her...
BERA/CCEAM – Teacher Training for Equity: Empowering Democratic Languages and Cultures to Inform Policy
A BERA & CCEAM joint event This year's CCEAM / BERA seminar argues that teachers are crucial in promoting equity in education by fostering democratic languages and cultures (inclusive practices...
Neurodivergent Researcher Network Coffee hour
The Neurodivergent Researcher Network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent researchers to come together, collaborate, offer mutual support, and share experiences. Our coffee hours...
BERA Teacher Network
The BERA Teacher Network is an inclusive community of educators from early years, primary, and secondary schools and further, adult and vocational education in the UK. The network serves as a...
Early Career Researcher Network
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those who are in the process of completing their masters or doctorate in education, as well as those who have completed...
Neurodivergent Researchers Network
The BERA Neurodivergent Researchers Network is a new initiative launched by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). The network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent...
Event Videos
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Mind the responsible use of AI in education: Bridging the gaps
Our research indicates that the landscape of responsible AI use in education is uneven. Tight school budgets necessitate careful planning for teachers’ professional development, prompting us to...
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Getting to children’s eye level: Learning to be a teachable researcher
Research on children’s videogame play has shifted focus to examine digital play experiences in a broader, postdigital context (see for example Marsh, 2019). Methodologically, much of this...
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Global connections: A postgraduate researcher’s perspective on international conferences
Doctoral student life is multifaceted and challenging, particularly in today’s competitive academic environment. High expectations and increasing pressure on performance and professional...
Continue reading blog postSix parent role types in the corporatised governance of multi-academy trusts: Products and enablers of a corporate game
Internationally, the marketisation of schooling has re-imagined schools as businesses (Ball, 2017) calling for those with business skills take on the role of school governance (Wilkins, 2015)....
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