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Darcy Bornemann

Darcy Bornemann is Lecturer at Hartpury University, and a fellow of the Advance HE. In her role as HE Process Advisor she liaises between academic departments and professional services. She also...

Does environmental activism have a place within education?

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the pace and scale of current action to limit global warming is inadequate – but that urgent climate action can secure a liveable...

Elizabet Kaitell

Elizabet Kaitell is a Senior Lecturer in Learning & Teaching in Education at Kingston University. Her PhD explored the value of infographics for undergraduate students, grounded in complexity...

What makes students curious about science?

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‘It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry’, Einstein is reported to have said. Given...

Young professionals as development agents: Change makers in education (CMIE) programme for doing development differently

To realise the goals of achieving Sustainable Development Goal number four (that is, the importance of quality education for all) different participatory development approaches (Cornwall, 2011)...

Chris Reid

Chris Reid is a doctoral researcher in science education at King’s College London whose research looks at the role of curiosity in secondary science classrooms. Before beginning his PhD, he...

Smriti Safaya

Smriti Safaya is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of York, where she earned her PhD in Education. Her current research focuses on the impact of experiential environmental education on how...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Eesha Kapoor

Eesha Kapoor is a development practitioner with a master's in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She worked in a project managerial capacity with...

BERA is seeking two Book Feature Editors for Research Intelligence

This opportunity is now closed. BERA has an exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic academic editors who will manage a new book feature in Research Intelligence. The Book Feature Editors will...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 158

Unheard voices in education research

Contemplating the potential influence of typological relatedness on bilingual learners’ L2 preliteracy acquisition

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A survey of research on the acquisition of preliteracy skills in children’s first language (L1) has provided an important starting point from which the unique circumstances of bilingual children...