Search

Sarah Moore

Sarah is in the fourth year of her doctorate in education at the University of Sheffield. Her background is in history, and she has drawn on her experience of working with oral histories to inform...

Place-responsive pedagogy: The lessons learned from an old oak tree

This episode of the BERA Podcast is the first from our series "Education for our planet and for our future." In this episode Kevin Smith (Cardiff University) interviews Catherine Dunn and Jack...

Using content acquisition podcasts to improve preservice teachers’ understanding of language when referring to people with disabilities

The language that educators use when referring to and addressing students with disabilities is incredibly impactful. Whether negative or positive, language creates a unique environment that can...

Tony Bush

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham and previously held professorial positions at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln and Warwick. He is...

Education for our planet and our future

Climate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within BERA itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed....

Branwen Bingle

Branwen Bingle is head of primary initial teacher education at Newman University. Having completed doctoral research into children’s literature and sociocultural perceptions of teachers, she...

Review of the PhD: open consultation and publication of an evidence review

ESRC has just launched an open consultation to inform their Review of the PhD in the Social Sciences. Through the consultation they have asked to capture views on the strengths and limitations...

Sylvia Ikomi

Sylvia Ikomi has an MA in education. She is a recipient of an Economic and Social Research Council Stuart Hall PhD studentship. She is an early career researcher, higher education lecturer,...

Event Videos

This page features videos and presentations from BERA events

Hannah Wilson

Head of Secondary Teacher Training

Hannah Wilson is the former Executive Headteacher of Aureus Schools, she is currently the Head of Secondary Teacher Training at the University of Buckingham. She is an associate for Values-based...

BERA Research Commission 2018/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

The objectives of this Research Commission are to critically analyse and question the deep influence of GERM’s (Global Education Reform Movement, Sahlberg, 2011) impacts upon the four different...

Richard Budd

Lecturer

I am a Lecturer in Higher Education, and my main research interests relate to three interlinked questions: how higher education as a sector (and idea) works, how organisations in the sector...