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Jack McGeehan

Jack is a Project Coordinator for the Salford Foundation’s ‘Steps’ program, which focuses on preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Prior to this he helped coordinate the ‘Boys to Men’...

Sara Jayne Long

Sara Jayne Long is an inter-disciplinary researcher interested in health, wellbeing and education outcomes of children and young people. Adopting a range of qualitative and quantitative methods,...

Annual Conference Bursaries

We offer various bursaries to attend the conference.  Please visit the official bursary page for more information on current bursaries open. More information and apply

Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education

10 years of the BERA Blog

Over the past few years, I have carried out extensive fieldwork in secondary schools in England, where my focus has been the beliefs about spoken language on display in classrooms, corridors and...

The Overlaps and Intersections of Playwork and Youth Work – Virtual Event

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Ana Salcedo

Ana Salcedo joined BERA in 2025 as the Conference & Events Administrator. In this role, she supports the Conference and Events Manager with all aspects of event preparation. Her tasks range from...

Developing biliteracy through a traditional, cross-linguistic pedagogical approach

Cross-linguistic pedagogy, which involves using multiple languages in classrooms to foster literacy development by providing a ‘bridge between languages,’ has recently gained significant...

A century of educating Britain’s political elite: Privilege masquerading as meritocracy?

In this blog post, we examine the UK secondary schools and universities that educated Cabinet ministers between 1922 and 2022. The UK seems widely relevant, as every country possesses elite...

Sharon Feeney

Sharon Feeney teaches Strategic Management at Technological University Dublin. Sharon is the Head of Learning Development in the College of Business at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland....

John Hogan

John Hogan teaches Irish politics in Technological University Dublin. John is a Research Fellow and Politics Lecturer in the College of Business. He is also a founding director of the College’s...

Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England?

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

In July 2024 a newly elected Labour government announced an independent curriculum and assessment review for England spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5. The purpose of this exercise...

Developing student teachers’ confidence to teach languages through an authentic microteaching exercise

Compulsory languages teaching for primary teachers in Scotland Following the introduction of the Scottish Government’s 1+2 language policy in 2012, all primary teachers in Scotland are expected...