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Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education – Call for SIG Convenor 2025-2028

Closes 10 Jan 2025

The Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education SIG (launched in 2018) provides a dynamic and inclusive forum for academics, practitioners, researchers, students, and others passionate about education....

From hospital halls to school walls: Raising awareness about the impact of a cancer diagnosis on a child’s educational journey

A national average of 1,645 cancer cases among 0-to-14-year-old children and 2,110 cases among 15-to-24-year-old teenagers and young adults are reported annually in the United Kingdom, with a...

World Mental Health Day 2024

Thursday, 10th October is World Mental Health Day. Mental illness affects an estimated 950 million people worldwide, and is the leading cause of disability across all age groups.  BERA...

BERA and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme

BERA is partnering with the Kusuma Trust to deliver several research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent. The...

Branching Out: Mobilising community assets to support the mental health and wellbeing of children in primary schools

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Children's mental health is a pressing concern, with recent data suggesting 18 per cent of children aged 7–16 years in England have been diagnosed as having a probable mental health disorder...

What makes school a good place for LGBTQ+ young people?

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The first phase of my PhD focused on what LGBTQ+ young people in the UK thought schools could do to make it a good place for LGBTQ+ students. I also sought the perspectives of secondary school...

Exploring burnout among Latin American teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives, but few have felt its impact as acutely as educators. Overnight, teachers across Latin America were thrust into a new reality,...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

The BERA Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Exploring Frontline Support in Educational Research and Practice

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

Beyond vocabulary and grammar: Importance of considering ‘affective factors’ in teaching Arabic speaking skills

This blog post provides a summary of a study that explored several ‘affective factors’ that influence students’ acquisition of Arabic speaking skills (Bohra, 2020). Drawing upon Krashen’s...

Thriving in academia: Experiences of an international early career researcher

As an international PhD student and now an early-career researcher in education in the UK, I have experienced a range of emotional states that can be compared to a rollercoaster ride. For...