Dr Diane Warner is a senior lecturer in teacher education at Manchester Metropolitan University. She started in education as a primary school teacher and moved into initial teacher education in 2004 working on campuses in the North and South of…

BERA is an important organisation nationally and globally because of the vision and values it upholds for research in education over a many different areas and topics.  I am particularly interested in research on race in education because it exposes and rightly challenges hidden, but pervasive racisms within schools, higher education and government policy. I value the work BERA has started on anti-racism initiatives and know the importance of its continuation.

I offer these areas as an indication of my commitment, research and work demonstrate my current skills and experiences to support the work of BERA.

BERA work
I am a current Co-convenor of the Race, Ethnicity and Education SIG and organise members’ meetings across each year, write the newsletters and facilitate the SIG X (Twitter) account. We support both established researchers and ECRs. This year, following a call-out to our members, I have prepared and submitted two symposia, one for established researchers and for our ECRs. I have been promoting the
50th anniversary conference in Manchester, with my work colleagues and encouraged them to submit abstracts.

Publications:
• BERA Journal https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3819
• BERA Curriculum Journal Decolonial praxis: Teacher educators’ perspectives on tensions, barriers, and possibilities of anti‐racist practice‐based Initial Teacher Education in England – Gabi – The Curriculum Journal – Wiley Online Library

BERA Blogs 2020-2022:
The uncomfortable and destabilising realities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students on an initial teacher education course

We need to call race by its name in teacher education

I am a mid-career researcher at my university and am a member of different research network groups with colleagues from Wales, Scotland, England, Norway and Australia.   I review for Cambridge Journal of Education and Globalisation Societies and Education.

Work with students is important:  I supervise PhD. Students and take part in integrating a race and diversity thread throughout the under and post-graduate teacher training courses.