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Supporting doctoral students and early career researchers in journal peer review in educational research: Issues and suggestions (Part 1)

Journal peer review is a familiar topic for doctoral students and early career researchers in educational research. With the prevalence of the ‘publish-or-perish’ culture in academia,...

Evidence-based practice in schools: What’s really going on?

Improving educational outcomes through high-quality provision is one of the main aims of education systems across the world. Over recent decades there has been a concerted move by policymakers in...

Food banks in schools and the ‘cost of living’ crisis

In the UK, over 2.6 million children experience food insecurity, which is defined as those who have limited or unreliable access to food due to a lack of financial resources (Power et al., 2020;...

Where’s the geography? The importance of geography to disciplinary debates about, and teaching in, education

Initial Teacher Education offers fascinating, complex and vital opportunities to think across academic disciplines, school subjects and pedagogy. Over a decade ago, reflecting on her experiences...

Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making SIG Convenor Vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Aims and objectives of the group  To identify and enhance the various ways in which, and the supporting conditions under which, scholarly research efforts in education can...

Ethnicity & the early years workforce: A census of staff in maintained nursery schools in England

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This study, supported by BERA's Small Grants Fund (SGF), surveyed ethnicity across staff working in maintained nursery schools (MNSs) in England.  The project aimed to gather a robust...

Post-truth teachers

Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...

Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education

In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...

The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy

Recent research on climate change education in England indicates an absence of policy and pro-environmental ambition, and obstruction in relation to both environmental sustainability in general,...

School self-evaluation for school improvement: Principles of effective practice

In developing the National Strategy of Educational Research and Enquiry (NSERE), the Welsh Government conducted several evidence reviews to understand how to foster educational research capacity...

What is the purpose of school and who should control it?

We all learned at school Churchill’s comment that ‘democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time’ (quoted in Langworth,...

Why Wales has a head start in the future of post-16 education in the UK and internationally

Wales is currently in the middle of a curriculum and qualifications reform. Since 2015, ‘pioneer’ schools across the principality have been contributing to the development of a new national...