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Summer 2020

Research Intelligence Issue 143 is on the theme of 'Widening participation in practice'.

Anna Robb

Anna Robb currently works at the University of Dundee in the School of Education and Social Work, on initial teacher, master’s and doctoral education programmes. Her research focusses on art...

Maxine Watkins

Maxine Watkins has a keen interest in the social psychology of education and teaching. Her PhD took a grounded theory approach to explore the dynamic nature of a teacher professional identity and...

New fund to support research on COVID-19 and education

As part of our response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, BERA is establishing a small grants fund for research into the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). This fund aims to support a...

Lessons for adapting home learning from parents with children with special educational needs

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Doing less, making learning fun and looking after everyone’s wellbeing’

The rise of the flexible and remote teacher: A primary school’s response to the Covid-19 context in London

Covid-19, education and educational research

On Friday 29 May 2020, ITV ran a story on the London regional news about a primary school whose pupils were reported to be ‘traveling the world’ through the adoption of video conferencing (VC)...

Warren Kidd

Senior Lecturer

Dr Warren Kidd is Director of Education and Experience at the University of East London, England, and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Patras, Greece. An experienced author,...

Hatice Yildirim

Hatice Yildirim taught as a teacher of the deaf/hard-of-hearing in educational settings in Turkey for six years. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, exploring the coping...

Anna Mountford-Zimdars

Anna Mountford-Zimdars is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter and a principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the founding and academic...

Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new...

Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton works in the Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research interests include educational transitions, curriculum studies and school...

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

This series of blogs summarises new research featured in a special issue of the Curriculum Journal  (published simultaneously in English and Welsh), which explores the many issues that arise...