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BERA Conference 2017

Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2017 which will be held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, Tuesday 5th September 2017 – Thursday 7th September 2017. Abstract deadline: 31st January...

Becoming and being an early career researcher – identity, practice and serendipity

Early career researchers have, until relatively recently, been invisible in the eyes of policy makers, with very little attention, historically, paid to their induction and professional...

Educational research: which way now?

BERA was established 43 years ago, in 1974, at the height of the postwar expansion of education, and at the onset of a long period of controversy and reform of education that has continued ever...

PESP Invisible College 2017

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This event is sponsored by: The Invisible College...

BERA Conference 2017

Brighton

The BERA Conference 2017 was held on the 4th-7th September 2017 at the University of Sussex. Keynote speakers included: Professor Gerry Czerniawski, Professor Gary McCulloch, Dr Nicola Rollock,...

BERA Conference 2017 – Keynote Lectures

For educational researchers the BERA Annual Conference is an important date in their professional year. It provides the opportunity to: network with existing colleagues support new...

Why might BERA wish to thank Margaret Thatcher?

What does BERA owe to Margaret Thatcher?  It sounds like a weird pub quiz question, and may have an even weirder answer.  When BERA’s inaugural conference met in Birmingham in April 1974,...

BERA Annual General Meeting 2017

The 42st BERA AGM will take place at 5:00pm on Monday 4th September 2017. It will be held in the Noblese Room, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront. All members are invited to attend, please ensure...

The value of Literacy as a Social Practice approach to exploring young children’s experience of being taught to read and write in school

Over the last thirty years in English and Welsh State primary education, successive governments have placed increasing emphasis on ‘raising standards’ in literacy. Children’s attainment or...

Literature’s lasting impression: what makes shared reading of novels powerful?

The twelve-month research project Literature’s Lasting Impression⃰ investigates a defining convention of classroom literary study, shared novel reading. Most people remember ‘reading round...

Critically Examining the Emergence of Teach First

In the latest issue of the British Educational Research Journal, Allen and Allnutt (2017) assess, using longitudinal data, the impact of Teach First teachers on secondary pupils’ outcomes. ...

Learning about learning and teaching through collaborative observation

Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...