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Lesley Emerson

Lesley Emerson is a Lecturer in Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research is focused currently on two themes: the role of...

Warwick Mansell

Journalist

Warwick Mansell is a freelance education journalist. Having begun his career in local journalism at the Cambridge Evening News in 1995, he then spent nine years at the Times Educational...

Poonam Batra

Poonam Batra is Professor of Education at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India. Recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for research in teacher education...

Peter Mortimore

Education researcher and writer. Author ‘Education under siege’. London teacher in 1960s/70s; ILEA Director of Research and Statistics; professor at universities of Lancaster, London and...

Pamela Munn

Emeritus Professor of Education

After teaching history in comprehensive schools in London, Pamela joined the University of Stirling as a research fellow in 1979. She was appointed as lecturer in Applied Research at the...

What can experiment tell us in educational research?

In education, we’ve put a straitjacket around our notion of experiment. We adhere steadfastly to what Parlett and Hamilton (1972) famously called the ‘agricultural-botany paradigm’. But the...

Dame Alison Peacock

Dame Alison Peacock is Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, a charitable Professional Body that seeks to empower a knowledgeable and respected teaching profession through...

Gemma Moss

Gemma Moss is Professor of Literacy at UCL Institute of Education. She is Director of the ESRC Education Research Programme (2021–26). The programme is exploring new ways of working in...

Paul Connolly

Paul is Professor of Education and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University. He is internationally known for his research on early childhood,...

Cynthia Coburn

Cynthia E. Coburn is professor at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Chicago. She specializes in policy implementation, the relationship between research and...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email conference@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_knowledge Knowledge - its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in...

Pasi Sahlberg

Pasi Sahlberg is Finnish educator and scholar. He worked as a schoolteacher, teacher educator and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world. His...