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Jessica Tawn

Jessica Tawn is a PhD research student in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. Her master’s dissertation explored compulsory school age reception admission for summer-born...

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Khadija Mohammed

Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Social Sciences

My own experiences as both a Teacher and Teacher Educator, working with young children in primary school, encourage me to consider ways to enthuse learners to participate as socially and morally...

Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education

On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

Dr Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. She is the author of Yes to...

Reimaging mentoring and coaching for teacher trainees and newly qualified teachers post-Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic affected the development of initial teacher trainees (ITT) and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in a variety of different ways. Teacher educators had to think of new ways to...

Joint Research Methodology in Education and Practitioner Research SIG newsletter

This joint newsletter is the result of a growing collaboration between our SIGs in the area of overlap between exploring and supporting research design and carrying out meaningful research in and...

The use of vlogs, blogs and podcasts in education research, teaching and professional development

The ubiquitous nature of the smart phone and the internet has meant that a new approach to seeking and managing information is emerging as part of our normal lives.  Vlogs, blogs and podcasts are...

Terry Hanley CPsychol, AFBPsS, PhD

Terry is a Reader in Counselling Psychology at the University of Manchester and an Associate Director of Research for the School of Environment, Education and Development. He is a registered...

Inclusive Relationships, Sex and Health Education in culturally and religiously diverse communities

This episode of the BERA podcast explores the challenges and opportunities of inclusive RSHE in culturally and religiously diverse communities.

Mikko A. Niemelä

Mikko A. Niemelä is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation. He...

Education other than school

The phenomenon of a global pandemic has locked down society, closed schools and placed the role of educator squarely into the hands of parents. Instead of home education being the realm of the...