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Young people’s mental health and wellbeing in the age of austerity and Covid-19: Are we all in this together?

Mental health difficulties in young people have been on the rise for over a decade now. In the past three years, the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare in England has...

Audio feedback as a form of emotional labour: Reflections from a university lecturer

In this blog post, I reflect on my experiences of providing audio summative feedback to university students at Manchester Metropolitan University, arguing that audio feedback is a form of...

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice

Visual reflective journaling: A tool for promoting self-care and ethical research practices for teacher-researchers

Researchers not only need but also deserve to care for their body-selves (Ellingson, 2017), particularly given the inherent challenges and stressors that come with engaging in research and...

What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?

Indigenous students around the world experience poorer educational outcomes compared to their non-Indigenous peers. In Australia, this trend is particularly prevalent in remote areas (Guenther et...

Understanding and improving the wellbeing of postgraduate taught students: A longitudinal study

Research from around the globe has highlighted that university student wellbeing is lower than that of the general adult population (see for example Adlaf et al., 2001; Larcombe et al., 2014), and...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

BERA Conference 2023

In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Wellbeing through the expressive arts: Supporting both student teachers and pupils in the classroom

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

During the Covid-19 pandemic emerging evidence showed the toll that the pandemic was having on the mental health of children (Anna Freud, 2020). We developed a module for our primary student...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Support for newly qualified professionals: It takes a village

In the UK context, as per worldwide, we need teachers and doctors more than ever. We face the challenge of attracting the right candidates, ensuring they complete training programmes, and enter...