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Early Career Researcher Network

The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those who are in the process of completing their masters or doctorate in education, as well as those who have completed...

The neglect of practice

Many BERA members will be very familiar with terms such as evidence-informed practice, evidence-based practice and research-engaged teaching. The recent BERA close-to-practice research project is...

Get out of your comfort zone with a different presentation style

Attending an international conference as an early career researcher (ECR) can be daunting. In September, 2018 I had the opportunity to attend, and present at, the European Conference on...

BERA Statement on Close-to-Practice Research

BERA offers this statement to serve as a shared reference-point for high quality research, conducted within diverse research traditions, that shares the central aim of making a contribution to...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Portsmouth)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.   Discussants: Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten and Dr...

Reflecting on the conference season: Where did your presentations end up as a result of social media dissemination?

As you reflect on the BERA Conference, have you thought about where images of and reflections about your presentations ended up as a result of social media dissemination? Who heard about them, who...

Performative education policy and the challenges for teachers with specific learning differences

Presently there are gaps in the body of research on teachers with specific learning differences (SpLDs). Where research on the matter does exist, it tends to focus on resilience strategies in...

Adopting a MasterChef approach to studies: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

In our previous blog (17 August 2018), Dave and I discussed the importance of having a ‘critical friend’ to accompany you on your doctoral journey. In this blog we will look at the second key...

To thrive, new teachers need environments of trust

Having just attended BERA’s Annual Conference at the University of Northumbria, I have been reflecting on the diverse range of talks I attended, and some of the key research messages that I...

BERA Bites: A resource for teachers, lecturers and students from the BERA Blog

The BERA Blog editors are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of publications: BERA Bites, edited collections of selected articles on key topics in education published on the BERA Blog....

Connecting the dots: painting, thesis and writing

I am a newly minted PhD from the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. Two months after graduation, I am still coming to terms with the ‘what...

Having a critical friend: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

Recently, we published our first BERA Blog about doctoral journeys and how low educational starting points don’t necessarily prohibit academic achievement. In that blog, we identified five key...