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

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

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Discussants: Dr Jane Rowley  and Sharon Inglis  BERA wants YOU if...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 1. Twitter, data collection & informed consent

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series begins by looking at the ethical issues that can arise when using social media as a means to recruit participants or gather data. To what extent are...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 2. Researcher wellbeing & international fieldwork

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s  Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the ethical issues that arise not only...

BERA Research Ethics Case Studies: 3. Anticipating the application & unintended consequences of practitioner research

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

This third entry in BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the unintended consequences of practitioner research – or, by extension, any research project that involves multiple...

You don’t understand us!

'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...

Is written informed consent always required for educational research?

While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.

Autumn 2019

New perspectives on international, intercultural and global education

Practical and useful research? First, sort out the theory

Researchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen holds a research fellowship in the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick, where she completed her PhD on the social justice implications of playful and...

Culturally appropriate pedagogy in comparative contexts

Culture varies across different contexts, and so does pedagogy. The nexus of culture and pedagogy was one of the themes extensively discussed at the recent Comparative and International Education...

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

The first BERA Research Commission was Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four jurisdictions, led by...

In pursuit of the elusive doctorate: Managing the last half-mile and getting home

Frustration and confusion can dominate the doctoral writing experience, and never more so than during the last half-mile.