BERJ Early Career Reviewer Scheme: Call for mentors
The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is pleased to launch its Early Career Reviewer Scheme that aims to build early career researchers’ capacities in academic peer reviewing. This...
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Queer-in(g) Education: mis/uses and matterings
Calling all educators, researchers, and advocates interested in critically exploring how queer theory has come to matter in the field of gender and sexuality education. Join us for an online...
BERA Educational Research Book of the Year
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)
The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...
Recruiting female engineering undergraduates who plan to choose a career outside engineering for academic interviews
Women’s underrepresentation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is a global issue. Among STEM disciplines, engineering can be the one with the largest gender gap but be...
Continue reading blog postThe BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice
Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice
Speaking the unspoken: Teaching and learning about transgender identities
In 2020, guidance published by the Department for Education stated that relationships and sex education (RSE) in England should discuss ‘LGBT content at a timely point’ (DfE, 2019, p. 15)....
Continue reading blog postThe ECR journey: From inspiration to impact
The first ever BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference in May 2023, The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact, celebrated the journey of ‘becoming’ an educational researcher. It was an...
Hate males: Boys as the victims of patriarchy in contemporary education
In her seminal work on the relationship between men and patriarchy, bell hooks famously noted: ‘The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence towards women....
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Celebrating new positive formations of masculinity in two schools
Questions about boys and their constructions of masculinity continue to stimulate interest, debate and controversy in academic circles, the media and society. Although figures like Andrew Tate...
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Are LGBT+ people underrepresented in academia?
Higher education institutions (HEIs) rightly seek to be diverse and inclusive. Many initiatives focus on LGBT+ people as a group which is presumed to be underrepresented. Now, for the first time,...
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Parent engagement in school curriculum: Whose voices get heard?
Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...
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