ECR Coffee Hour – Spring
This BERA ECR Network’s coffee hour will give you the opportunity to find out more about the ECR Network and its activities as well as get to know a little more about the team behind it. There...
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Rhianna Murphy, Miss
PhD Student at Cardiff University
Rhianna Murphy is a PhD student at Cardiff University and a visiting lecturer in education at the University of Chester. She is also former primary school teacher, with experience teaching in Spain and England. Her research interests focus on curriculum development and teacher agency. During her master’s degree, she started to explore teacher agency andhas since continued this line of enquiry in her PhD. Her PhD research explores teachers’ experiences of the Curriculum for Wales, focusing on how socio-economic contexts can impact, shape and influence teachers’ curriculum decisions.
Rhianna Murphy's contributions
The ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming
On this 2nd ECR Annual Conference we continued to celebrate the ECR journeys and welcomed educational researchers and practitioners to join us in Leeds. This year’s conference was anchored on...
Curriculum for Wales: Are linear curriculum development models helpful?
Wales is in a time of unprecedented curriculum reform. In September 2022 Wales started the roll-out of their reformed Curriculum for Wales (CfW). This purpose-led curriculum is designed to be...
Continue reading blog postTeacher agency: The missing data
There is a growing body of literature that reconceptualises teacher agency through an ecological lens, encapsulating the temporal, contextual and relational dimensions of agency (see for example...
Continue reading blog postEarly Career Researcher Network
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those who are in the process of completing their masters or doctorate in education, as well as those who have completed...