Winter 2024
Reclaiming teacher education: Opportunities for a research informed & politically engaged profession
BERA Council
Barbara Skinner, Professor
Professor in TESOL and Education at Ulster University
Barbara Skinner is a Professor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)and Education in the School of Education at Ulster University. Barbara lectures on a range of teacher education courses. She is involved with doctoral supervision and examination. In addition to her role as a researcher and teacher educator, she is a council member of BERA; a member of the editorial board of the BERA Blog; co-convenor of BERA’s Language and Literacy special interest group; and a member of BERA’s Publications Committee.
Barbara Skinner's contributions
Editorial – Unpacking the complexities and challenges of education in Northern Ireland: stimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project
The rationale for how education operates is often contentious. There are varying views about academic selection, politicians disparage some degrees while lauding others, private schools’...
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Unpacking the complexities and challenges of education in Northern Ireland
Stimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project
Four Nations Representatives
The role of the four nations representatives is to build and sustain relationships between BERA and education researchers and research users at jurisdictional level. They will ensure the BERA...
Publications Committee
The role of Publications Committee is to: Ensure that BERA’s publications portfolio is well managed and upholds the highest academic standards Ensure the strategic direction of the BERA...
International Women’s Day 2024
On #InternationalWomensDay, BERA is celebrating the incredible achievements and contributions of women in educational research. Read below for a selection of exciting BERA events, blogs and...
How to develop more reach for your research
This BERA ECR conference offered a range of strategies to ensure your research has ‘reach’, that is, impact from the word go! The two keynote sessions explored how researchers can plan for...
Voices of the unheard: diversifying approaches to capturing, understanding and positioning the voices of participants in language and literacy research
The aim of this event was to expand our understanding of how to capture and authentically represent the voices of participants in language and literacy research. Through this symposium we hoped to...
