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BERA Annual Conference 2019 – SIG Best Presentation Award

The SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentation. The ‘BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded.

You can view the full abstracts on the programme here.

 

Alternative Education

Beth Christie; Callum McGregor; Mary Collacott – Climate Justice Education: Between Social Movement Learning and Schooling

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Beth Christie, Dr

Senior Lecturer / Programme Director: Learning for Sustainability Programme at The University of Edinburgh

Beth is Senior Lecturer in Outdoor Environmental Sustainability Education and Programme Director for the MSc Learning for Sustainability at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She is passionate about re-imagining and...

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Callum McGregor, Professor

Lecturer in Education/Programme Director Msc Social Justice and Community Action at University of Edinburgh

Callum is Lecturer in Education at the University of Edinburgh and Programme Director for the fully online MSc Social Justice and Community Action. His broad research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of education and social...

Arts Based Educational Research

Adam Hart; Alan Williams – Creative Communities: A Bridge between the Local School and the Symphony Orchestra

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Adam Hart, Dr

Lecturer in Music Technology at University of Salford

Dr Adam Hart is a lecturer in music technology at the University of Salford. He has a background in secondary education and audio programming, and his research interests involve creative advocacy through interactive technology. His PhD project...

Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

Emma BrowningBridging the Gap Between Past and Present: Narrative Nonfiction in the Primary History Classroom

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Emma Browning, Miss

Teacher at King's College London

I first became interested in the use of narrative as a learning tool during my undergraduate degree, studying English Language and Communication at King’s College London. I published my undergraduate dissertation, in which I explored the use of...

Educational Leadership

Sergio GaldamesThe Headteacher’s career through the eyes of time: The path of Boomers, GenXs and Millennials headteachers in Chile

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Sergio Galdames, Dr

PostDoc at Universidad de Chile

Sergio Galdames is a PhD candidate at the UCL Institute of Education. Sergio PhD focusses on the career of baby boomer, Gen Xer and millennial headteachers in Chile. Sergio has worked in professional development and research on school leaders, in...

History

Yasamin AlkhansaYou Don’t See Me, I Won’t See You! Teaching History in Iran under the Islamic Republic

Yinka OlusogaConstructing the Pauper Child in mid-19th Century Schooling: The Newcastle Commission and Discourses of Gender, Sexuality, Morality and Control

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Yasamin Alkhansa, Dr

Research Associate at University of Sussex

Yasamin Alkhansa completed her PhD at the Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex, in 2019. Her thesis, was an ethnography of official history as lived and enacted in schools in Iran which won BERA's Doctoral Thesis...

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Yinka Olusoga, Dr

Lecturer at University of Sheffield

Dr Yinka Olusoga is a lecturer in education and Course Director of the BA in Education, Culture and Childhood at the University of Sheffield. Her research and teaching focus on discourses and histories of childhood, play and education. She...

Inclusive Education

Kyriaki MessiouReaching out to all children through dialogues in schools

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Kyriaki Messiou, Professor

Professor in Education at University of Southampton

Kyriaki (Kiki) Messiou is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. Currently she is Director of Research/Deputy Head of Southampton Education School. Internationally known for her research in the field of inclusive...

Race, Ethnicity and Education

Richard Race; Carl Parsons; Karamat IqbalBritish Pakistani Boys, race and faith in education and social justice

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Richard Race, Dr

Senior Lecturer in Education at Teesside University

Dr. Richard Race is Visiting Professor in Education at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. The third edition of his monograph, Multiculturalism and Education will be published with the Open University Press in March 2024. Richard is also editor of...

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Carl Parsons, Professor

Emeritus Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University

Carl Parsons is a Visiting Professor of Social Inclusion Studies at the University of Greenwich. He was previously Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University until 2009, and retains an emeritus status there. His background is...

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Karamat Iqbal, Dr

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Dr Karamat Iqbal has worked in equalities and education for more than 40 years. This has included work as a local authority schools adviser and a consultant to various government departments, including the Department for Education. He has had a...

Research Methodology in Education

Warren SpeedLost in Translation: Considering practical approaches to ethical dilemmas in controversial research

Highly Commended:

Jo TrowsdaleDeveloping a new scale for confidence in creativity and learning 

Julia MorrisMultimodal arts-based research methods as knowledge translation: Enhancing the accessibility and impact of participant voice

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Warren Speed, Mr

PhD Researcher at University of Exeter

Warren is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The University of Exeter, his PhD focuses on how schools in England perceive and implement the ‘Fundamental British...

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Jo Trowsdale, Dr

Senior Lecturer at Newman University

Jo Trowsdale is a senior lecturer at Newman University Birmingham. She is a former teacher, teacher educator (primary and secondary) and director of a creative learning programme supporting more than 160 schools in addressing development issues...

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Julia Morris, Dr

Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts Education at Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley, WA, 6050

Dr Julia Morris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Course Coordinator for Visual Arts Education (Secondary) at Edith Cowan University, and an Honorary Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of...

Science Education

Su Lyn Corcoran; Cathy LewinSpace as a context for teaching: Engaging parents in learning

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Su Lyn Corcoran, Dr

Research associate at Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Su Lyn Corcoran is a Research Associate at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University and Programme Officer at the Enabling Education Network. Drawing on over a decade’s experience of teaching STEM...

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Cathy Lewin, Professor

Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University

Professor Cathy Lewin has over 20 years’ experience of mixed-method evaluations of school-based interventions. She has managed many large-scale evaluations that focus on whole school change and pedagogical initiatives such as technology...

Socio-Cultural and Cultural Historical Activity Theory

Jan Georgeson; Lucy Rodriguez Leon; Victoria BamseyPuzzling over materiality in Cultural Historical Activity Theory

Anna Strycharz-Banas; Carmen Dalli; Miriam MeyerhoffTrajectory of belonging: a case study of conflict, cooperation and everything in between

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Jan Georgeson, Dr

Associate Professor at Plymouth University

Dr Jan Georgeson is Associate Professor of Education at University of Plymouth with a professional background as teacher of young children with special educational needs. She has also worked and volunteered as a Portage worker supporting parents...

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Lucy Rodriguez-Leon, Dr

Lecturer in Education (Early Years) at The Open University

Lucy is a doctoral candidate at The Open University, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Her professional background is in early childhood practice, where she focused on promoting broad early literacy curricula that value and...

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Victoria Bamsey, Dr

Lecturer at University of Plymouth

As a lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education and Programme Lead for the National Award for SEN Coordination at the University of Plymouth I am interested in questioning education, what education means, what it looks like and where it...

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Anna Strycharz-Banaś, Dr

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington

Anna Strycharz-Banaś holds a PhD in sociolinguistics from the University of Edinburgh and is a postdoctoral fellow at Victoria University of Wellington Institute for Early Childhood Studies. Her research interests span communication across...

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Carmen Dalli, Professor

Professor, Early Childhood Education at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Carmen Dalli is professor of early childhood education at Victoria University of Wellington, Institute for Early Childhood Studies. She researches across the fields of early childhood (EC) policy, teacher professionalism, infants and toddlers in...

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Miriam Meyerhoff, Professor

Professor at Victoria University of Wellington

Miriam Meyerhoff is professor of sociolinguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Her research deals with language variation and change in its broadest perspective and she has a...

Youth Studies and Informal Education

Elizabeth Cookingham BaileySpace, Outreach and Informal Education – Continuities and changes in community-based work with
young people

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Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey, Dr

Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at University of York

My research focuses on the policy making process specifically the dynamics of the creation of policy and the role of external interests. I am also interested in how policy is implemented by a range of public service providers and issues relating...