Katy Vigurs – BERA Conference 2021 Keynote Lecture
Achieving a research career is often imagined or constructed as a smooth, linear trajectory that individuals expect and are expected to follow once they have completed their doctoral studies. The...
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BERA Conference 2021 – Keynotes now Available
For our first venture into a fully online annual conference, we were delighted to have secured four outstanding keynote speakers to present alongside the full range of symposia, workshops and individual papers submitted through the normal routes.
- Becky Francis, now the CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation and previously the Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) will join us to talk about her own research as well as the EEF’s current projects.
- Iram Siraj is Professor of Child Development and Education at University of Oxford and brings an international reputation for longitudinal research and policy expertise, focussed on the early years.
- Katy Vigurs (Birmingham City University) will bring a perspective on higher education, with a particular focus on the stratification of HE and its relationship to university access, student experience and graduate outcomes.
- Our fourth keynote is Vanita Sundaram (University of York) whose research focusses on gender and education, focusing more specifically on gender-based violence and teenagers; tackling everyday sexism, harassment and abuse in education across the lifecourse; and sexual violence in higher education.
The recordings of the keynotes can now be viewed on the BERA Website. Please click on the links below.
Vanita Sundaram – BERA Conference 2021 Keynote
In this paper, I will draw on research from schools and university settings to explore the idea that formal sites of education can be considered conducive contexts for sexism, sexual harassment...
Iram Siraj – BERA Conference 2021 Keynote
Abstract Data for this presentation was derived from the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE) project, a large scale, a longitudinal, mixed-methods research study that...
Becky Francis – BERA Conference 2021 Keynote Lecture
Educational inequality remains a challenge to social justice in the UK and across the world, and education research has an important role to play in addressing this. In order to do so effectively,...
Keynote Speakers
Katy Vigurs, Dr
Reader at Birmingham City University
Katy is a Critical Higher Education (HE) researcher with a particular interest in the stratification of HE and its relationship to university access, student experience and graduate outcomes. She is also passionate about the experiences and...
Vanita Sundaram, Dr
Senior Lecturer in Education at University of York
Vanita Sundaram is Professor of Education at the University of York. Her research broadly covers gender and education, focusing more specifically on gender-based violence and teenagers; tackling everyday sexism, harassment and abuse in education...
Iram Siraj, Professor
Professor at University of Oxford & University of Maynooth
Iram has an international reputation for longitudinal research and policy expertise, she has co-directed a number of influential studies, including the Effective Provision of Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE, DfE, 1997-2015)...
Becky Francis, Professor
Chief Executive Officer at Education Endowment Foundation
Professor Becky Francis is Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation. She was previously Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), and prior roles include Professor of Education and Social Justice at King’s College...