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Arunthathi Mahendran

Arunthathi Mahendran was awarded the 2018 BERA Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis Surgeon Education, Engaging with the Immanence of Events Of Practice: An Exploration of the Ontological and...

Sponsors

Why support BERA? The BERA conference is the largest conference in the UK to focus on educational research and one of the largest social sciences conferences of its kind. Supporting BERA means...

Sophina Choudry

Sophina Choudry was awarded the 2017 BERA Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis: Mathematics Capital in the Classroom and Wider Educational Field: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender and Social...

Conference 2018 photos and videos

Click on the photo or the link below to open Flickr to scroll through photos of the BERA Conference 2018 in Newcastle. BERA Conference 2018 Photos CAROL VINCENT University College London Tea...

Keynote Speakers

Louise Archer

Karl Mannheim Professor of sociology of education

Louise Archer’s research focusses on educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to social class, ethnicity and gender. She has conducted research on a wide range of...

Pat Thomson

Professor of Education

Professor Pat Thomson is Professor of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Nottingham. Her current research focuses on creativity, the arts and change in schools and...

Sue Sentance

Dr Sue Sentance was awarded the winner of the 2017 BERA Public Engagement and Impact award for her work on removing the barriers to effective computing education. Dr Sentance conceived and...

Marilyn Cochran-Smith

Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools

Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith is the John E. Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College, where she served as Director of the PhD...

Encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play

BERA has a new Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG)! It has the strategic aim of encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play across...

Conference & Events Committee

The role of the Conference & Events Committee is to: Ensure that the Annual Conference and programme of in-year events operate to the highest academic standards Ensure that the Annual...

Sara Delamont

Sara Delamont was born near Southampton in 1947. She read Social Anthropology at Girton Colleges Cambridge, and did a PhD in Education at Edinburgh. The thesis was an ethnography of ‘St...