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BERA announces 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

After reviewing both books in the outstanding shortlist, the BERA judging panel has decided that the winner of the 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Award  is

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies
Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers
Routledge

The judges commented

This book is empirically rich, theoretically challenging,  and inspiring for current and future educational researchers.

Congratulations to the authors

Authors

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Kalwant Bhopal, Professor

Professor at University of Birmingham

Kalwant’s research focuses on exploring how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalisation operate in White educational spaces. Her research has specifically been used to inform the development of the Race Equality Charter. Her recent book,...

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Martin Myers

Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham

Martin Myers is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. He is a sociologist whose work explores the lives and identities of marginalised communities. His research has often focused on Gypsy families, in...