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Elizabeth Hoult

Dr Elizabeth Hoult is Professor of Education at Northumbria University. Here interests include resilience in education, adult and community education as ways of nurturing hopeful futures and the...

Matthew Martinez

Research Fellow

Matthew Martinez is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, where they are involved in a research project focussed on the current climate for teacher education within higher education and how...

Interview with BERA John Nisbet Fellowship 2021 Recipient Neil Mercer

In this weeks episode BERA President Dominic Wyse interviews the John Nisbet Fellowship recipient Neil Mercer. Neil is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, where he is...

New series of the BERA podcast

This autumn we have launched a new series of the BERA podcast. Over the next few weeks we will continue to feature emerging research which connects to policy and practice.  Already we have...

Learning to be alone: How positive solitude can benefit international students

International students experience loneliness regularly when living and studying abroad (Wawera & MacCamley, 2020), and the situation appears to have worsened during the pandemic. Since loneliness...

Covid-19 school closures, working from home and family challenges: A novel solution

Covid-19 presented a set of challenges for UK universities, and where ‘business as usual’ was expected, staff working practices intensified. The impact of this has not been equal, with the...

BJET Best EdTech Paper Award at the BERA Conference

The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) judges this biennial award for the best presentation on an educational-technology-related topic to be delivered during the BERA Conference....

Jodie Pinnell

Jodie Pinnell is a senior lecturer, undergraduate course leader and senior tutor in the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. Her professional background is in further...

Catherine Carroll-Meehan

Dr Catherine Carroll-Meehan is head of the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. She is a principal fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Catherine has worked in...

How can we teach for transformative disciplinary learning in history and social studies in a high autonomy curriculum?

New Zealand’s 2007 curriculum reform has received international attention for its high level of curricular autonomy, learner-centred ideologies and adoption of 21st-century skills, competencies...

Cross Community Education in Divided Societies – Joanne Hughes and Rebecca Loader

Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research – November

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research

The theme for 2021 is ‘Overcoming challenges in educational research’ Discussant: Professor Andrew Peterson, University of Birmingham Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is...