Ongoing project
BERA’s 50th Anniversary
2024 holds many exciting developments as we celebrate our 50th anniversary year.
This year we will:
- Launch more awards and funding opportunities – please keep a eye on our awards page for more information
- Publish the outcomes of various projects including our Small Grants fund and Brian Simon fund
- Partner with Emerald Publishing to launch a new series of books, titled The BERA Guides: Critical insights into educational research & practice
- Launch our own book Curriculum in a Changing World: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation & inclusion
- Continue our ambitious events programme online and in person
- Celebrate Early Career Researchers at the 2nd Annual ECR Conference
- Launch the BERA Teacher Network
- Launch the BERA Neurodivergent Researchers Network
- Publish the updated fifth edition of the BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research
- Collaborate with WERA to host our longest and largest ever annual BERA Conference 2024 in Manchester
- Welcome our Vice-President Marlon Moncrieffe as he assumes his Presidency in September
- Launch an expert panel, the broad remit of which will be to investigate the situation regarding funding for educational research. This is a continuation of the BERA State of the Discipline initiative where the funding for educational research was identified as a priority area for BERA to develop work in.
BERA’s History
Founded in 1974, BERA has spent the past 50 years advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement.
Curriculum in a Changing World
50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion
BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting
The BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting was held at the University of Manchester, 8-12 September 2024. Attended by almost 2,000 delegates, this was our largest BERA Conference.
The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice
Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice
Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)
The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...
Neurodivergent Researchers Network
The BERA Neurodivergent Researchers Network is a new initiative launched by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). The network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent...
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...
