Pakistani children make-up a quarter of Birmingham’s school population and will soon become its largest pupil ethnic group. A large number of them leave the local schools each year without the...
The Australian Research Council (ARC) annually awards three-year Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs) to create opportunities for early career researchers to develop their research...
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Kalwant Bhopal has been appointed as the incoming editor of Research Intelligence. Kalwant starts her term with the first issue of 2016 and comes to the...
Theorising student transition Transition is replete within the human world. That is as much to say that it is impossible to entirely ‘stand still’. From one day to the next, one place to...
This Innovation Session that took place at BERA took the form of a workshop/masterclass in researching early childhood using visual methodologies, combining presentations, graffiti and Information...
The English education system is riddled with contradictions and the call for teaching to become more of a research based profession is just one of them. This call raises a number of problems for...
With new students arriving in campuses across the country, now is a good a time as any to think about what it means to be, and to be seen as, a student in the UK. In July the Independent...
The BERA Postgraduate Forum is pleased to announce that BERA has secured a one year MAXQDA license for a BERA postgraduate researcher to utilise.MAXQDA is a professional software for qualitative...
Webinar is now online at: Webinar 2015The internationalisation seminar/webinar series has been running since 2007 as part of an initiative organised by Dr Joanna Al-Youssef, University of...
History is for human self-knowledge… the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teachers us what man has done and thus what man is. (R.G...
As I spend my last days of summer vacation in my classroom preparing for the start of my 25th new school year, I find myself reflecting on past classes, curriculum changes and my beliefs about...
15th-17th September 2015 Queen's University Belfast The BERA conference went back to Belfast after over 15 years since we were last here. Attended by over 700 delegates, this was the first...