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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...

2019 BERA Masters and Doctoral Awards Now Open

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...

From here to home: A small note on PhDscapes

In 2014, when I started my PhD at the University of Huddersfield about globalisation and higher education in Vietnam, I found myself thinking, ‘Why do I need to go halfway around the world to do...

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

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational 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.   Discussants: Dr. Dalene Swanson, Dr....