BERA is delighted to announce that, following a competitive recruitment process, the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) has appointed new members to the editorial team: Dr. Laura Outhwaite, Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), University College London, and Dr. Elisa Rubegni, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.

Additionally, four new Arbitration and Triage Editors have joined the team: Prof. Feng-Kuang Chiang (Shanghai Normal University, China), Dr. Dennis Foung (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Assoc. Prof. Na Li (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China), and Dr. Weipeng Yang (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR).

BJET provides readers with the widest possible coverage of developments in educational technology world-wide and is the primary source for academics and professionals in the expanding fields of education, training and information technology. BJET gained a 2023 impact factor of 6.7, ranking it 6/756 in the Education and Educational Research category, placing it in the top quartile. The journal consistently ranks among the top three generic educational technology journals globally. BJET’s Journal Citation Indicator is 3.36 and its Citescore is 15.6.

BERA would like to extend its sincere gratitude to outgoing team members, editor Dr. Sara Hennessy (University of Cambridge) and triage editors Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) and Dr. Esteban Vázquez Cano (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain). We are indebted to Kaushal and Esteban for their invaluable contributions to BJET over several years. Sara made an exceptional contribution to BJET over the past eight years, and the journal has greatly benefited from her extensive knowledge, expertise, dedication and effort throughout her editorship. Under Sara’s leadership the journal has established a strong reputation among education scholars and professionals as a reliable source for high-quality research in educational technology. We wish all three of them the very best and look forward to future collaborations.

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The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) is a primary source for academics and professionals in the fields of digital educational and training technology throughout the world. It publishes theoretical perspectives, methodological developments, and high-quality empirical research demonstrating whether and how applications of instructional/educational technology systems, networks, tools and resources lead to improvements in formal and non-formal education at all levels. To find out more about BJET, please visit this link.

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