Adapting one-to-one reading support for children during Covid-19 school closures
Innovations and challenges among reading recovery teachers in Bristol
Publication series
Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of 14 research projects that have investigated Covid-19’s impact on important aspects of education and educational research. This work, supported by the first round of BERA’s Small Grants Fund (SGF), covers issues and themes of ongoing relevance as our education systems and societies continue to readjust, including:
- socioeconomic disadvantage
- supporting teachers and schools
- early years
- special educational needs
- online learning.
Through the SGF, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will:
- make important contributions to the discipline by contributing to and leading current debates
- develop research capacity by involving postgraduate students and early career researchers
- receive applications from and involving practitioners and policymakers as well as academic researchers.
What sources of data did teachers use to inform remote teaching under Covid-19?
Exploring how teachers collected and used data to make decisions about their practice while working in uncertain, rapidly changing conditions during lockdown and school closures, this report...
Teaching English when schools are closed: Experiences & lessons learned
Following their closure to most students in March 2020, schools in England addressed the pedagogical challenge of remote learning using approaches that varied according not only to school culture...
How has Covid-19 affected how teacher educators engage their students in learning?
This report presents a mixed-methods investigation of how Covid-19 affected the ways in which teacher educators in Wales engaged their students with learning, and how the switch to online delivery...
Exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health & wellbeing of learners with autism
Documenting an explorative qualitative study involving 20 learners with autism aged 14–19 based in the West Midlands region of England, this report considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Exclusion & the strategic leadership role of special educational needs co-ordinators in England
This report asks whether and how special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) participated in Covid-19-induced school planning for lockdown, provision for vulnerable pupils and full school...
Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol
Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years
The experiences of autistic young people & their parents of lockdown & the reopening of schools
This report summarises findings of research into how families of autistic children and young people attending mainstream schools in England experienced and responded to home-schooling and...
Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis
This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...
The impact of Covid-19 on early years settings & their staffing decisions
This report shares insights into how Covid-19 impacted upon on the early years workforce in England, Wales and Scotland during the first year of the pandemic, focusing on how pre-existing issues...
The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health & learning of young children
This report investigates the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and learning of young children through surveys and interviews with early years practitioners, and interviews with parents....
New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Building on initial teacher education for professional learning
A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...
Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience
As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...
The free school meal voucher scheme & children’s access to food during the Covid-19 crisis
With schools closed in the UK in response to the Covid-19 crisis, children who would normally receive free school meals were at an elevated risk of food insecurity. However, the voucher scheme...
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The free school meal voucher scheme & children’s access to food during the Covid-19 crisis
With schools closed in the UK in response to the Covid-19 crisis, children who would normally receive free school meals were at an elevated risk of food insecurity. However, the voucher scheme...
Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience
As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...
New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Building on initial teacher education for professional learning
A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...
The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health & learning of young children
This report investigates the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and learning of young children through surveys and interviews with early years practitioners, and interviews with parents....
The impact of Covid-19 on early years settings & their staffing decisions
This report shares insights into how Covid-19 impacted upon on the early years workforce in England, Wales and Scotland during the first year of the pandemic, focusing on how pre-existing issues...
Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis
This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...
Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol
Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years
The experiences of autistic young people & their parents of lockdown & the reopening of schools
This report summarises findings of research into how families of autistic children and young people attending mainstream schools in England experienced and responded to home-schooling and...
Exclusion & the strategic leadership role of special educational needs co-ordinators in England
This report asks whether and how special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) participated in Covid-19-induced school planning for lockdown, provision for vulnerable pupils and full school...
Exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health & wellbeing of learners with autism
Documenting an explorative qualitative study involving 20 learners with autism aged 14–19 based in the West Midlands region of England, this report considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
How has Covid-19 affected how teacher educators engage their students in learning?
This report presents a mixed-methods investigation of how Covid-19 affected the ways in which teacher educators in Wales engaged their students with learning, and how the switch to online delivery...
Teaching English when schools are closed: Experiences & lessons learned
Following their closure to most students in March 2020, schools in England addressed the pedagogical challenge of remote learning using approaches that varied according not only to school culture...
What sources of data did teachers use to inform remote teaching under Covid-19?
Exploring how teachers collected and used data to make decisions about their practice while working in uncertain, rapidly changing conditions during lockdown and school closures, this report...
Adapting one-to-one reading support for children during Covid-19 school closures
Innovations and challenges among reading recovery teachers in Bristol
