This SIG is a supportive and collaborative community of practitioner researchers working in a diverse range of contexts. It brings together those with a special interest in all those (closely related) methodologies in which research is an integral part of practice and plays a significant role in promoting the publication and dissemination of practitioner research studies as well as studies which focus on the methodological approaches to practitioner research.

Research interests

• Methodological approaches to practitioner research
• The relationship between ethics and practitioner research
• Practice development
• Evidence-based practice

SIG aims

• To develop and foster a close, collaborative and diverse community of practitioner researchers.
• To contribute to the generation of theory, knowledge and expertise about practitioner research.
• To provide ‘critical friendship’ to BERA members and others engaged in practitioner research with the intention of establishing broadly agreed ‘fitness for purpose’ quality criteria for such research.
• To promote the principle of a spectrum of educational research that will enable stronger links to be established and sustained between small-scale practitioner research, larger-scale academic research and local and national decision-making.
• To establish links with regional, national and international bodies that have a leadership role in practitioner research, for example, The Chartered College of Teaching. 
• To give prominence to practitioner research within BERA’s activities, for example through contributing articles to Research Intelligence and BERJ and through organising accessible events which appeal to our membership and help to meet the overall aims of the SIG.