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BERA Annual Conference 2022 – SIG Best Presentation Award

The SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentation. The ‘BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded. You can view the...

Zhuo Sun

Zhuo Sun is a PhD researcher at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Her research interests are reputation management for higher education institutions, international...

Melissa Bond

Melissa Bond is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Teaching and University College London’s EPPI Centre, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Qualitative Evidence Synthesis...

The BERA Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Exploring Frontline Support in Educational Research and Practice

Primary maths and the art of making things

Children love to explore the world through construction and creativity, learning through experimentation with objects and materials. It is interesting to reflect on how the act of making, creating...

BERA Annual Conference 2022 – ECR Presentation Award

BERA aims to celebrate and promote the work of our Early Career Researcher Network. We presented a prize to the best Early Career researcher presentation at the conference. The top scoring...

Creating a united literacy research community

Literacy researchers working across different disciplinary traditions often share a core interest in how to support children and young people’s reading experiences and outcomes. Yet despite our...

Elizabeth Foley

Dr Elizabeth Foley grew up in the north of England and read Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University. After working in as a consulting engineer in the steel industry, she went on to study...

Quality and the redescription of social class in education policy

Twelve years ago, Diane Reay argued that neoliberalism in the UK had ‘worked to bury social class’ (Reay, 2012: p. 592). This is not an unproblematic comment: it turns neoliberalism into an...

David Abbott

David Abbott is a Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia, where he has recently completed a PhD on the politics of quality in English education.

Fiona Maine

Fiona Maine is Professor of Language and Literacy in Education at the University of Exeter. She has spent many years working alongside teachers as they develop their literacy practices. Her...

Mélina Valdelièvre

Mélina Valdelièvre is a Senior Education Officer for Equalities at Education Scotland. Mélina started her career as a secondary English teacher and started engaging in anti-racist activism...