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.
Rachael Barrow – The Social Outcome of Employment: What are the Experiences of the Previously Home Educated?
Senior Teaching Associate at Lancaster University
Rachael Barrow is a senior teaching associate, researcher, and writer who has pursued an interest in alternative education and teaching, formally and informally, across childhood and higher educational contexts. Based at the University of...
Victoria Inyang-Talbot – Poetry as Method: Facilitating Teacher Critical Authenticity through Poetic Inquiry
Lecturer in Secondary English Education at N/A
Victoria I. Ekpo is a lecturer in Secondary English Education and a final-year PhD student at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. Her research centres around questions of authenticity – the self and their ontology – and ways in which poetry...
Susan Nichols – How Do You Connect?’ Investigating Children’s Digitally Mediated Interactions with Significant Others
Professor of Education at University of South Australia
Sue Nichols is a researcher, writer, and teacher educator who has pursued an interest in learning across multiple contexts, formal and informal, in and out of school, digital and material. Based in Australia, she has connections in many countries...
Catherine Hamilton – Assessing the effectiveness of using songs as a pedagogical tool with young foreign language learners in primary school contexts
University of Oxford
Catherine is a DPhil in Education candidate at the University of Oxford, and Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Her research investigates the effectiveness of using songs as pedagogical tools with...
Alison Murphy – 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...
David Lundie, Olafur Pall Jonsson & Clionagh Boyle – Values in Transition and Crisis: Civic, Religious, Character, Sustainability and Human Rights Education
Martine Jago – Experience, Exposure, Engagement: Holocaust Education in Post-Truth Societies
David Lundie is senior lecturer in the philosophy of education at Liverpool Hope University. He is the co-director of the Centre for Education and Policy Analysis, and associate editor of the British Journal of Religious Education. He is...
Professor at University of Iceland
Ólafur Páll Jónsson is a professor of philosophy at the School of Education, University of Iceland. He works on philosophy of education, mainly on theories of democracy and social justice, sustainability, philosophy of nature, and philosophy...
Associate Dean and Academic Lead at Liverpool Hope University
Clionagh is Associate Dean and Academic Lead for Early Childhood in the Faculty of Education and Social Science at Liverpool Hope University. Her interest is in the political dimension of Early Childhood particularly how research is translated in...
Professor at Pepperdine University
Martine Jago Ph.D. is a Professor of Education. Her foci are research methodology and Holocaust studies. She received scholarships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2016) and Yad Vashem in Israel (2022). Dr Jago earned her B.A....
Abigail Bowling – Carers First, Workers Second? Structure, Agency and Reflexivity in the Career Decisions of School Support Staff with Degrees
PhD Researcher at University of York
Abigail Bowling is a PhD student currently researching the career decision-making processes of early career teachers. Abigail is interested in debates surrounding structure, agency and reflexivity and how these can be applied to understand...
Martin Johnson – Teacher workload and wellbeing during the lockdown in England: insights from a teacher diary study
Senior Researcher at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Dr Martin Johnson is a senior researcher at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He has worked as a researcher in Cambridge since 2002, and prior to that he was a primary school teacher for 10 years. His research focuses on a diverse set of...
Richard Harris – Absence, distortion and disconnection: the challenge of history teaching, identity and ethnicity
Professor of Education at University of Reading
R Harris is a Professor of Education at the University of Reading’s Institute of Education. Their main area of teaching is in the field of history education and teacher education. In addition, they supervise MA students and EdD/PhD students,...
Matthew Woodford, Andrew Clapham & Natasha Serret – Pedagogic emancipation: dissonance in mathematics professional development and learning
Rachel Marks, Nancy Barclay & Alison Barnes – The prevalence and use of textbooks and curriculum resources in primary mathematics in England
Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University
Senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University leading the mathematics PGCE and our SCITT provision. Completing a PhD around professional development in mathematic education.
Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University
Andrew Clapham is an Associate Professor and Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research Methods. Andrew examines the sociology of education and focuses upon how education policy plays out in...
Associate Professor at U C L
Dr Rachel Marks is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her research interests are in primary mathematics education, equity and social justice, assessment and policy. She completed her doctorate examining ability grouping in...
Principal Lecturer in Mathematics Education at University of Brighton
Dr Nancy Barclay is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her research interests are in primary mathematics education, in particular mixed-attainment learning in primary schools and the nature of pupil dialogue in mathematics...
Principal Lecturer at University of Brighton
Dr Alison Barnes is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her research interests include, primary mathematics education and the role of affect in learning mathematics, and professional learning in education. She is currently working...
Balwant Kaur – Educational encounters, hybrid identities and spectral traces: collisions, contradictions and cultural hauntology
Assistant Professor for Race, Social Justice and Education at University of Birmingham
I am an Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice and Education at the University of Birmingham. My research interests include: exploring the experiences of women in diasporic communities; culture and migration through a hauntological and...