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Framing research: Participatory research approaches in early years education

On 14 February 2020, at the BERA ECR Network Symposium, my presentation focussed on participatory research in early childhood education. Having worked for a number of years in an early childhood...

Storying identities, experiences and agency of graduate teaching assistants

‘Have you thought about including recordings of these stories as part of your thesis? It’s just that reading them out loud was really powerful for those of us listening.’ I stopped. To be...

BERA ECR Network symposium: A personal reflection on constructive feedback

In October 2019 I travelled to the US to explore the benefits of oracy-centred teaching strategies and expeditionary learning for the development of the speaking, listening, reading and writing...

Rebekah Ackroyd

Rebekah Ackroyd is the Early Career Researcher Network Regional Rep for the North of England. Rebekah is a lecturer in education at the University of Cumbria working on postgraduate provision. Her...

Brittany Wright

Brittany Wright is the Early Career Researcher Network Regional Rep for the Midlands. Brittany Wright is an ESRC-funded doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham....

Sin-Wang Chong

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Language Education

Sin-Wang (Ph.D., SFHEA, FRSA) is Director of Research and Director of Impact and Innovation at the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute, University of St Andrews. Concurrently,...

Renegotiating teacher identities: Reflections on student wellbeing and online learning during Covid-19

In response to the current Covid-19 outbreak, universities across Australia quickly moved to restructure the delivery of their courses that customarily took place on campus. We are both first year...

The coronavirus crisis: What support for early career researchers?

From issue 143 of Research Intelligence, BERA's members' magazine.

Exploring the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital(s) in survey research: Student participation in further education in England

Following engagement with Savage et al’s (2013) Great British Class Survey (GBCS), and subsequent criticisms of it – for instance, the selectivity of indicators of each capital (Bradley, 2014)...

Teacher identity in a performative age: Coming to research through autoethnography

What is it to be a teacher? In 2014, five years into my career as a primary school teacher, I would have answered that question with a story of early promise as a trainee and professional success...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research – Birmingham

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research: Theories, Concepts and Reflexivity in Educational Research

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. The theme for 2020 is ‘Framing Research: Theories, Concepts and...

Creative and Innovative Methodologies in Education Research

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. This two-day symposium – jointly organised by the BERA ECR Network and...