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Lars Geer Hammershøj

Associate Professor

Lars Geer Hammershøj is PhD and Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. He has published books and articles about the creativity in education, the Bildung...

Kirsty Devaney

Postgraduate Research Assistant

Kirsty Devaney is a Birmingham based composer, researcher and educator with a passionate for promoting creative music making as something we all have the capacity to do. Her music has been...

Martine Mannion

Martine Mannion is a lecturer, researcher and trainer. Having worked successfully in the IT industry since leaving school, she moved into education 15 years ago, teaching computing at the early...

Children and young people’s mental health: The role of schools

The World Health Organisation (2014) defines mental health as a state of wellbeing in which every individual is able to achieve their own potential and participate in daily life. One in 10...

Samuel Stones

Samuel is a researcher and lecturer in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University and assistant headteacher (curriculum and assessment) at a secondary school and sixth form...

Experience, represent, apply (ERA): A heuristic for digital engagement in the early years

Presenting a powerful new mechanism for encouraging play-based learning that reflects a more up-to-date and holistic view of technology use in the early years.

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

The first BERA Research Commission was Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four jurisdictions, led by...

Tom Lowrie

Tom Lowrie is a centenary professor and the director of the STEM Education Research Centre at the University of Canberra. He has a well-established international research profile in the discipline...

Kevin Larkin

Kevin Larkin is a senior lecturer at Griffith University. His research investigates STEM education in early years education; mathematics education in primary and middle school contexts; and...

BERJ Editors’ Choice Award 2019

The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) Editors’ Choice Award is held annually to recognise the contributions to the field made by articles published across the previous calendar...

Youth activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces

The relationships between youth activism, engagement and education are vitally important in the current context, in which the pressures of globalisation and populism are emerging from and fuelling...

Pedagogies for the ‘dis-engaged’: Who gets what from arts education?

Not all young people get to access arts programmes. For those who do, the benefits have been widely recognised (de Roeper & Savelsberg, 2009; Catterall, 2012). However not all young people...