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Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Picture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...

Education: An academic discipline or a field?

What is the problem? Education research has periodically been sharply criticised for being weak in comparison with research from other disciplines. Some of this criticism has implied, or...

Joanna Merrett

EYPS Researcher

Joanna is a researcher for The Centre for Social Mobility at Exeter University. As well as being a Home Education Consultant and Early Years Teacher. Most recently conducting the biggest survey of...

Kylie Peppler

Kylie Peppler is an associate professor of informatics and education at the University of California, Irvine and director of the Creativity Labs. Her current scholarly interests include theorising...

How could coaching and mentoring be re-imagined by teacher educators to support Initial Teacher Trainees (ITTs) and Early Career Teachers (ECT) in the new normal returning to schools during Covid-19?

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #TeacherEd&Development Online event – pre-registration essential With Covid -19,  education...

Could Dido Harding move into education next?

Dido Harding was appointed as a Conservative peer (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) by then prime minister David Cameron in 2014. She is head of the NHS test and trace programme, and has been...

Can employers and schools harness employer engagement to improve diversity and inclusion?

The call for diversity and inclusion has intensified in light of recent events of police racism in the United States, the death of George Floyd being the catalyst. Beyond the rhetoric of Black...

Anti-racist mathematics teacher education

On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...

The uncomfortable and destabilising realities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students on an initial teacher education course

As a major provider of teacher education in the north west of England, we want to develop inclusive and anti-racist practices that will allow us to provide the best possible quality of experience...

#BlackLivesMatter in education: How can a hashtag help us understand exclusion inequalities in English schools?

The publicised deaths of Black people across the United States sparked a worldwide movement of protest against the historical inequalities and marginalisation experienced within the Black...

#BlackLivesMatter: Black female professionals’ experiences in the workplace

The devastating death of George Floyd, the Covid-19 pandemic, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #TheSchoolThatTriedToEndRacism have excavated and highlighted various inequalities within our...

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

This special series of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...