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Reading Rita and saving Arthur Seaton: Exploring mature students’ scholarly ‘becoming’ and the failures of working-class education

I was thrilled to present my research at the BERA ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming Conference at the University of Leeds in June 2024. This event gave me the opportunity to discuss the...

BERA announces 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Shortlist

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...

What is STEAM?

Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter

The perceptions and challenges of East Asian students in UK higher education

Over the past two decades, the total enrolments in UK higher education (HE) from China, Hong Kong, Japan and other East Asian countries have risen from fewer than 100,000 in 2002/03 to a record...

Jemima Davey

Jemima Davey is Subject Lead for Education Partnerships and a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, teaching across both undergraduate and postgraduate...

Jane Chambers

Jane Chambers is associate professor and the Head of the School of Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. She is responsible for initial teacher education, the school’s undergraduate...

Pete Bennett

Pete Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is co-author of After the Media: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century (2011) and The...

Rahmat Ryadhush Shalihin

Rahmat Ryadhush Shalihin is a PhD candidate at the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam, and a Research Fellow at the Department...

Garvin Payne

Garvin joined BERA in August 2024 as Events Coordinator. In this role, he is responsible for BERA's marketing and successful delivery of events for BERA throughout the year. Prior to his role at...

The role of ChatGPT Edu in higher education: Five key lessons for educators

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has generated significant discourse within the educational sector (Ng et al., 2024). Initially met with apprehension...

Branching Out: Mobilising community assets to support the mental health and wellbeing of children in primary schools

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Children's mental health is a pressing concern, with recent data suggesting 18 per cent of children aged 7–16 years in England have been diagnosed as having a probable mental health disorder...

Empowering nature and climate literacy: The role of educators in a changing world

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Nature and climate literacy In our rapidly changing world, education is essential for equipping the next generation to address critical issues like climate change and the nature crisis. Educators...