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Early Career Researcher Network Event Funding Scheme

The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network seeks to provide financial support to its members with one such offer being the ‘Event Funding Scheme’. The ‘Event Funding Scheme’ provides...

Walking and talking as and for methodological development

This collaborative blog was produced from discussions by attendees of the BERA Walk and Talk event held on 18 October 2019 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. The event’s aim was to...

Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2020: Framing Research – Aberystwyth

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

The theme for 2020 is ‘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,...

Editorial: The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent

BERA members, through informal conversation, recognised that there was a danger that qualitative studies may become under threat from not being approved by ethical committees in an increasingly...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Strathclyde)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Discussants: Professor Kate Wall, Dr Alan Huang and Dr...

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

Every year the ECR Network runs a number of events every year, including an annual symposia series across the four nations focusing on a theme.   The theme for 2020 is ‘Framing Research:...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Edge Hill)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.  Discussants: Professor Amanda Fulford and Dr Mike...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...

Academic or practitioner? Border-crossings and close-to-practice research

My professional career started in the mid-1980s. It has involved a journey from school teaching into higher education: I have worked as a research fellow, lecturer, professor and university senior...

Nomadic enquiry: Reimagining research ethics for ‘posthuman’ times

Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...