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School-based early years provision: We need to know more about how to support effective leadership

Incoming policy In response to growing pressure on the early education and care system, the new Labour government is forging ahead with plans to create thousands of nursery places inside existing...

Editorial: Revisiting the Children’s Plan: Towards a new manifesto for tackling early years inequality

The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007...

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...

Winter 2024/25

Research Intelligence issue 161: Reclaiming teacher education: Opportunities for a research informed & politically engaged profession

Getting to children’s eye level: Learning to be a teachable researcher

Research on children’s videogame play has shifted focus to examine digital play experiences in a broader, postdigital context (see for example Marsh, 2019). Methodologically, much of this...

Unpacking the complexities and challenges of education in Northern Ireland

Stimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project

Transforming education in Northern Ireland: foregrounding the best interests of the child

This blog post is a little different. Using my background as an advocate for children, I reflect on what they require from an education system that is so often not designed to serve their needs....

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...

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...

Harnessing the power of poetry in academic research – the author’s use of poetry as a tool for analysis

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

This blog post focuses on my approach to using poetry as an analytical tool in a recent empirical study. There is an exciting body of research highlighting the potential for incorporating poetry...

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Negotiating power, participation and dissent with young-researchers in community dissemination

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study considers the ethical issues that can arise when conducting participatory research with young people. It highlights the nuanced nature of participation preferences and the ethical...