The 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...
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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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Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)
The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...
Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160
Education and democracy
British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)
This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...
Editorial: Researching gender and sexuality
Gender and sexualities research carries unique sensitivities and challenges that can create a range of barriers for postgraduate and early career educational researchers. Our event ‘Researching...
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Researching gender and sexuality
Gender and sexualities research carries unique sensitivities and challenges that can create a range of barriers for postgraduate and early career educational researchers. The event Researching...
Questioning my use of creative methods: The dominance of the interview in a multiple case study project focusing on the lived experiences of four gender-diverse teachers in UK schools
The BERA Researching Gender & Sexuality in Educational Settings event for early career researchers provided an important opportunity to take a few reflective steps back and think about an aspect...
Continue reading blog postTop tips for facilitating creative research spaces with arts-based methods
The appeal of creative methods in research has been well noted across literature, including their potential for enhancing participant-led forms of expression (see Ascroft, 2021; Kara, 2020; Vaart...
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