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Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)

BERA is looking for suggestions and nominations for members to become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. As an accredited learned society, we are entitled to make nominations that have the...

The Skills for Jobs white paper: A chance to provide ‘flexibility’

The UK government’s Skills for Jobs white paper is clearly an attempt to realign post-16 education around the needs of employers. It presents a challenge for higher education to develop an...

Brendan Coulson

Brendan Coulson is a principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and is currently a trustee for the Raleigh Learning Trust. Brendan has achieved a first-class computer science degree, PGCE,...

Sandra Mathers

Senior Researcher

Sandra is known nationally and internationally for policy-relevant research on early years education and care (ECEC), with a strong focus on educational inequality. Her experience includes...

Cassie Buchanan OBE

Executive Headteacher

Cassie Buchanan is the executive headteacher of Charles Dickens Primary School and Nursery based in Southwark, London and the CEO of The Charter Schools Educational Trust, a growing trust of...

Jean Gross CBE

Author and Independent Consultant

Jean Gross was formerly England’s Communication Champion for children and young people, responsible for promoting the importance of good language skills. She chaired the 2018 ‘Bercow: Ten...

Researching in Covid-era schools

Paul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...

Teacher micropopulism on social media

When you invest years in thinking about what populism is and how it manifests on social media, it is easy to forget that, for many, ‘populism’ is seen as a negative term, and that individuals...

Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   #toptipsandtriggers In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the...

Tackling widespread myths and misconceptions through transformatory teacher training and sustained support for schools: The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education

In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, Chief Executive of BERA speaks to Ruth-Anne Lenga and Alice Pettigrew of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.

Rebecca Grant

Rebecca Grant is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, investigating secondary schools’ responses to pupil disadvantage as part of an ESRC CASE studentship. She co-edits the...

Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools

In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the Practitioner Researchers SIG hosted the Principles into Practice event. An event was requested to find out how/why Head...