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Making the Right Call Together: Effective Chairing – practical advice and support

5 Jun 2025 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

This session is for anyone who chairs sessions at BERA conference, anyone who would like to do this in the future, and for others who are interested in this vital aspect of conference organisation...

At the intersection of philosophy and poetic inquiry

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, that...

(M)othering and the PhD: Re-imagining researchers as entangled multiplicities

PhD mothers frequently find themselves under-represented, a reality reflected in social media posts, literature and academic discourse concerning their experiences. The prevalent narrative...

Crafting inclusive research approaches

BERA Conference 2023

Take three postgraduate researchers with a shared interest in developing inclusive approaches to disability and education, a carrier bag of magazines donated by the Women’s Institute, scissors...

Introducing the #baglady methodology

BERA Conference 2023

Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

How experiences as a research participant inspired an explicit commitment to parents taking part in a doctoral research inquiry

I cannot remember how many research studies I have been involved in over the past 17 years. This is not because I am an established researcher – on the contrary! Rather, it is because my...

BERA Doctoral Fellowship

In 2023 BERA invites applications for one doctoral fellowship for a student commencing their studies at a UK institution within the 2024/2025 academic year.  The Fellowship will be for up to 3...

The BERA ECR Network presents: Conversation as a form of inclusive research

This episode of the BERA Podcast is the fourth in a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. Sharon Smith engages with Dr Sin Wang Chong to discuss how...

Inaugural Doctoral fellowship winner announced

BERA is delighted to announce that Sharon Smith is the first recipient of our new doctoral fellowship. Sharon will undertake her PhD at the University of Birmingham and her proposal is titled...

Conference & Events Committee

The role of the Conference & Events Committee is to: Ensure that the Annual Conference and programme of in-year events operate to the highest academic standards Ensure that the Annual...