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Ken Kahn

Ken Kahn first became interested in AI programming by children in the 1970s. He published the paper ‘Three Interactions between AI and Education’ (Kahn, 1977) while he was a graduate student...

‘Why can’t I use this voucher?’ The impact of Covid-19 on access and (in)effective support of the school food voucher scheme

The Food Foundation (2020) has found since lockdown started that 5 million people in the UK living in households with children under 18 have experienced food insecurity. A minority (1.8 million)...

Global Perspectives: Educational Leadership

The University of Worcester, in association with the Education Futures Collaboration and British Educational Research Association (BERA), invite you to participate in our 5th international...

Identity building as a pathway to children and young people’s wellbeing in schools

For decades now, there has been a looming child and youth mental health crisis in many developed nations globally (WHO, 2020). Nations have varied in policy responses to the issue, but what many...

Language Trends 2021 Research

This is a series of three podcasts about the 2021 Language Trends Research. One podcast will feature research in Northern Ireland, the second one will feature research in England and the third...

BERA Literacy and Language SIG: Language Trends Northern Ireland 2021 Research

In this podcast Dr Barbara Skinner interviews Dr. Ian Collen (Director, Northern Ireland Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (NICILT) & lead researcher) Caroline...

The corridors of silence

Our vernacular is somewhat noisy with idioms of silence: deafening silences; as silent as the grave; a wall of silence; suffering in silence. Other idioms offer implicit references to silence,...

Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...

Marnee Shay

Dr Marnee Shay is an Aboriginal educator and researcher and senior research fellow in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Marnee’s research spans the field of Indigenous...

Ceri Brown

Dr Ceri Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her research focuses on the impacts of education policy on children’s schooling experiences,...

Environmental protest & education: ‘Something’s gone wrong somewhere’

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the combustion of fossil fuels is the main contributor to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Young people in England...

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Why support BERA? The BERA conference is the largest conference in the UK to focus on educational research and one of the largest social sciences conferences of its kind. Supporting BERA means...