Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will:

• make important contributions to the discipline by contributing to and leading current debates
• develop research capacity by involving postgraduate students and early career researchers
• receive applications from and involving practitioners and policymakers as well as academic researchers.

The value of each individual award is up to £5000.

This year the theme for proposals was “Education in a digital age: perspectives from policy and practice”

The 2023 funding was designed to allow awardees to explore different aspects of the way in which digital technology and practices are changing education with a particular emphasis on how this impacts on practitioners and policy-makers.

We are delighted to announce the winners of this funding are:

• Achala Gupta, University of Southampton, “When AI (Artificial Intelligence) Meets AI (Academic Integrity): Educational Opportunities and Challenges in a Digital Age”
• Carina Girvan, Trinity College Dublin, “An existential threat to education? A foundational study into educational stakeholder perspectives on generative AI in education”
• Lulu Shi, University of Oxford, “The political and economic agenda behind the push for digitalisation of education –perspectives from policy and EdTech actors”
• Michael Jopling, University of Brighton, “The (post) digital school: What is and what might be”

Congratulations to the funding recipients and thank you to all who applied.