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BERA announces winners of 2022 Undergraduate Award

The BERA Undergraduate award is for recent graduates who have completed their undergraduate degree in a field related to educational research. Judged by a panel of the Early Career Researcher...

‘Learning for All’

BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...

Alice Sleightholme

Alice is currently training to be a qualified primary teacher. Her professional development began with a bachelor’s degree in Education and Geography (combined hons.) at the University of...

Chang Liu

Chang Liu is a postgraduate student reading MPhil Research in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in sociolinguistics and ESL/EFL education with a special...

ECR Lecture: Making it count: Developing effective mentoring relationships as an early career researcher

Dr Yuwei Xu1, Dr Rachel Sandford2 1 University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. 2 Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network...

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022: Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research – March

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I am very grateful to Yan Zhu (BERA Early Career Researcher [ECR] Regional Rep for Wales) for inviting me to act as a discussant for the March event in the BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2022...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...

Framing research: Critical Discourse Studies and early childhood educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

During the process of undertaking doctoral research, it is important to acknowledge the research journey and emphasise your rationale for conducting that specific research project. This relates to...

How science capital helps to understand the urban–rural divide in Chinese students’ science aspirations

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Chinese students were reported to have relatively low science aspirations, which contrasts with their outstanding attainment in international student assessment (OECD, 2019). Meanwhile, a bigger...

Being a member of an academic community: A key factor in enhancing doctoral students’ academic writing

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

The challenges of writing a scientific article are widely discussed and acknowledged in research literature, including novice authors’ challenges (see for example Hyland, 2016; Lin & Morrison,...

Reflexivity in conducting qualitative educational research

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Introduction In this piece, two early career researchers (ECRs), Muna and Nour, reflect on their experience of conducting qualitative research. The blog post is a continuation of the vibrant...