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Netnography: exploring ‘innovative’ approaches to research

My PhD focusses on how online teacher-learning communities may support professional development, and as a relatively new researcher I was aware that, to address the subject, I needed to build my...

‘Evidence’ and the EEF toolkit: Reliable science or a blunt set of tools?

‘Evidence-based teaching’ is one of those feelgood phrases (think ‘school improvement’, ‘leadership’, ‘standards’) that it seems churlish to oppose. All the more important, then,...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition (2018)

This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the...

Challenging the evidence on the new baseline test in reception

In this blog, the authors of the BERA report A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England preview the findings of their research....

Child-friendly research in the early years

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How can the curriculum be...

The making of the RE-searchers approach: Close-to-practice theorisation and conceptualisation

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). This is the tale of two...

Reply to Danielle Pée’s BERA blog post, ‘The Power of Relationships’, as applied to research ethics

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Danielle Pée’s BERA blog...

Researching the curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, professionalism and innovation

Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog from the British Curriculum Forum On 24 February 2018 the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its third curriculum event for teachers, academics,...

The social categories of gender, race, dis-ability, intelligence, sexuality and class in relation to education

There have recently been calls to adopt approaches to the study of the social world that deny the need to address ontological and epistemological issues. Advocates for these approaches give the...

The ethics of educational leadership 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.   Researching educational leadership can raise...

BERA’s postgraduate symposium: A lifebelt in the methodological mire

As a doctoral student, BERA’s Postgraduate Forum symposium on research methodology seemed the perfect opportunity to present the methodological aspects of my research to a critical audience...

Research methods for educational leadership: a professional perspective

This blog coincides with a special issue of Management in Education about research methods for educational leadership. This brings together six papers, resulting from two seminars jointly held by...