BERA Annual Conference 2024 – SIG Best Presentation Award
The SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentations. The ‘BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded. You can view the...
College of Reviewers
Alice Bradbury, Professor
Professor of Sociology of Education, Co-Director Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 Years) at University College London
Alice Bradbury is Professor of Sociology of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and Co-Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0 to 11 Years) at UCL. Her research explores educational inequalities and education policy in primary and early years education. She is the author of Understanding Early Years Inequality (Routledge, 2013), The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education (Routledge, with Guy Roberts-Holmes, 2017) and Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools (Policy Press, 2021). Her forthcoming book is titled Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis (Policy Press, 2025).
Prof Bradbury’s work explores the impact of policy in primary and early years education with a focus on issues of social justice. Her work focuses on accountability policy particularly, including Ofsted and assessment systems, and how this relates to datafication and concepts of 'ability'. She was Co-Chair of the Independent Commission on Assessment in Primary Education (ICAPE) in 2022 and in 2023 was part of the Beyond Ofsted Inquiry.
Alice Bradbury's contributions
BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award
The BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award recognises and celebrates the impact of research and practice in the education community and how both have demonstrably engaged the public.
Food banks in schools
Exploring the impact on children’s learning
Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...
The politics of ‘scientifically-based’ teaching: Phonics for reading and grammar for writing
The teaching of reading and writing understandably attracts attention from researchers, teachers and policymakers because of the importance of literacy for children’s educational development....
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‘Learning for All’
BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
BERA Appoints Members to the College of Reviewers
As an organisation we are committed to principles of openness, integrity and transparency and seek to uphold ethical values in all our activities and processes. The newly established BERA College...
