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BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

Making decisions in educational research: Ethics and methodologies

Into the labyrinth: Choosing the research method/ology

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

As a doctoral researcher, I always have three questions on my mind. The first question is linked to my specific research project, and I wonder if I have chosen the ‘right’ research...

How who I am shapes what I do

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

It was with a degree of trepidation that I presented at the BERA ECR Network symposium in April 2023. Initially I thought this would be a great event just to attend and listen to the experiences...

Why posthumanism? And why now? Ethics and method for complex times

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

I first engaged with critical posthuman theory in 2015, at Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School at the University of Utrecht. At the time, I was working in teacher training, preparing people...

Exploring creativity in higher education: Could postqualitative inquiry be used, and if so, how would it work?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2023

In this blog post I explore new methods for understanding creative learning experiences in higher education. My research focuses on how creative art forms, including design and performing arts,...

ECR Symposium Series 2024: Being a creative researcher: creative thinking, decision making and problem solving in research

Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is targeted at early career researchers (ECRs) – be they current Masters or Doctoral students or those in the early post-doctoral phase....

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Presenting at an e-festival: Experiences of an early career researcher

In this blog post, I share my experiences of presenting at the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) e-Festival. After outlining the initial application, the run-up to the event and the...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

How we teach our teachers: The plight of initial teacher education in England and its global impact

‘Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.’ (Barzun, 1954, p. 12)  As it was then for Jacques Barzun, so it is now for the state of teaching in England. How we...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

ECR Coffee Hour – Spring 2024

This BERA ECR Network’s coffee hour gave the opportunity to find out more about the ECR Network and its activities as well as getting to know a little more about the team behind it. There were...