BERA aims to celebrate and promote the work of our Early Career Researcher Network. We presented a prize to the best Early Career researcher presentation at the conference.
The top scoring ECR abstracts were automatically shortlisted for the BERA ECR Presentation Award.
You can view the full abstracts on the programme here.
Victoria Pendry – Developing a common language to describe the challenges of teacher education in South Sudan: a co-constructivist approach to problem solving
Claudia Blandon – Voices from the ground: Exploring the impact of Human Rights Education on notions of empowerment among displaced women in Colombia
Catherine Jones – How do we prepare teachers to facilitate effective parental engagement? A systematic review
CEO The Curriculum Foundation at Institute of Education
Victoria has a background in Primary Education in the UK, specialising in Education for Sustainable Development. Now a freelance consultant, Victoria works with schools, NGOs and Ministries of Education worldwide to review and redesign curriculum...
Associate Lecturer at University of Plymouth
Claudia Blandon has a background in Anthropology, Sociology, International Human Rights Law and Forced Migration Studies. Her doctoral work is a multidisciplinary study between education and forced migration studies that explores the role Human...
PhD student at University of Warwick
Cat Jones is a final-year ESRC-funded PhD student at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on parental engagement with learning. Other research interests include policy, SEND and social justice. Cat is an experienced primary school...
Sarah O’Neill – CLIL, Content and Learner Motivation: analysing the appetite for innovation in KS3 language learning
Jill Steel – Teacher-Researcher Collaboration in Animal-assisted Education: Co-designing a Reading to Dogs Intervention
PGR Research Student at Queen's University Belfast
Sarah O’Neill is a qualified languages teacher (CELTA, PGCE) and PhD research student in modern language education policy at Queen’s University Belfast. Her PhD is entitled: ‘Developing CLIL-informed Policy and Practice in Language...
Early Career Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Jill Steel is a former primary school teacher and lecturer in childhood practice, and is currently an early career researcher (ECR) at the University of Edinburgh’s Moray House School of Education and Sport. Jill’s interest in Reading to Dogs...
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Little learners, growing in the outdoors: identifying ways to effectively support children to develop scientific questioning in primary science.
Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University
Alison Murphy is a senior lecturer in Primary Education within the Nottingham Institute of Education at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include: science education, outdoor learning and inclusive practice. Prior to working in...